openMSX & SPMANBOW2 ROM SUPPORT

Hold it. I was already thinking of something like that in the afternoon, and here's my beep:

As long as we provide a means for the consumer to receive a new copy of the software when the previous copy should fail in anyway !

Is this applicable for MSX software? Does Konami give us a new Salamander when we've ruined it (using it for stuff, without a switch)? Does Sunrise give customers a new Manbow 2 when somehow the game doesn't work anymore? Does Sunrise explicitly state that Manbow may only be played on a real MSX? If not, do you have the right to play it inside an emulator? If so, should one be able to backup the game, in order to play it in any emulator?

That suggests that other systems (C64, Amiga, Atari etc.) went down under at the same time as the MSX, because warez are everywhere.

the same is happening NOW to PC games.Because of the piracy more and more software companies decide NOT to create a PC version. I have experienced this myself. Pretty soon you will have a state-of-art configuration but few games available for it !
As long as companies make a profit they will continue else not !

Really? Can you prove that?
Because PC always has the last games, like Fallout 3 and GTA 4 and even guys who didn't made games for PC are doing them now, like the new metal gear solid.

PingPong: I'm sorry for assuming you didn't have an original yet.

About your dump, is it possible it was dumped after games were saved to it? That would change the checksum and cause openMSX not to recognize it. There are several ways you can work around that:

• erase the save games from the ROM image in a hex editor; I don't know by heart which area this is though
• add the SHA1 sum of your dump to the softwaredb.xml; use the "sha1sum" tool to get the checksum
• force the "manbow2" mapper type in openMSX; that can be done on the openMSX command line and also through Catapult

Note that openMSX puts the save game area in a separate file, so it won't modify your ROM image and change its SHA1 sum again.

An older version of Catapult had a (confusing) UI for specifying mapper type, but it seems we removed that completely in newer versions.

You can do it from the command line like this:
openmsx -carta manbow2.rom -romtype manbow2

Hold it. I was already thinking of something like that in the afternoon, and here's my beep:

As long as we provide a means for the consumer to receive a new copy of the software when the previous copy should fail in anyway !

Is this applicable for MSX software? Does Konami give us a new Salamander when we've ruined it (using it for stuff, without a switch)? Does Sunrise give customers a new Manbow 2 when somehow the game doesn't work anymore? Does Sunrise explicitly state that Manbow may only be played on a real MSX? If not, do you have the right to play it inside an emulator? If so, should one be able to backup the game, in order to play it in any emulator?

There is most certainly a guarantee/warranty for our products in general for one year.
All with same conditions as Ryuzo stated, returning the old copy etc
Manbow2 can be played with the gamereader on a pc , so it isnot explicitly for a real msx and has a protection
Konami would have done so also if there were still alive and within a certain period it damaged.
I give you an example : I bought the smartcards from electric with sweet acorn and chack'n pop VIA Aackosoft I thought
Within a few days chack'n pop was damaged. I got my money back without any problem.