Openmsx ignores toggle_freq when done externally

the problem is that while most of the time I play in 50hz same games don't run well in 50hz like vampire killer it stutters a lot in 50hz but as you said some games (including vampire killer will display in english on an EU machine. but than sometimes games like metal gear refuse to play on an EU machine but I still want to play them at 50hz and sometimes it just depends how i feel that day.

It would be so much easier if it was just a simply command line option like the machine itself. You should be allowed to have control over the hz regardless of what machine your using, the two should be completely different settings. if people want it chosen for them you put in a third option called auto.

I don't buy into that its wrong to take away player choice, also "as it was intended" can be a matter of debate see exhibit a, b, and c

https://i.imgur.com/Pq2Yra4.png

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXFYWJ7dbz0

Take Tomb Raider for example you could play it like normal on a psx or today you could use something called perspective correction. But does that go against the devs original vision? the pc version with hardware acceleration looks not unlike psx with perspective correction and upresing. However you could also play it in software mode which looks like the original psx minus the flickering textures (but still really fugly). While many played tomb reader with a GPU back in the day for many it is the psx version that is the original way "it was intended"

At the end of the day what is best is to just educate users so they have all the information they need to make an informed decision on what is best for them because it all comes down to personal test.

For Metal Gear, use the English version, it runs fine on a European MSX.

If you insist on controlling the video chip like that, you have to give the command later, using the after command. E.g. after time 1 toggle_freq

On MSX2 and up, the software controls the interrupt/display frequency and openMSX has no option to permanently override it.

The problem is indeed not to discuss what is the best VDP frequency to play a MSX game or demo, but to leave the choice to the end-user and to save/apply his preferences, what openMSX can't do for the VDP frequency, not only for the launching of the emulated MSX machine, but also permanently even when the software has instructions to change the VDP frequency.

No need to get stressed.

webMSX has an US-International machine configuration (it's the default), so you can easily play the games both in English and 60Hz.

OpenMSX will also feature an US-International machine in its next version: it's one of the C-BIOS machines, and AFAIK it will be the default.