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FMSXBOX MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ Emulator port for XBox v3

http://xport.xbox-scene.com

More big thanks to J-RED for the excellent skin!

Features :

- Emulates the MSX/MSX2/MSX2+

- Excellent compatibility - ported from FMSX-SDL

- Loads Cartridge and Disk images

- MSX-Music

- MSX-Audio

- USB Keyboard support

- ZIP support

- Cheat system - Search/Create your own cheat codes (see notes)

- Favorites list

- Netplay

- Resizable game screen

- Save Game management - delete save game files

- 480p, 720p, 1080i support

- Skin-able :
   - Backgrounds
   - Sounds
   - Background Music
   - Sprites
   - Text position (right/left/center, top/bottom/center)
   - Text color, select bar color
   - Font
   - Fading speed
   - Screenshot position
   - Can specify 2 sprites to surround the selected menu option
   - Option to have a transparent select-bar color (from select-color menu)
   - Can flip sprites horizontally/vertically
   - Can set motion_x and motion_y variables for sprites
   - Sprites can loop continuously or just once
   - If you want to change the way something looks in this new UI,
     chances are that you can change it via the Configuration menu.

- Samba/NetBIOS sharing support (read roms from your PC)

- Relax Network Sharing (read roms from your PC)

- Play MP3 or M3U playlists in the background
  (Can also read MP3/M3U from across Samba/Relax shares.)

- User definable save directory.  If you don't like the default of
  E:SAVESFMSXBOX you can change it via the FMSXBOX.INI file

- Take in-game screenshots and display them on the game selection list

- New UI feature - auto-screenshot capture mode.  When enabled, the emu
  will start taking screenshots at a user-defined interval.  Useful for
  ripping sprites/animation.

- Hardware filtering options : Point, Bilinear, Trilinear, Anisotropic

- Graphics filters :
    + 2xSai
    + Super 2xSai
    + Eagle
    + Super Eagle
    + SuperScale
    + AdvanceMame 2x
    + Simple 2x
    + 2xSai Scanline
    + Super 2xSai Scanline
    + Eagle Scanline
    + Super Eagle Scanline
    + SuperScale Scanline

- Record/Playback feature - record your gameplay in the emu and then
  play it back again.  Record up to 10 minutes of gameplay.

- Every single in-game command is fully customizable on any of the
  four joypad controllers.

- Map any emulator or UI command to a single button or a combination of
  two buttons.  (e.g. RTrigger+LTrigger = Save State)

- Autofire capabilities for any emulator button on any controller

- One-button combos (define a series of emulator commands to be played
  back when you press a user-definable XBox controller combination.)
  (E.g. Press RTrigger+LTrigger to execute the command string
  A,B,A,B,Up,Down,Left,Right)

- Traverse any directory on any drive ( Continue selecting the parent
  directory entry on the file selection list to get the drive selection
  list.  Selectable drives are C, D, E, F, R, X, Y, Z, and SMB.
  R is the CDROM drive.  SMB is the samba share you have defined in your
  FMSXBOX.ini file.)  Press Y from any file-listing screen to go up one
  directory level.

- All UI commands (save state, load state, screenshot, etc) can be
  invoked from the Options/Pause menu as well as in-game via your
  customized joypad mappings.

- Can be invoked from a command-line to directly run a game from a front-end
  or dashboard and bypass the user-selection screens. (Only if the frontend
  or dashboard supports this feature.)

- Can return to the launching program *if* the launching program supports this
  feature.  For example, if the custom-launch routines are incorporated into
  a new frontend, that frontend could launch FMSXBOX and when you exit
  FMSXBOX, that frontend can be automatically reloaded.  

[Heet]

Sweeeeeeet!!   Like the website too.    

[feflicker]

It is to the point now where things are being ported that I don't even have roms for  

Once again, nice job xport.  

[Dahak]

Cool. All the old xport emulators now have the GUI (except for Bochs, which isn't likely to be updated). I feel a weird sense of closure...  

[infidelity]

Sorry guys, but i'm a newbie to this particular emu. I have no idea what it is, what it emulates, what kind of games, etc. Someone told me somewhere it plays sega master system games, so, i go and try to play a sega master system game, and then i get this blue basic screen. It looked like the old tandy color computer screen from the 1980's   So, i'm completely lost. I hope you'll explain what it is, and what it does. I thank you for your help......

[XPort]

From the included txt file:

QUOTE

- Emulates the MSX/MSX2/MSX2+

Use google:

Search for MSX

3rd link down is Ultimate MSX FAQ

Also from the included txt file:

QUOTE

Find some MSX games here: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msx/games/

I don't think you tried very hard to find the information you wanted.

[tales]

Nice job again XPORT.

But it's still impossible to configure a 2nd controller. The 1st one control all the others.

So we can't play with 2 person some amazing games like warroid, ping-pong, etc...  

Has someone any idea/solution about this problem?

Tks!

[plasma1974]

Nice work XPORT.. i've got 2 small comments: 1) the game sound is a bit low and cannot be adjusted with right analog stick 2) the option to configure emulator settings does not work.

[althena]

Thank you very much for this great Emu XPort, I allready spent a lot of time with it  

I only had a few problems with Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2:Solid Snake. I have to use the MSX Buttons F1 up to F2 for example to switch weapons or using the codec. But I could not find these commands under "Configure Controllers". Is ist still possible somehow with a Joypad or do I need a USB-Adapter and a keyboard??
The games seemed to me a little bit to fast, especially in Vampire Killer the some enimies seemed to be running, or could this be because they were Pal-Games??

But I do not wish to complain, thank you very much again
(And sorry, if my English sounds a little bit strange, but I live in a not English spoken country where we are said to drink a lot of    

[BlackListedCard]

I checked out the sites for more information on the MSX/MSX2/MSX2+, for 1984.   The games were amazing.  I really like the lazer disc games.

Nice, I did not know it existed.

[BlackListedCard]

I checked out the sites for more information on the MSX/MSX2/MSX2+, for 1984.   The games were amazing.  I really like the lazer disc games.

Nice, I did not know it existed.

[XPort]

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plasma1974: 1) the game sound is a bit low and cannot be adjusted with right analog stick 2) the option to configure emulator settings does not work.

I'm aware of the sound volume issue.  I'm fairly certain that all of the emulator volume variables are set to max.  The xbox hardware volume is also set to max.  The only current solution is to turn up the volume on your TV.  You can turn down the volume of the background MP3 to even things out.

The "configure emulator" option doesn't do anything.  It's a left-over from some other port.  Ignore it.  Whatever you're looking to configure is found somewhere else.

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althena: I only had a few problems with Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2:Solid Snake. I have to use the MSX Buttons F1 up to F2 for example to switch weapons or using the codec. But I could not find these commands under "Configure Controllers" The games seemed to me a little bit to fast, especially in Vampire Killer the some enimies seemed to be running, or could this be because they were Pal-Games??

Configure Controllers -> Change Emulator Definitions
Select one of the buttons you are currently not using and select F1 or F2, etc.  Now that emulator-defined button can be assigned to an XBox button(s) via the "Change Joypad Mappings" menu.

Re: speed - I'll look into it.

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But it's still impossible to configure a 2nd controller. The 1st one control all the others.

I'll look into it.

[althena]

Thank you very much for the fast reply, I will try it out