dphirschler Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 I have a ton of GK cart rips from back in the day. I’d love to convert them back into (virtual) module for use in the emulators. Is it possible, and if so, which utilities can do it? I Googled it, but it’s difficult for me to understand the search results. Some of the emulator utilities’ descriptions are vague and/or hard to understand. Darryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazoo Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 I have a ton of GK cart rips from back in the day. I’d love to convert them back into (virtual) module for use in the emulators. Is it possible, and if so, which utilities can do it? I Googled it, but it’s difficult for me to understand the search results. Some of the emulator utilities’ descriptions are vague and/or hard to understand. Darryl Just go here: ftp://ftp.whtech.com/Cartridges/rpk/ Whatever you have is probably already converted. Gazoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dphirschler Posted August 13, 2014 Author Share Posted August 13, 2014 Surely every cartridge is not there. But I did download a few... :-) I have like 14 disks of GK'ed carts. And they pack up small! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjt Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Are RPK files simply ZIPs of Mess versions of cartridges? Is it possible to un- conjugate the groms into single files to load into the pgram card. I assume the loader will not understand the format they are currently in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Yes, RPKs are ZIP packages. I could have stayed with the ".zip" extension, but I was afraid that people would start to unpack them, which is not intended for use in MESS. (OpenDocument formats like .odt oder OfficeOpenXML (.docx) are also ZIP archives; try to unpack them). The GROMs in the RPKs are concatenated plain dumps without headers but with data in 1800-1FFF. In Unix systems you can use split -b8192 completefile.bin grom so you will get files gromaa, gromab, gromac ... as a result. Don't know what to use in Windows, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Don't know what to use in Windows, though. Right here, baby! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazoo Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Are RPK files simply ZIPs of Mess versions of cartridges? Is it possible to un- conjugate the groms into single files to load into the pgram card. I assume the loader will not understand the format they are currently in. It's much much easier to load the RPK in MESS and then run the CARTSAVE program to save the cartridge in TI format than to convert it manually. I've done it both ways. Gazoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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