05489: x68000 [aquales]: game not loading anymore

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
05489	Crash/Freeze	Critical (emulation)	Always	Apr 7, 2014, 14:01	Apr 14, 2014, 04:39

Tester	Tatsuya79	View Status	Public	Platform	MESS (Official Binary)
Assigned To		Resolution	No change required	OS	Windows Vista/7/8 (64-bit)
Status [?]	Closed			Driver	sharp/x68k.cpp
Version	0.153	Fixed in Version		Build	64-bit
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	05489: x68000 [aquales]: game not loading anymore
Description	aquales displays "save data not found" and then "disk not ready : drive 1" during loading stops here
Steps To Reproduce	run aquales from softlist mess64 x68000 aquales
Additional Information	disk 2 is not mounted anymore after this bug while all 3 disks were mounted during the boot / loading I did not manage to mount the disks manually after the error, some floppy drives don't display a mount option at that point The recent X68K bus fix ((mess) x68k: rework bus errors by crazyc) did a great job to load many games reliably now in MESS, but this one (aquales) was playable before (you had to boot it several times for it to work though) and seems impossible now.
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Regression Version	0.153
Affected Sets / Systems	x68000 [aquales]

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No.10567 crazyc Developer Apr 14, 2014, 03:06	Works for me if it's started with disk 3 in the second drive. I don't know what disk 2 is for or if the softlist should be changed.
No.10568 etabeta Developer Apr 14, 2014, 04:39	I will fix this later today (to make the game more user friendly), but it is not really a bug as a general rule, the shortcut MESS system gamename is thought to be a gentle introduction to emulation of consoles/cart games for new users. using it for disk games is not suggested at all because it is prone to this kind of errors: the emulator just tries to load as many disks as disk drives are available. for instance every game requiring to have only the first disk mounted at start would fail for home computer games it would be considered a bug only if it would fail to load with MESS system -flop1 gamename -flop2 gamename:flopX (with X=3 in this case, since aquales expects the third disk to be mounted)

No.10567

crazyc

Developer

Apr 14, 2014, 03:06

Works for me if it's started with disk 3 in the second drive. I don't know what disk 2 is for or if the softlist should be changed.

No.10568

etabeta

Developer

Apr 14, 2014, 04:39

I will fix this later today (to make the game more user friendly), but it is not really a bug

as a general rule, the shortcut

MESS system gamename

is thought to be a gentle introduction to emulation of consoles/cart games for new users.

using it for disk games is not suggested at all because it is prone to this kind of errors: the emulator just tries to load as many disks as disk drives are available.
for instance every game requiring to have only the first disk mounted at start would fail

for home computer games it would be considered a bug only if it would fail to load with

MESS system -flop1 gamename -flop2 gamename:flopX

(with X=3 in this case, since aquales expects the third disk to be mounted)