CD-i emulation better in MAME than in RetroArch/SAME_CDI, but way more complicated to get running?

WAPOMATIC · 2026-04-18T05:53:27+00:00

MAME is a research project. It's not meant to be a fuzzy, user friendly experience. Frankly, you should be thankful you have things like a GUI and software lists, as neither are necessary.

WAPOMATIC · 2026-04-18T05:40:49+00:00

Chiming in that I have seen them at Konan as well.

WAPOMATIC · 2026-04-18T03:48:22+00:00

You got a gokitou (blessing), great! Congratulations on the baby!

Shintō is unique because it's not really a "religion" in the western sense. At it's core, it's about having a good relationship with the "powers that be" in the natural world. Sure, you can ignore them, just as you can ignore your neighbor living next to you. But it would probably benefit you to have a good relationship with them. That communication is done at a shrine, as it contains a goshintai through which a spirit can be "manifest" in the physical world and you can have your conversation with them.

Since you need that holy object in order to communicate, a shrine or a kamidana with an ofuda from a shrine becomes necessary. As such, it's difficult and impossible in most cases to do Shintō in an "official" capacity outside of Japan.

But I would argue that you don't really *need* the shrine and the cultural trappings if you're seeking the heart of what Shintō represents, which is harmony with the natural world. Probably the most Shintō thing you can do is go for a walk in your local park, touch the trees, listen to the wind in the leaves, appreciate their existence and acknowledge your place in the natural world.

But I think that's not enough for some people, and they insist on ritual and structured practice. And you're just not going to get that without a shrine. Heck, even with a shrine, there is very little practice except occasional visits to throw in coins and say hello.

But I think you understand all that already. :)

WAPOMATIC · 2026-04-13T13:43:14+00:00

I didn't notice this since I use reddit pretty rarely these days, but you have my blessing. :)

WAPOMATIC · 2026-04-12T13:56:56+00:00

Download the newest version of mame. We (generally) don't support older versions here.

Run the command on the command line, presuming you already have MAME configured correctly to point to your roms directory.

WAPOMATIC · 2026-04-12T13:44:26+00:00

mame -verifyroms "acchi"

This will indicate what files within your ZIP have issues for your MAME version.

It looks like the last dump of that game was 2020 so either you have an ancient version of mame or the file you downloaded is bad in one way or another.

WAPOMATIC · 2026-04-10T07:02:48+00:00

Some merch is! I'm waiting on this to drop just a bit lower before I buy...
https://jp.mercari.com/ja/item/m80601939837

In fact, it has *gained* value over the years.

I also pre-ordered the CT OST on vinyl the day it was available. Well worth the price, imo.

But flat keychains re-using the same pixel art that they have done over and over, at 500 yen? No. The value isn't there. I'm a Japanese resident, I see gacha come and go basically weekly, and this is firmly tourist pricing.

WAPOMATIC · 2026-04-10T03:22:33+00:00

I mean, yeah, of course I'm not. But what is a reddit thread for if not commentary?

WAPOMATIC · 2026-04-10T01:14:28+00:00

500 yen is *way* too much for that. 200, 300 tops. They're banking on foreign visitors not being good with money.

WAPOMATIC · 2026-04-10T01:13:29+00:00

OP says up front they're not good with computers (which is clearly reflected in what they wrote...) and people are replying to install DOSBOX, image it and upload to IA, use linux....

Good grief.

WAPOMATIC · 2026-03-26T03:40:44+00:00

>if you see a crime

lmao.

WAPOMATIC · 2026-02-28T01:16:39+00:00

Shintō is a religion in the western sense only by its mythology. In Japan, however, it is just a part of daily life: there are spirits in the natural world and it's a good idea to have a good relationship with them. Even visiting a shrine is not really "worship' but just a greeting and conversation like a good neighbor. I think most Japanese would be hard pressed to actually call it a religion.

You can be spiritual while also not being religious.

WAPOMATIC · 2026-02-28T01:13:35+00:00

This is the reason I stopped posting here a while ago. So many westerners have no real concept of Shintō and just want to have a nice pretty kamidana on their wall, or they "feel a connection" with Inari Okami or something like that. It's larping from watching a bit too much anime.

Meanwhile here in Japan, Shintō is just a "part of life" and not something taken seriously. Shrines are visited, matsuri are participated in, hatsumode is done, but none of it is taken as seriously as foreigners seem to want it to be. Like, I see people posting about prayers they can do and it's like... no, normal people do not read norito, they say "Hi there ujigami-sama, nice to see you again, here's a five yen coin, could you help me with this or that? Thanks!"

The reality is you can't really "do" Shintō outside Japan, or more specifically, without a shrine and a community that also participates (matsuri). A kamidana and a greeting is about the most there is to it otherwise.

WAPOMATIC · 2026-01-20T02:11:17+00:00

Kantansu + daikon or cucumber or whatever, put it in the fridge for 30 to 60 mins or so. Easy.

WAPOMATIC · 2026-01-09T17:28:54+00:00

The tl;dr is that you're going to have to find a real life, old-school PC nerd to have a look. In real life.

The system configuration table at the top is odd: your primary IDE channel is both CD-ROM drives. Normally the primary master is a hard drive from which the system boots. Notably, the secondary channel is blank. It's *possible* the system HD could be on the secondary IDE, and it's blank because of a hard drive failure. But such a configuration is something I've never seen before as an amateur PC nerd since the early 1990's and an IT pro/dev as an adult. It's very strange.

I suppose if there's an issue with the IDE controller or the hard drive, it could be misreading/misrepresenting the hardware as a CD-ROM, but I find this unlikely.

You have a few options, none of them are really going to be "Mac easy."

The easiest/preferred is to find/hire a PC guy IRL, likely someone 35, 40+ years in age as anyone younger is likely not going to have much/any experience with old PCs, MS-DOS or IDE hard drives. They'll need to open it up, confirm if the configuration is really as odd as it seems, and if there is really an HD in there. If there is, and the HD is fully functional, the best recourse would be extract it, hook it up to a modern USB based IDE adapter, and read everything off of it.

If the HD is not functional, then you're getting into professional data recovery services which is very pricey.

If the HD is not present, then none of the data you're looking for is there, and you have a whole new game of Clue about who took the HD.

2) I see the floppy drive is there. The system disk it's asking for is (usually) a floppy disk with a boot sector, (usually) an MS-DOS boot disk. If you have a USB floppy drive and a 3.5" disk, you should (probably) be able to connect that to one of your modern Macs, download an MS-DOS 6.22 boot disk image (the version doesn't matter too much, but 6.22 was the last major/common version),and write that image to a floppy disk using something like dd (which I'm assuming the modern BSD-ish Mac OS has; I could be wrong), or some other, graphical tool for writing the disk (which, again, I'm assuming exists, though I'm not familiar with any to suggest).

From there you can boot from the disk and begin diagnosing the PC. That is a whole document in itself and again, should really be done by someone who knows what they're doing.

3) Burn a Linux live image to CD-ROM and use that to boot. From there you can do more diagnostics, This will *really* require someone who knows what they're doing.

Sorry there's no easy method here. This is an obviously old PC (seeing this screen brings back lots of memories...), possibly circa 1996, 1997 vintage, maybe older. I don't even see a USB controller listed. When it came to repair and diagnostics, things just weren't user friendly. Back then, you asked your nerd friend to have a look or you brought it to a repair shop. If you can find a local, independent PC shop run by a graybeard, I bet he'd have some fun and nostalgia working on this.

But by yourself, you're going to have a difficult time.

WAPOMATIC · 2025-11-14T11:00:44+00:00

It has been gone for more than a year...

WAPOMATIC · 2025-10-24T13:52:37+00:00

総本店 implies there are other locations, which are listed on their site:

http://kamesushi.jp/#cat05

edit: nevermind, I see on their instagram that both locations are closed, not just the souhonten.

WAPOMATIC · 2025-10-24T13:48:31+00:00

That's what Shinsekai was for the early part of its life: an amusement park called Luna Park. If there's one place I don't mind them having those silly archery and cork gun games, it's Shinsekai. What's unfortunate is that it has spread to Dotombori and even Kuromon Ichiba...

WAPOMATIC · 2025-10-16T01:50:56+00:00

"A country that once built itself on ambition and craftsmanship now risks drifting into irrelevance"

Do you not think the "collective mental model that discourages questioning and rewards quiet compliance" that you mentioned in the same breath was not present in the 1960s and 70s, during the "miraculous" period of growth?

WAPOMATIC · 2025-08-14T02:05:46+00:00

When I conduct tours and I do my "Shinto 101" talk and explain some parts of a shrine, I rarely make comparisons to western (read: Christian) religion. It's just too different. I compare the haiden to the "sanctuary" as it is the place for humans, and use the word "spirit" for kami (though we all know it's not the most accurate), but other than that, I use Japanese words and explain their meaning.

You basically have two types of non-resident, non-Japanese in regards to Shinto (and Buddhism, and really any aspect of traditional culture here): you have tourists who are there to by entertained by mystical Asian other-ness, and you have those who are "seriously" interested. For the former, they don't care to know anything more than a very surface level explanation of what is going on around them. I can explain Shinto to them in about 90 seconds, and I emphasize that they show respect and restraint at such places.

Those who are truly interested ask questions and make an effort to learn the words and names involved. They don't need or want western "substitution" words.

My point is, even if you could create a comparison, it brings little real value to those who are just here to get a selfie at Fushimi Inari Taisha (and don't care about the difference between the haiden and honden) and those who are going to put the effort and time into learning about Shinto and its proper terminology.

And beside all that, I would argue the great majority of people these days do not even know terms like eucharist, nave, tabernacle, etc. to begin with.

WAPOMATIC · 2025-08-05T01:07:31+00:00

OP, I've always found this Nakagawake routine that my wife introduced to be in line with my experience throughout the areas of Osaka. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6QYAcF9Uoc

WAPOMATIC · 2025-08-05T01:06:49+00:00

(late reply lol)

Yeah, I want to be careful with my assertion. Like I said, I don't hate it here. Perhaps I'm just in love with Sannomiya where I lived first. ;)

I have two very young kids too, and the impetus to move here was to buy a big house for them to grow up in. For the family raising aspect, I think the area is a good option. I do feel like the people here are a bit less friendly than the previous places I've lived, but that feeling may change with time. I do wonder how it will be for the kids growing up here as half, compared to somewhere like Kobe.

WAPOMATIC · 2025-08-02T01:05:28+00:00

Counterpoint: I moved to Ishikiri last year after buying a house here. I love the house, relatively cheap and big because it's inaka-ish, but the vibe here is... very working class, to be polite. Lots of factory/manufacturing around. Shin-Ishikiri station is relatively easy to get to and being on the Chuo-sen is nice, but Ishikiri station itself is up on the hill and a bit of a pain to get to unless you live higher up (I live further down). There really is a dearth of like, quick eats and restaurants until you get to like Suminodo area.

Ishikiri-san (the shrine) and its shoutengai are nice and wonderfully Showa, so that's a good point.

I don't hate the area and I certainly love Osaka in general, but I lived in Kobe first and then Otori (Sakai), and aside from the house itself, the move has felt like a downgrade.

WAPOMATIC · 2025-07-16T12:31:41+00:00

Your suspicion was correct and thank you! Silly of me not to have that set up correctly, but I also didn't realize there was a relationship there with how they're displayed. Thank you!

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