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Snatcher MSX Installation Help!

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:19 am
by LuffyDan
I'm hoping this is the proper place for this question but, if not, feel free to boot me.

I'm not really tech savvy or anything, so any elementary guides or plain English will help just fine but, here is my problem.

I recently downloaded the Essential Snatcher bundle, and I've been really eager to play through both MSX games, (SD and the original Snatcher). However, the read me file on how to physically install the games through the emulator are not worded in the best fashion (no offense to the author). I really can't stand playing off of the .dsk files because, just like playing off of the real disks, it takes forever for things to load. Can anyone out there give me a proper installation guide/method to enjoy these games to the fullest?

Thanks guys.

-LuffyDan

P.S.

On a side note, I also downloaded pekonds. I can't seem to get Snatcher original to work on there either. I can load disk 0 but the option to install or play the game off of the disk doesn't come up? Any ideas/advice on this extra issue?

Re: Snatcher MSX Installation Help!

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:02 am
by midori_fox
the translator suggests a specific msx emulator
http://www.caetano.eng.br/snatcher/

my readme says

รพรพรพ 6.0 Installation

To play the game you just need to boot with DISK0. Anyway, you
should like to play it on harddisk. Playing on floppy is just annoying.
There are two ways of installing it on hardisk: manual and automatic.

1) Automatic
- Boot from your harddisk MSX-DOS2.
- Select the drive to install and create the directory. p.e.:
C: [enter]
MD SNATCHER [enter]
- Place DISK0 on the floppy and change to it. p.e.:
A: [enter]
- Use INSTALL.BAT to install it. p.e.:
INSTALL A: C: \SNATCHER [enter]
- Follow the instructions on the screen, when the installer
asks for other disks, do it.
- If everything is ok, you can play typing:
SNATCHER [enter]
- If the game doesn't run or doesn't seem to be working ok,
try the manual method.

2) Manual
- Boot from your harddisk MSX-DOS2.
- Select the drive to install and create the directory. p.e.:
C: [enter]
MD SNATCHER [enter]
CD SNATCHER [enter]
- Copy these files from disk to harddisk. p.e.:
COPY A:DSK2SAV.COM C: [enter]
COPY A:FDSAVE.COM C: [enter]
COPY A:SAV2DSK.COM C: [enter]
COPY A:SNATCHER.COM C: [enter]
COPY SNATCHER.SCR C: [enter]
**DO NOT** copy SNATCHER.000!
- Place DISK1 in the drive and dump it. p.e.:
FDSAVE A: SNATCHER.001
- Place DISK2 in the drive and dump it. p.e.:
FDSAVE A: SNATCHER.002
- Place DISK3 in the drive and dump it. p.e.:
FDSAVE A: SNATCHER.003
- If everything is ok, you can play typing:
SNATCHER [enter]
- If the game doesn't run or doesn't seem to be working ok, try
to pray, offer a virgin to the gods or something. You may also
try to contact me. =^)
daniel@caetano.eng.br

Re: Snatcher MSX Installation Help!

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 10:27 am
by LuffyDan
I'm gonna' sound like such an idiot here but, how do I boot from my hard disk? Does that mean going through a command prompt and finding the MSX-DOS2 rom?

Re: Snatcher MSX Installation Help!

Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:21 am
by midori_fox
mmm idk lol

i think it just means load the disk 2 file