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MSX 2 SMS CRABEMU CUSTOM EDITION 529 games

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Well this by Bluecrab very nice work it is

This is my image of it Bespoke version with custom bios and a ton of msx2 and msx conversion that run on it fullspeed :) making playing msx games easy as 1 2 3:)

Also now plays all or most MSX 2 SMS conversion makes it really easy and simple to play MSX games :)

Here is the SB CDI
https://mega.nz/file/iqABBKSD#V8wFDK_JR ... i6fq1Rok7I
AND SRC CODE nulled sd card versions so it works on dc emulators :) for testing
CrabEmu-0.2.0{MSX]src.rar
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Video looks great.

What's the msx to sms conversion stuff all about?

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dubcity wrote:Video looks great.

What's the msx to sms conversion stuff all about?
There was a devkit and tools that was around that allows conversion of msx games to sms machine so buttons are mapped and all


it's easy way to play msx games at fullspeed with proper sound more are being converted

SMS plus this does not work the emulator needs custom mapper it does not have it..

over 500 games have been converted not all work but a ton do and there is some nice gems here

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Ian Micheal wrote:
dubcity wrote:Video looks great.

What's the msx to sms conversion stuff all about?
There was a devkit and tools that was around that allows conversion of msx games to sms machine so buttons are mapped and all


it's easy way to play msx games at fullspeed with proper sound more are being converted

SMS plus this does not work the emulator needs custom mapper it does not have it..

over 500 games have been converted not all work but a ton do and there is some nice gems here
Interesting. I'll give it a download when I put my PC back together in a day or two. Seems like a lot of arcade games got ports to that system. Might be a good alternative to mame.

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dubcity wrote:
Ian Micheal wrote:
dubcity wrote:Video looks great.

What's the msx to sms conversion stuff all about?
There was a devkit and tools that was around that allows conversion of msx games to sms machine so buttons are mapped and all


it's easy way to play msx games at fullspeed with proper sound more are being converted

SMS plus this does not work the emulator needs custom mapper it does not have it..

over 500 games have been converted not all work but a ton do and there is some nice gems here
Interesting. I'll give it a download when I put my PC back together in a day or two. Seems like a lot of arcade games got ports to that system. Might be a good alternative to mame.
There is lots of homebrew as well as games only found on msx the main thing is you dont have to mess around with loading and disks and keyboard lot of these conversions are tap files that now sega master system roms with no loading time i show some of the good arcade conversions but there is many strange and cool games lol..

Normal all these you have to load wait etc..

Maybe i did not make that clear very easy way to play some of the best MSX titles keys are mapped to sega master system controller not keyboards

https://www.smspower.org/forums/16445-MSXToSMSHacks

SMS plus does not work any of these even the pc version

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I assume Metal Gear was converted and is working as well? I would love to see that running full speed with this!

This is such a great thing, even many NES games were converted in a similar way to Mega Drive/Genesis. I played many of those via the official Sega Genesis emulator released on Steam since they allowed you to upload your own roms to Steam Workshop, but since those would get DMCA takedowns it is best you upload your own roms and keep stuff like that private or only allowed friends to access those. Pretty cool as Super Mario Bros. and other popular NES games had been faithfully converted over. This vastly increases the library of the first 2 massively successful Sega consoles. I don't count the SG-1000 as that was not a massively popular system like the later 2 were.
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Thanks for the link to that forum. I'm trying to follow the conversation there. Pretty interesting. They are using this 16ko code at the beginning of the games to map the controls and use sms ram. Correct?

And there are different versions of the hacks by Koreans and taiwanese?

So snes roms were converted to genesis roms? Wow

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dubcity wrote:Thanks for the link to that forum. I'm trying to follow the conversation there. Pretty interesting. They are using this 16ko code at the beginning of the games to map the controls and use sms ram. Correct?

And there are different versions of the hacks by Koreans and taiwanese?

So snes roms were converted to genesis roms? Wow
Yes you need to add not the same bios it's also possible to convert colec to msx then to sms and other systems like i have a few casio games on this collection that ther eis no other way we be able to play :)

also ZX spectrum converted to msx then converted to sms it's very interesting to me that forum indeed and the info and tools on these..

Crabemu does have the how to enable FM sound so it be the first real SMS emulator on dreamcast with FM sound i did this but it drops to 49fps from 60fps constant so more work would be needed in optimizing but there is also bunch of patches that force left over FM soundtracks that were included in almost all USA releases .. there is patches that enabled them and i have tested they work on my enable fm build ..

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Ian Micheal wrote:
dubcity wrote:Thanks for the link to that forum. I'm trying to follow the conversation there. Pretty interesting. They are using this 16ko code at the beginning of the games to map the controls and use sms ram. Correct?

And there are different versions of the hacks by Koreans and taiwanese?

So snes roms were converted to genesis roms? Wow
Yes you need to add not the same bios it's also possible to convert colec to msx then to sms and other systems like i have a few casio games on this collection that ther eis no other way we be able to play :)

also ZX spectrum converted to msx then converted to sms it's very interesting to me that forum indeed and the info and tools on these..

Crabemu does have the how to enable FM sound so it be the first real SMS emulator on dreamcast with FM sound i did this but it drops to 49fps from 60fps constant so more work would be needed in optimizing but there is also bunch of patches that force left over FM soundtracks that were included in almost all USA releases .. there is patches that enabled them and i have tested they work on my enable fm build ..
That's pretty wild

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dubcity wrote:snes roms were converted to genesis roms? Wow
Not SNES, but NES.
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