List of undumped MSX software (PLEASE HELP!)

Prophet (3346)

28-03-2023, 08:19

Elliot wrote:

Great job you guys finding the last W Series Hudson Soft games

You're very welcome. I must give most of the credits to the people sending these files to me, among which an anonymous "MSX Donator" who has sends me files on a regular basis. It's thank to those people the archive is getting more & more complete.

By mcolom

Champion (316)

28-04-2023, 09:29

mcolom wrote:

Going on with this long thread about undumped MSX software, I have the impression that we probably don't have a good dump of the ROM of Quicksilva's Boogaboo. Let me explain. There are three versions around, with these SHA sums:
8fe21e5ff12cbd52e379bfc1feaf9f560289ba42 Booga-Boo - Indescomp (1986) [4145].rom
2a91ccc4a8085a9acd195bf1a264deaf2db329b0 Booga-Boo - Indescomp (1986) [5714].rom
fd5dd1d16c46eba134910b5e9550656ba9a1fd82 BOOGABOO.ROM
(and another which was made by me from the CAS, about 20 years ago).

The two first have at least one character wrong in the map, so clearly they don't correspond to an original dump. I had the original cartridge from Indescomp as a child, and I don't remember any weird thing in the map. I'm sure about that.
In this two, SP is set to 0xF380, which is a good thing to avoid problems in MSX2. But the original CAS version has SP=0xFFFF.
Clearly they're not an original dump, with a mistake in the map and a different initialization of SP.

The other one (fd5dd1d16c46eba134910b5e9550656ba9a1fd82 BOOGABOO.ROM) simply has all the places where SP is initialized overwritten with NOPs, but the map is correct. Is this a fix by Sony/Indescomp when releasing the cartridge, or is it a posterior fix? I really doubt that Sony or Indescomp did it. A way to check is to know if the original cartridge actually worked in an MSX2. The CAS version simply hangs in an MSX2.

In conclusion, I'm not sure we have at all a good dump of this game. Not important to play the game, of course, just for the sake of perfect preservation. If someone has the cartridge (which is really rare, unfortunately), please dump it!

I'm getting back to this, since I've confirmed with two independent sources the dump of the cartridge.
The conclusion is that from all the versions around, the original one is the one with shasum 7ca0ca4b9ca9715fe65427ca47c634103e1f7ca3. The others are modifications to make it work in MSX2, or ROM conversions from tape dumps, some of them with read errors.

Thanks Jordi Morales and Antxiko for the help!

By gdx

Enlighted (6215)

28-04-2023, 09:53

There are more dumps of Booga-Boo:

~/Tape Converted to ROM/Quicksilva (UK):
Booga-Boo (The Flea).rom, sha1=5ceffd3dc9887833e7b5b717650dd956e89803a3
Booga-Boo (The Flea) [a].rom, sha1=2a91ccc4a8085a9acd195bf1a264deaf2db329b0
Booga-Boo (The Flea) [a2].rom, sha1=8fe21e5ff12cbd52e379bfc1feaf9f560289ba42
Booga-Boo (The Flea) [Stack fix].rom, sha1=dc5ae4285294109959151799bf1162754390b583

~/Roms from Spain or Mexico/Sony:
La Pulga - Booga-Boo.rom, sha1=7ca0ca4b9ca9715fe65427ca47c634103e1f7ca3
La Pulga - Booga-Boo [Stack fix].rom, sha1=31b7005f26f291d215cd02d9f85c132f07de28a4

I think only versions with the "Stack fix" work correctly.

By mcolom

Champion (316)

28-04-2023, 10:58

gdx wrote:

There are more dumps of Booga-Boo:
I think only versions with the "Stack fix" work correctly.

Yes, the original overwrites address -1 with the stack and restarts after changing the subslots as a side effect.
Anyway, now we know which is the original version for sure

By ~mk~

Champion (328)

03-05-2023, 00:33

Hi everyone,
I am happy to share I have successfully dumped a couple of cartridges which AFAIK were not available in rom format.
One of them is Toshiba's T-PLAN and another one is Telematica's LPC (Lenguaje de Programacion en Castellano).
A big thanks go to "El Griego" for lending me the cartridges, and Gabriel aka "Borg" who will be scanning the manuals and hosting them along with pictures on his website. We will be uploading and sharing all of this soon.
Also thanks to Gabriel G. who lend me hardware that allowed me to dump the roms.
If all goes well, we might be able to dump other obscure stuff made by Telematica S.A.

By tfh

Prophet (3346)

03-05-2023, 08:24

That's some great news. Thank you for the work all of you have put into restoring/preserving this software!

By bsittler

Champion (257)

03-06-2023, 03:23

Is the Korean ROM cartridge dump for Dr. HELLO still needed? I dumped mine today and it runs fine in openMSX. Please send an email (address is in my profile) if you need any information about this game cartridge

Dump fingerprint information:

32K Dr. HELLO (KR) [_].rom crc32:cf5a9b92 md5:3196bf9713c2625023d3dca66337f313 sha1:872937bc37540b3152e050e3a318a660d8f9d7c9 sha256:a361816898b77a55f75a5b5c12dedfedc761a415beabaca6a75f6d480280ab7a

By bsittler

Champion (257)

03-06-2023, 03:45

While I'm at it, these are file fingerprints for the other cartridges I dumped and didn't find elsewhere on the internet. Please email me if you have questions about any of them!

32K Castle Excellent (Japan) [a1] [_].rom crc32:e476eff8 md5:da6b7dbaefef460e76c78598e0bb3a25 sha1:34711e434d4895dec989904bb536ba7cfa1f3607 sha256:ee67a388cf8ef8dc2f0d9933faafa94474ba858efc1fe42ad3dd438196aa2533

32K City Connection (Aquarius) [_].rom crc32:5e5fd258 md5:3318c77538a44aa6f621a8de07454680 sha1:fbcb0507cc1a42ec1ebdb75e66d3459bd17f2bfc sha256:c0bf471cd7845d337cf82adaea325ba9ee2107bbe9907813650b746a61b5db37

128K Fairy Land Story, The (Aquarius) [_].rom crc32:539e7caa md5:ea5727f3f5d86ca7e4d4ce33fe68c868 sha1:857d80464b578d9ee9bc609e1a99a776cd4cea3c sha256:96596236a5548d3ae6b6d0e426b132a9cb45a5fb3bd52ee49b15f57f4c6c6258

32K Koji Tanigawa's Shogi Instruction [_].rom crc32:7ecf97e8 md5:8b42e1365158c56a0f331d18546a61a8 sha1:8bf068725bd79f96ec10a78aac7ec30049358c0f sha256:9a7a9413d283582725bc7cc548c6ebcd36fa63019c0bf50f84d35eb566fc7cb7

32K Maseong Jeonseol - Knightmare - Clover (KR) [_].rom crc32:50e2e7d7 md5:e5c42bf340d3c72b7ef037bc2804131b sha1:de8d90cea5e5e0cfc6f8c9d1fedb6e1243c77b5c sha256:f1ea083a2498039916787bbadfb776e059e79713034a9172868bfb697d0b3733

32K Othello (Pony Canyon) [_].rom crc32:8d6c5543 md5:319df481014754ed1406633a3809768b sha1:7e51ba178740264c968cb06046c532d848ef0fe6 sha256:e446aa54f7c7cc7724d978e79bde4f47ce333dac63dd38ee41ffaba4bcd1358a

16K Pastfinder ~ Galax (Gradiente) [_].rom crc32:27c5d503 md5:13900a9400e0e2b0e5932e0a7b8b146f sha1:d7c9eab6bc9ec939c747dbb5edb43ddb0c0e90d6 sha256:31b66f0bb4b4baec2ce336167df887c4e54f523a2ae95ad5a6d0bd1f71f98d21

8.0K Pyramid Warp (Japan) [_].rom crc32:12287292 md5:240bda3a06d9e5d22f314f287f4060c9 sha1:0e63032a21ea4e42b67df98a24c2c30c6d88c319 sha256:1b48875806f25a858a9fe04d1e89e0d83f9615d94d04bcfb7b24fc6abe44b426

64K Synthe Saurus (Japan) (Program) [_].rom crc32:8ac33161 md5:b6ea309cd2a02d1078cbf4a54e180959 sha1:11c4df13f097f75195a5033c424d3d05011e432a sha256:ff0f962cdc9db9f5b8fa61394a6f8478e0db6ef3df816468b1a394d20b79a50a

32K Tetris II (Prosoft) [_].rom crc32:4a03ed67 md5:ff6ae8707d8062d8ac8ab317312563bb sha1:1ec5774544ef2a087d09abae511638cfcb3e43d3 sha256:e6332383018521a6fba99066411141b4b48dd9dc2b1d101621535fa120c3ddf9

32K Zaxxon (SEGA) [_].rom crc32:1c5458e7 md5:5e22e2488c20455957e36e1f76a4e3bc sha1:93b8ad5ff40be8e50506e28dbd3927771e2d7f2f sha256:628a927627fd797f68ac39bff7513f0fe0165e0be3af8c36dfc1487650eae359

edit: added a few I previously overlooked

By bsittler

Champion (257)

03-06-2023, 19:03

Here are pictures of the cartridge for Maseong Jeonseol - Knightmare - Clover (KR)

By bsittler

Champion (257)

03-06-2023, 19:26

Here are pictures of the box and cartridge for Tetris II (Prosoft)