Title says it all! Just translated “Jackie Chan in Project A” to English, while also improving its title screen a little bit 🙂

Get it on “Our Games” page 🙂

Moon Patrol is an excellent MSX game, an arcade adaptation well made: nice music, great graphics for an MSX1 game… but the keyboard controls were awful.

But not anymore! I change the keyboard routine (which now is 13 bytes shorter!) and now you can use the space bar to shoot (both up and forwards) and the up arrow key to jump!

Get the game in the “Our games” section!

Did you know that Zilog (the manufactor behind MSX’s Z80 CPU) has a mascot? A super-hero?

Captain Zilog! And he has 3 (recent) comics online – available to read, download and even order!

Check it out!

Some time ago, someone had the idea to make a FM version of the game “Hype”.

Years went by, and nothing…

Recently something called NandemoFM was released, a tool to redirect the PSG sound through FM – but it only works on games that uses the MSX BIOS.

Hype access PSG through ports, so NandemoFM didn’t work on it… at least until now!

I took the game and converted it’s calls from direct writing on PSG to use the BIOS! This way, NandemoFM works, and the game now runs with FM sound!

The bad side, is that Z80 can’t handle Hype + NandemoFM without some sound distortions – so it was necessary to use R800 and DRAM to achieve the correct results.

The game ROM is available at the “our games” page – and don’t forget to set the ROM to load as ASCII8 mapper, otherwise it won’t work!

See the game running on FM:

Thanks to the efforts of Daniel Caetano, who has been dumping several disks from Cobra Software, some new MegaRAM games appeared:

• Baseball
• Baseball 2
• Gary-O-King
• Hajafuin
• Tanikawa’s Shogi Ninam II
• The Cockpit

Visit the MegaRAM Project website to download them!

An old video where Bill Gates and Kay Nishi are talking about MSX!

A TV add from “Mesbla” (an old department store, which doesn’t exist anymore), selling MSX Hotbit at CR$3.400.000,00 in the 80s!

Did you know there is a cartoon, made by Konami and Sony, where Pentarou, the penguin from Antartic Adventure and Penguin Adventure, is the star?

There is one!

It is a little strange (it starts in the middle of a war, penguins shooting machine guns…), it’s all in Japanese (is there a subtitled version anywhere?) – but it is at least fun to watch!

Edit: subtitled version found! 🙂

MSX Files is celebrating 15 years online!

And nothing better to do it, than releasing a game, so here it is!

Have you ever seen this screenshot below?

Not if you’re playing “The Munsters” converted from Spectrum on MSX! The game had some corrupted data (or the game somehow corrupts itself) – but I was able to edit the game, in a way so the missing screens gets really similar to the ones in the original, and now the game is fully playable!

Inside the DSK available there are 2 versions of the game, both patched: one that runs on MSX1 and another that runs on MSX2 and above without problems – but don’t worry too much about it, the BASIC loader detects your MSX version and loads the correct file accordingly!

Get the game in our games section!

And another year goes by – now 14 years that MSX Files posts about information and news on the MSX world!

And as a gift to all users of the site, we made available to all the English translation of Laser Squad!

Waste no time and get this incredible game, which was the predecessor of XCOM – UFO: Enemy Unknown!

Here in Brazil there was a MSX game called “Alcatraz a fuga impossível” (Alcatraz the impossible escape). A fun adventure game that was both sold, and had its listing published on MSX books at the time.

Inspired by the game, Icon Games developed “Escape from Alcatraz” a game with the same premise: you’re a prisoner on Alcatraz and must escape!

There is also an article on gamedev.net explaining a little bit of the development process.

The game is both on portuguese and english, available on iOS and Android and the best part: it’s totally free!

Paulo Maluf, a well known member of the brazilian MSX community made 10 disk interface carts – compatible with both 3.5″ and 5.25″ disks, which can be used on any MSX!

The interfaces are being sold for por R$69 + shipping (more or less US$34.50), and can be aquired here!

If you’re interested, you’d better hurry – only 10 cartridges were manufactured!

Anyone who tried to play “The Munsters” on MSX, probably faced this bug: when the first level ends, the game freezes.

The problem was the first room on the second stage – which is completely corrupted even in the original tape version!

The first attempt to fix this problem was to look into the existing Spectrum versions, hoping to find the room data. It was in vain, since the room format used on MSX is totally different from the Spectrum version!

But wasn’t this a conversion…? Apparently the game was heavily modified: on MSX there are less graphics, in the 2nd stage two rooms are repeated (removing 2 rooms from the original in the Spectrum – and exactly one of those was the one corrupted!) – the dragon on 3rd level is green (on Spectrum it’s the same color as the car) and the game in general has less graphics than the Spectrum version – all to make the game and it’s music fit into MSX’s 64k of RAM.

The solution then was to make from scratch a new room for level 2, “similar” to the original on Spectrum (not identical, since the MSX version doesn’t have all the graphics!). With that’s done, the game is running normally, as you can see below:

There are still small things to fix, but once that’s done, the game will be available here on the site!

It seems like yesterday, but the site is online for 13 years!

Expect some news soon 🙂

On April 14th there will be another meeting: MSX Rio! As always, it will be held at SESC Engenho de Dentro – 1661 Amaro Cavalcanti Avenue – Engenho de Dentro.

At the meeting a new MSX convertion, made by Icon Games, will be presented: Puzznic!
Below a video of the game:

See you there!

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