Looking for German redumpers to help with MESS database

[ReadOnly]

Hello,

I am one of the maintainers of the SNES database of the MESS emulator (sister project of MAME).

I am looking for people who have or would want to redump their SNES cartridges. This will allow to confirm a lot of currently unverified dumps. If you have already dumped your cartridges, then you just need to scan them with NSRT (http://www.sendspace.com/file/rglcv6) and send me the scan logs. The picture of the pcb are also needed to do a proper documentation of the cart, and verify if the size of the roms is correct (the programmers often can't calculate the real size and rely on header).

The help of RedScorpion among others would be highly appreciated.

US and JP set are almost entirely verified now, the PAL set is the weak point at this time. A lot of dumpers already contributed: JohnDie, Badablek, Tori... but there are still a lot of blank spots, that's why I need your help.

[Redscorpion]

hi ReadOnly,

sounds very interesting and is a good idea, i think

Short Question: How do you dump the games of US and JAP?!

thanks in advance

red

[ReadOnly]

I suppose you're asking how to dump in general. Dumping a cart means using a programmer to create an image of the roms in the cartridge. That image can then be used to rewrite it in another cartridge, or to use it in your computer with the proper emulator.

There are a lot of programmers, one which is popular lately is Retrode (http://www.retrode.org/) and it is made in Germany.

EDIT: I posted a bad link to Nach SNES Rom Tool (NSRT) You can download it here directly: http://www.sendspace.com/file/rglcv6 NSRT is capable of scanning your dumps to say if they are good or bad, it is very useful.

[Redscorpion]

Thanks for information I know already what a dump is

Retrode is a good device to dump roms?! Could i dump the rom via "copy and paste" from windows when i have connect a cardridge?!

And for which project do you need all this new information?! Could you post alink from list with us and jap dumps/infos

red

[ReadOnly]

Retrode is a good device to dump roms?! Could i dump the rom via "copy and paste" from windows when i have connect a cardridge?!

Retrode can be connected via usb to the computer, so yes pretty much copy/paste (involving an interface/firmware).

And for which project do you need all this new information?! Could you post alink from list with us and jap dumps/infos

MESS (sister project of MAME): Multiple Emulator Super System
http://git.redump.net/mess/tree/hash

Note that all available infos were not implemented yet because the list is still WIP.

[Redscorpion]

okay, ich will try to get a retrode 2 for a good price.

Have you also got the rom files from the other people to share the us and jap set with communit including information. In this case we could create a nearly 100% correct dumparchiv

greetz

red