Wizzard Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 I would like to contribute by uploading my Rambo console dumps. I also uploaded it to another thread, but I think the is the right place to be. Both of files are the collections of 128 games of 4 kB size. They can be easily splitted into individual files. The collections are almost identical, except a few diffetent games. I bought these consoles just for dumping them to get identical copy of my childhood games. Here you are. VGS.128 VCC.128 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ballblaɀer Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 On 2/7/2020 at 8:00 AM, Wizzard said: I would like to contribute by uploading my Rambo console dumps. I also uploaded it to another thread, but I think the is the right place to be. Both of files are the collections of 128 games of 4 kB size. They can be easily splitted into individual files. The collections are almost identical, except a few diffetent games. I bought these consoles just for dumping them to get identical copy of my childhood games. Here you are. VGS.128 512 kB · 11 downloads VCC.128 512 kB · 10 downloads Thanks for doing this! Just curious: what was your process for dumping the games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted February 9, 2020 Author Share Posted February 9, 2020 Hello Wizzard, I split the files and took a look. I did not find any new dumps, but I thank you for doing this nonetheless. You never know what you will find on these multigame consoles or carts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizzard Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 18 hours ago, Ballblaɀer said: Thanks for doing this! Just curious: what was your process for dumping the games? It was not easy for me, but I found one guy in my city (Bratislava, Slovakia) with the right knowledge and equipment which helped me with that. He desoldered both EPROM chips, dumped them in some Villem EPROM programmer and soldered them back, I even did not notice that it was desoldered! Anyway, none of these consoles is fully working, but the most important is that the EPROM chips were working. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris J. Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 (edited) From the Rambo ROMs - there are several very interesting ones. Space Robot and Tom Boy. Can they be added to the games list on this site? Edited February 29, 2020 by Chris J. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizzard Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 (edited) Where is the games list? Anyway, I have another question.I found some games in ROM Hunter collection that are not playable on my system (in Stella): Ms. Pac-Man (09-20-1983) (Atari - GCC, Mark Ackerman, Glenn Parker) (CX2675) (Prototype).bin also games like this: Escape from the Mindmaster (Labyrinth) (2 of 4) (1982) (Starpath Corporation, Dennis Caswell) (5) (AR-4200) (PAL).bin It just shows the blank screen, Is anyone able to play it somewhere? Maybe even on real hardware? Thanks! Edited May 21, 2020 by Wizzard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 22 hours ago, Wizzard said: Where is the games list? I think he's talking about the Atarimania website. http://www.atarimania.com/list_games_atari-2600-vcs-p_total-page-step-letter_1194-4-200-S_2_G.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 The Ms. Pac-Man prototype looks like a bad dump. There seems to be a lot of data missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizzard Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 (edited) Good, so it seems so. Can anybody please also try these another roms? I am afraid they do not work either or I just dont know how to properly run them Thanks! bad.zip Edited May 22, 2020 by Wizzard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 For playing the Starpath ROMs, you should use the combined ROMs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizzard Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 Thank you very much, but that does it mean? Never heard of something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 The ROMS you listed are ~8K, the combined ROMs have ~33K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizzard Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 So they are not playable individually and we just should combine all those files into one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 Yup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizzard Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 Good, will try to combine it and we also should tell @Rom Hunter about that. It also seems that neither of "Elf Adventure" is working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 The combined ROMs are already in ROM Hunter's collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizzard Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 I see, now I understand. So I may delete all of those "1 of 3" etc. files. Now it only seems that not working ROMs are just that Ms. Pacman and Elf Adventure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_79 Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Wizzard said: I see, now I understand. So I may delete all of those "1 of 3" etc. files. Yes, the separate roms are only useful for some older flashcarts. The exception is "Party Mix": that's not a multiload game, but actually three separate games. So, only for that one, keep the separate files and delete the combined rom. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 18 hours ago, Thomas Jentzsch said: The Ms. Pac-Man prototype looks like a bad dump. There seems to be a lot of data missing. Thomas, here are the high and low .bins of that proto. Perhaps there's more to find in the code. 9-20-83.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 The problem is, that each bank contains the 1st 2K repeated as the 2nd 2K. 50% are missing. But the good news is, that the existing two 2K banks are 100% identical with the NTSC release version. So this is no prototype ROM and nothing got lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 1 hour ago, Thomas Jentzsch said: The problem is, that each bank contains the 1st 2K repeated as the 2nd 2K. 50% are missing. But the good news is, that the existing two 2K banks are 100% identical with the NTSC release version. So this is no prototype ROM and nothing got lost. This is what Matt has found out: http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/mspacman/mspacproto.htm So, it's not really worth keeping in the collection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Its a bad dump, why should one keep it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizzard Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 (edited) Guys, thank you for dealing with that. I wonder that maybe nobody before noticed that. Btw, if you have time, can someone please also check that Elf Adventure ROMs? It seems that it does not run even on Atarimania Javatari here: http://javatari.org/?PAGE_BACK_CSS=rgb(188,179,143)&ROM=http://www.atarimania.com/2600/dumps/elf_adventure.zip I was also comparing "32 in 1 Game Cartridge (1988) (Atari) (CX26163P) (PAL).bin" and "32 in 1 Game ROM (1988) (Atari) (Prototype) (PAL).bin" and they are binary identical. Edited May 23, 2020 by Wizzard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 The problem with Elf Adventure is, that the RAM is not initialized. The ROM works if you disable RAM randomization in the developer options. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizzard Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 I just found the ROM Audit function in Stella. It changed the number of ROMs from 1996 to 1872. It seems that it detects the duplicates and deletes them, but I am not sure. I can confirm it deletes one duplicated 32 in 1 cartridge. Have anybody tried it and know how it works? I read that it should read the game properties from database but I am not sure how it handles duplicates, if it also compares the files binary or just reads the properties in games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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