I have a Konami Antiques MSX Collection for the Saturn. Putting the disk in a PC shows filenames that seem to be filenames of games, like "parodius.bin". Does this use a normal emulator and ROMs and if so, can I extract the ROMs from the files somehow, thereby getting a legal set of ROMs?
Gradius2: sorry for nitpicking, but AFAIK while both cload and load"cas:" are used for loading from cassette, they are not "same thing" and use different format of saved data.
The files on these collections are more or less .ROM files and not useable .BIN files like on the MSX.
Besides that, all kind of BIOS calls are replaced, so... even if you could load them directly, they won't work.
All the files are weird sizes (twinbee.bin is 23792 bytes, salamand.bin is 102855 bytes) so I don't think that these are plain ROM images or binary files.What I was hoping for was that they have ROM files embedded in them in some way that I can extract.
Forgot exactly which ones, I think about 2/3rd of them, when extracted and loaded as ROM files. I don't know how to extract them myself though, but another member on here (hap) knows.
I have checked PSX Konami Antiques Collection 1, and the ROMs are compressed/encoded in some way. But after decoding them, they are quite similar to the original ones, including BIOS calls.
The only differences I found (i.e.: Konami's Boxing) were that the copy protection was removed (writing a byte to RAM) and "PUSH SPACE KEY" text was replaced with "STAGE CLEAR". Also some bytes were added to the ROM header
I asked hap... he used a playstation emulator, made savestates and extracted the roms from there with a hex editor.
Should work with saturn emulation as well...
