Running Cotton x68000 in Retropie/Retroarch

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CecilMcW00t
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Running Cotton x68000 in Retropie/Retroarch

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Hi everyone, I hope this topic is allowed here. Definitely not asking where to get it. Just need some technical help.

Okay, I'm using the lr-px68k emulator and most games I try I can get to run. One game I really want to play is Cotton Fantastic Night Dreams. However, I am not having much luck. It is two disks. I load disk 1 into FDD0 and disk 2 into FDD1. When I reset, the game boots to the Electronic Arts logo and stays there playing music. I thought it was loading, but I left it for about 5 minutes and nothing ever happened. Is there something special I have to do to get this to run? I came across a topic while searching online of someone saying they had to install the game by typing in something but I don't seem to be able to reach a terminal screen in px68k. Just a basic emulation menu where I can swap disks in and out.

Any help would be appreciated, especially if you have been able to get this game running on this emulator.
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Re: Running Cotton x68000 in Retropie/Retroarch

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I had to put both disks in each drive, then reset, and it worked.
There was a message about needing 4MB of RAM, so try to put at least that amount in "core options".
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are you trying to load dim files? try an xdf version, px68k's support for dim files seems to be pretty iffy.
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Tatsuya79 wrote:I had to put both disks in each drive, then reset, and it worked.
There was a message about needing 4MB of RAM, so try to put at least that amount in "core options".
Before I saw your post, I ended up grabbing a different revision of the rom and it finally loaded up.
e_tank wrote:are you trying to load dim files? try an xdf version, px68k's support for dim files seems to be pretty iffy.
Yup, they are dim files. I think I will do that in the future. I've noticed random little weird things with certain games.
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