How do I run Supercharger roms on an emulator?

[Keatah]

I'm talking about the multi-load ones like Escape From the Mindmaster and DragonStomper? I can load the 1st rom, but how do we retain continuity between loads? Or how do we even get the second or third binary running? I looked through the dox on the stella-gets-a-new-brain disc. Nada. I'll go through this message board thoroughly next.

[Nukey Shay]

Why not use the complete game?

[Keatah]

I seem to remember, when I was a kid playing this stuff, that at certain points in the adventure style games it asked you to continue loading by un-pausing the cassette player or playing. This would then load the next part of the game.

 

For example, with party mix, you load it, then it says "stop tape", you play the game, then it asks you to load the next segment. The Stella-gets-a-new-brain manual says to do exactly that too.

 

Are there .bin files where all segments are combined into one?

Edited February 19, 2009 by Keatah

[Keatah]

Sorry for being a nag, I found the single load 'version' of the games. Thanks for the hint.

[Buzbard]

If you're using Stella all you have to do is concatenate the files.

 

In Windows open a command prompt and use the copy command for example Party Mix is broken into three 9k files, just put them together like this:

 

copy /b party1.bin+party2.bin+party3.bin partymix.bin

 

The /b lets the copy command know that they are binary files

Replace party1.bin, party2.bin & party3.bin with your file names and make sure there are no spaces between the file names and the + signs

The destination name partymix.bin in the above example will be created by the copy command it should be 25k when finished

You'll need a space between the last file name and the destination name

Edited February 19, 2009 by Buzbard

[alex_79]

Yes, emulators require multiload supercharger games to be concatenated in a single file.

Note that Party Mix is NOT a multiload game: the three parts are actually separate games. If you concatenate them in a single file you will only be able to play the first one.

[Keatah]

I also did not know you could concatenate the files into one using dos copy command. Neat. Thanks to all I can now finish Escape from the Mindmaster! ha!

[user42]

Note that Party Mix is NOT a multiload game: the three parts are actually separate games. If you concatenate them in a single file you will only be able to play the first one.

 

I did not know this....

 

Thanks for the info.

[Buzbard]

Yes, emulators require multiload supercharger games to be concatenated in a single file.

Note that Party Mix is NOT a multiload game: the three parts are actually separate games. If you concatenate them in a single file you will only be able to play the first one.

 

Right, I knew that, must have been a brain fart!

[Buzbard]

Oops!

Edited February 20, 2009 by Buzbard