Anyone Able to Dump a TV Boy?

[+Omegamatrix]

The first came from a 208 in 1 cart. The second menu is on the Screen Search console. You discovered that menu rom a few years back.

 

I have no doubt that these menus were probably recycled on at least a few different consoles. Both menus are related to each other, and there exists at least a third version that is undumped. Here is a picture of it. Maybe it will show up on one of these TV boys.

 

 

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Thanks. Yes, the menus are from the same origin. The 3rd one you posted is not from the TV Boys. I just today received the ROMs and they show the same menu as the other TV Boys. Where did you find the screenshot?

 

BTW: Can you post the complete ROM of the 208 in 1 cart, please?

[slydc]

21 hours ago, Thomas Jentzsch said:

But there exists another menu ROM which displays the following screen (and has different music). Where does this one come from? Maybe from another TV Boy variant?

 

This is the first time i'm seeing this select screen, so don't know which variant it comes from. Maybe it comes from an Atari 2600 or

2600 junior clone with 128 built-in games or simply a cartridge with 128 games. There are so many pirate clones (like Rambo TV games)

that needs to be cataloged

 

 

Nice job find the two roms from MAME and they are both 338k size zip files.

 

There is more TV-Boy clones i forgot: the Game Link 2001, the SilverStar (which this one has 64 games built-in) and the Akor Super TV-Boy III.

 

Found a page that someone dumped a 128-in-1 cartridge: http://www.sromero.org/ext/atari/atari2600_128in1.php

and you can download the rom.

 

Other dumps but from a Junior PAL clone:

 

https://www.emulatorgames.net/roms/atari-2600/128-in-1-junior-console-chip-1-pal/

 

https://www.retrostic.com/roms/atari-2600/128-in-1-junior-console-chip-2-pal-83429

 

https://www.retrostic.com/roms/atari-2600/128-in-1-junior-console-chip-3-pal-83430

 

https://www.retrostic.com/roms/atari-2600/128-in-1-junior-console-chip-4-pal-83427

 

Now i'm of to bed...RRrrZZzz......

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Thanks for positing the links. Too bad that the 128in1 archive doesn't contain the original file.

 

Here are the TV Boy dumps I got so far. Note that the TV Boy (NTSC) one is a bad dump which is severely broken.

 

Note: The next Stella release will support the TV Boy ROMs directly.

 

Super TV Boy.bin TV Boy (NTSC) (bad).bin TV Boy (PAL).bin TV Boy 2.bin

Edited May 26, 2020 by Thomas Jentzsch

[+Omegamatrix]

17 hours ago, Thomas Jentzsch said:

Thanks. Yes, the menus are from the same origin. The 3rd one you posted is not from the TV Boys. I just today received the ROMs and they show the same menu as the other TV Boys. Where did you find the screenshot?

 

BTW: Can you post the complete ROM of the 208 in 1 cart, please?

Do you mean a single image of the 208 in 1 cart? It wasn't dumped with all at once with an eeprom reader. I had to read each rom individually using a 7800 dumper. It took several hours as I recall.

 

The screenshot of the third menu is from a console that Spirantho had.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Too bad.

 

I wonder if we could reconstruct the original single image. Would that be just the individual ROMs merged?

 

The screenshot is interesting. It is most likely doing nothing in the console, because the hardware doesn't support the bankswitching. So there must have been existed a console or cart which supports it. And its contents got simply copied (pirated) for this console.

Edited May 27, 2020 by Thomas Jentzsch