troy Posted January 30, 2003 Share Posted January 30, 2003 Is there a tool or something that will convert .a26 files to .bin files? Seem like the emulators that I use dont like or recognize these files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshk Posted January 30, 2003 Share Posted January 30, 2003 On mime, I went to the directory in a command prompt window and type "rename *.a26 *.bin" and hit enter. Works fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupcakus Posted January 30, 2003 Share Posted January 30, 2003 On mime, I went to the directory in a command prompt window and type "rename *.a26 *.bin" and hit enter. Works fine Yep that should work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troy Posted January 31, 2003 Author Share Posted January 31, 2003 I meant more multiple files at onec. But I found a tool to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Or just use the DOS command line: ren *.a26 *.bin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Smiler B Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Just wondering if there was a way to convert .bin to .a26 rom files as the new Argon emulator for android only recognises .a26 roms? Would like to try out Zippy The Porcupine on it. Not the end of the world as 2600emu runs both roms. Also is there a way to convert .bin to .a78 for the same reason above? Would like to try out some homebrew on the Argon emulator. Some roms can be renamed to work but some just crash the emulator when renamed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 .a26 and .bin files are identical. So you just have to rename them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 If I remember correctly, .a78 files contain some additional information in a header, so you can not do the same with those. It is additional info like bankswitch type/ROM size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 3 hours ago, Ian Smiler B said: Just wondering if there was a way to convert .bin to .a26 rom files as the new Argon emulator for android only recognises .a26 roms? Would like to try out Zippy The Porcupine on it. As mentioned above, .a26 and .bin are identical as far as 2600 ROM files are concerned. Zippy the Porcupine is a 64K game, which is extremely rare for 2600 games. It's probabley that Argon does not support a 64K games and/or EF bankswitching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bhall408 Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 On 7/30/2021 at 2:35 PM, SpiceWare said: Zippy the Porcupine is a 64K game, which is extremely rare for 2600 games. It's probabley that Argon does not support a 64K games and/or EF bankswitching. Does Zippy also use ARM code, or is it "just" the EF bankswitching? If it is just bankswitching, I could see us doing that sooner rather than later. ARM code support is in the later category. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 4 minutes ago, bhall408 said: Does Zippy also use ARM code, or is it "just" the EF bankswitching? If it is just bankswitching, I could see us doing that sooner rather than later. ARM code support is in the later category. It's just the size and bankswitching format - no ARM code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bhall408 Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 On 7/30/2021 at 10:58 AM, Ian Smiler B said: Just wondering if there was a way to convert .bin to .a26 rom files as the new Argon emulator for android only recognises .a26 roms? Would like to try out Zippy The Porcupine on it. Not the end of the world as 2600emu runs both roms. Games that we have the information for in our server side database will be recognized no matter what the filename/extension is (it is based on a generated hash for each game). We have a few thousand games in the database, but don't cover hacks and most "works in progress" (we have some WIP, but generally wait for them to go final). When we don't have a match in the database, we then try and determine it based on the contents. And if we can't figure it out that way, we fall back on the file extension. .A26 .A78 .COL .INT .LNX .NES .VEC We're in the middle of adding 5200 and 8-Bit support at the moment. For those, we're using/supporting .A52 for 5200 and .CAR/.XEX for 8-Bit. More info on the formats supported, and how to load them are here: Add games to My Library in Argon - Android device Add games to My Library in Argon - Google Drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bhall408 Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 1 minute ago, Karl G said: It's just the size and bankswitching format - no ARM code. Could you recommend a link/reference on that format I could share with the engineer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 It's an extrapolation of F8/F6/F4 for 64K: http://www.taswegian.com/WoodgrainWizard/tiki-index.php?page=EF 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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