Ps1 Archive Roms
Lotte Donohoe
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No-Intro and Redump are groups that catalog hashes of dumped games for different systems. If a link has "No-Intro" or "Redump" in the name, it is a collection of the currently best-available ROMs for the system. These should be your go-to links if what you are looking for is not in the Popular Games page.
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These files are not ROMs themselves; to use them, you must extract them. 7-Zip is recommended for extracting these files. Download and install it here and run it. Then, open the archive file in 7-Zip or right click on it and go to 7-Zip -> Extract Files.
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MEGA and 1Fichier have pretty serious data caps and unlike Google Drive, there is no easy way to get around them. To bypass the MEGA and 1Fichier download limits, you will need either a VPN or a list of proxies. For the VPN, connect to it and you are good to go. For a list of proxies, you will have to use some 3rd party tool like JDownloader2 and give it the list of proxies. Do note that this process is fairly advanced. After that, you can start downloading by feeding JDownloader2 links to the files you would like to download.
What I think would be great (as I just was trying to re-read and collect this stuff), is to maybe have a 'master' thread (possibly sticky?) with all the 1050 ROMs, so that searches would only need to go to one place for a master ROM archive for the 1050.
I don't know what the difference between Rev K Modified and World Storage ROMs are ? As I understood it Rev K Modified was for the WST mechs. So not sure what the different "World Storage" ROM this site has is.
The Rev J, K, and L are for Tandon, the USD one with faster stepping for Tandon (presume it is using the correct phase encodings), and usdblr_err.wst.rom which is a usd rom with wst stepping speed and I believe correct phase encodings for WST. Also have one I presume was from @Nezgar for fast stepping on a Tandon mech (It is different from the other USD with a faster step by ). I have not pulled down the RevK modified (out of the ATR file from the above linked site), nor the World Storage one (again out of the ATR from that linked site).
Also, I wasn't on the ball on the modified USD ROMs listed.... one a mod for WST dirives, and the other is one for Tandons modified with a faster step rate (unsure if it maintains the 3 steps forward, 1 back on forward seeks or not.... anyone know ?).
The supermax upgrade has an 8k rom. 4k for supermax , 4k for normal 1050 rom (not sure which version) select able with a switch for protected software that wont work with the max rom. 1 and 3 are max rom, 2 and 4 are std 1050 !!??. File is speedy-roms.atr
Command 67 resets the FDC and turns off drive motor, 68 just returns Ack. 69 is special format command. It only supports single and double high speed sector layout and will format according to the percom control block sent previous. Sector tables are built in. It supports USD sio speeds.
It appears that the triple 1050 OS I made years ago which contains 1050 ROM Rev K code and ICD USD Rev K code plus the Lazer, has been in my WD2797 drive for years and has been running them with no apparent problems, mainly with the Lazer option.
A lot of my ROMs are zip files, containing different region versions of each game. Recently I've noticed Launchbox/Retroarch seems to be picking a random region each time it launches, rather than following the region priorities I specified in Launchbox Settings.
You shouldnt have different region roms inside of a single archive. Launchbox has no idea what is in the archive as its the zip you imported, not the contents of it. Also i have never seen romsets that actually come that way, so thats a new one on me.
So, if I unzipped all the archives containing multiple regions, then zipped them all separately to save space; will Launchbox import each ROM as a separate game listing? Or should it then import just 1 game, choosing the Region based on my specifications? Thanks again
If you import them all and have the combine games optioned checked in the import wizard it will group them together under one game. Then you can right click and choose a version that you want to start
I noticed that firmware dump for vintage synth can be incredibly hard to come by unless you know exactly where to look. Most of the time, if you are looking to upgrade or repair your favourite synth, you might find some firmware buried deep in synth forum's while some other seems to only be available by buying very overpriced preprogramed EPROM chip from sellers on eBay. This is my attempt at resolving the situation and making as many firmware dumps as possible freely available for everyone. This page became much more popular than I originally anticipated and seem to have quickly become the biggest vintage synthesizer firmware collection freely available online. Now I understand that this page is pretty simple and lacks several things that would make it more professional and useful. Things like standardization of the filenames, proper credit, better classification, proper database and more information about the chips used is currently lacking but I am planning to fix this in the future. I just haven't managed to find the time yet to do all this so bear with me as I figured that sharing the data was the main purpose of the page and that I better share what I have like this compared to wait to do it more properly and not share anything until.
If you have access to any other chip dump, contact me! Also, if you have a synth with a firmware or sample chip you would like to have dumped and preserved, contact me and I will be happy to help out reading the chip content for you and share it on the page.
*Keep in mind that I do not own any of those Synth and can't test the data myself nor can I answer specific questions about them. I am only sharing the dumps hoping that they will be useful to peoples.
Huge thanks to Rasputin from VintageSynth forum for his help kickstarting this archive, Andreas Markusen along with Claudio ''SerialSinger'' Falcone for not only providing many synth dumps but also for his invaluable help finding out the numerous duplicate dumps that were cluttering the page!
Another long overdue update, with several rare and hard to find firmware! Thanks again to everyone's helping and to the queen of Synthetizer, Alison Cassidy, who seem to be working extra these days to provide us with very hard to find stuff.
Sorry for the long delayed udpate, I had some health issue over the last year or so that took me a while to recover from and my mail box filled up during that time and only just noticed that I was no longer receiving email.
I'm very excited for this update as we are adding our first dump coming from a vintage Soviet synthetizer! I must admit I am personnaly very interested in old Soviet gears and technology and i hope we will get more Soviet EPROM dumps in the future! Thanks to Max ''Synthhead'' for this rare treat!
The first thing that strikes a visitor to the site is either how strange, or how nostalgic it looks. The site is strikingly simple and references the first few years of the world wide web, when backgrounds were grey by default, and the width of the screen was almost always under 640 pixels. Same with the link colors, and use of (to the modern era) small icons next to the words and links. This is a version of the world wide web long gone.
From (very roughly) 1989 through to the early 2000s, CD-ROMs (and later DVD-ROMs) were one of the primary ways to transfer heaps of software or large-sized programs to end users. Instead of spending hours or literal days transferring software you may or may not have wanted after you received it, you could go to stores or on-line and purchase a plastic disc that contained between 600-700 megabytes of information on it.
The potential of this, in fact, was so strong, that there was an entire industry of providing databases, news summaries, and even all-digital magazines using this format. Booklets of CD-ROMs became resplendent, and libraries could allow patrons to check out these discs to do research with them.
As websites, torrents and other means of transport brought the era of physical media for software to a close, the world was left with a finite, contained pile of titles that had come out on CDs. And, as luck would have it, people have been uploading those out of date files to the Internet Archive for years.
Within the search engine is the ability to find millions of files, categorized by type or size or date or extension, and then be presented them instantly. Three decades of computer software with layers upon layers of obfuscation are brought immediately to the top.
Audio and music files play in the browser. Flash, IFF, Bitmaps, Fonts and more display in preview. Macintosh, PC, Commodore, Atari and more are presented simply, without a mandate to track down the proper utility to figure out what they are.
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