I'm opening this thread to have a single point of information for MSX owners to know how to easily reverse engineer and dump their MSX models so they can be properly emulated, usually by openMSX or BlueMSX teams. Until now, both the information on how to do it and the utilities where scattered over the Net and many utilities where hard to find.
To help in this process, I gathered a set of utilities used for the reverse engineering and published them here.
Inside of the zip file there's a README.TXT that explains what each utility does, and how to use them.
Before you begin, always check if your machine isn't already emulated in this list. Please note that there are different region models (i.e.: Japanese and European) of many machines and not all variations have been dumped yet. For example:
- The European Toshiba HX-10 have been dumped, but the original Japanese model hasn't
- Most of the European Spectravideo models have been dumped, but the US models still haven't
- The European Sony HB-F500P have been dumped, but the Japanese HB-F500 hasn't
- The Mitsubishi ML-G1 European model have been dumped, but the Japanese model hasn't
- The Russian Yamaha YIS805/128 have been dumped, but not the Japanese model
- Only the Yamaha CX5M & CX5MII European models have been dumped. Many other models are missing: US, Australian, etc.
Many other relevant machines are still missing:
- Daewoo CPC-300
- Hitachi MB-H50
- Toshiba HX-23
- Toshiba HX-23F
- Toshiba HX-33
- Toshiba HX-34
- Talent DPC-300
- Mitsubishi ML-G10
- Mitsubishi ML-G30
- Mitsubishi ML-G30mkII
- Sanyo PHC-55FD2
- Yamaha YIS805/256
- Yamaha CX7M
- Many models from the middle East