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[luppie]

After some research, I’ve managed to load Disk images in OpenMSX from the EmulationStation GUI.

The reason why by default Disk Images don’t work is that OpenMSX uses C-Bios. This is an Open Source MSX Bios, that only supports cartridges. It does not have a Disk Bios and Disk-Basic.

To work arround this, you have to add ‘real’ Machine Rom’s
My ROM’s of choice are the MSX Turbo-R Rom’s from the Panasonic FS-A1GT

First you have use this configuration of retropie:
(If you used my previous instruction remove -cart from the added line)

Configure Retropie:

sudo su
nano /opt/retropie/configs/msx/emulators.cfg
ADD this Line: openmsx=/opt/retropie/emulators/openmsx/bin/openmsx %ROM%
[CTRL+X]
Y
[Enter]

Download and extract the Bios Files

cd /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build
wget http://www.msxinfo.net/files/fsa1gt.zip
unzip fsa1gt.zip -d /opt/retropie/emulators/openmsx/share/machines/

Then boot OpenMSX using a random cartridg.
From within OpenMSX open the commandline using F10

Use the following commands to change the default machine:

set default_machine Panasonic_FS-A1GT
save_settings

Now OpenMSX accepts DiskImages