Talk:Rance I:Cut Content/@comment-40164738-20200109230532/@comment-40164738-20200110111445

Ran into similar issues when I was starting to get the midi/music files out. From the quick look around I read that D88 itself isn't one solid format. The actual disk images could be anything, it's like there wasn't any actual standard and companies just figured it out. I'll have a look around, see if I have better luck this time around. There are fan translations of PC88 games and I really hope that they didn't just edit the text with hexeditors.

As for the other comment, should be up today in the Rance I enemies section.

I had another look around. Generally found the same tools which are all great for looking at the disks themselves, but not so much at the contents. I did find a tool which seems to support quite a lot more disk formats AND manual settings.

The source blog which linked me to it was messing with setting up that floppy emulator and dumping roms to then write back for use in that floppy emulator as well as some other stuff. Not exactly what we are looking for, but it looks like a good tool. I would mess with it more to see if I can get it to work, but I frankly have very little knowledge about the format to begin with. I do know neokobe has technical documents and I think they describe the format in general.

The rance disk has the following boot message: Tiny MESH (22sector) Ver 0.9. Disk version may 24,1985. I assume that's the disk format. If it's JP only, you'll probably find no info at all though.

L3diskex: http://s-sasaji.ddo.jp/bml3mk5/download.htm#l3diskex (download) https://tomoretropc.blogspot.com/2019/03/ (original searched blog)