Re: Cartridge files converting back to .ROM/.BIN ? How ?

Peter Dassow (remove the NOSPAM. for direct answer) wrote:

Riccardo, you assume that there are no chunks/parts, but cartridges
greater than 16KB typically have chunks, means 2KB or 4KB blocks,
with a 16 byte header between them. I was looking for "reactivating"
Vindicators, which has 64KB, and there is *not* only a header first.

Hello Peter. You didn't tell specifically what you were trying to convert,
but the method I just gave you still works. You would have to dump the
memory for each chunk of interest and save it to a binary file.

I have no idea what the Vindicators PCB looks like. I read in the other post
of yours that you ended up with eight binary files of 8KB each ( worth a
27512 EPROM ). This is reminiscent of how the Magic Desk cartridge was
made... You had a certain number of 8Kb banks, in this case eight, and then
bank switching was made via software to move between each of them.

I have never done it before, but most probably all you have to do is burn
the eight parts stacked on top of each other to a 27512 ( ie. from DOS: copy
/b 1.bin+2.bin+...+8.bin vindicators.bin ) . What does the Vindicators PCB
look like?

Riccardo


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