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ROMLOAD

Inspired by Sean Young's SCROM, ROMLOAD started as a fairly simple tool to load and execute a ROM in a Konami Sound Cartridge like Snatcher and SD-Snatcher. It supports Konami Sound Cartridges which are expanded to 128 kB RAM which allows loading ROM images up to 1MegaROM to be loaded, and with an ESE-SCC (which can have up to 512 kB RAM) up to 4MegaROM ROM images can be loaded

full MSX-DOS2 support
after load
- reset MSX
- start ROM image (also disk-enabled)
on-the-fly conversions from
- Konami without SCC
- ASCII 8 kB
- ASCII 16 kB
- Super Lode Runner
- Cross Blaim
- MSX-DOS2 Kernel
on-the-fly patching of
- system language
- system version
- manual patching
special support for
- Page 0 ROM images
- BASIC in ROM
- disabling ROM images
changing of CPU settings
- changing CPU speed on Ciel MSX2+
- changing CPU speed on MSX2+
- changing CPU mode on MSXturboR
second Konami cartridge
boot ROM image with SCC-I mode
ESE-SCC support with up to 512 kB
ignore detection of a Sound Cartridge or ESE-SCC in a slot
loading a ROM image even though it wouldn't fit
second usage format which fits on a WIDTH 80 screen
(keeps the detected slot visible)

Planned features include:

user interface
- screen width 40
- disk browser
- CPU selector
support for other cartridges like
- LPE FlashG
- MegaFlashROM
- MegaRAM
- Zemmix Boxes
support to fetch conversion options
SRAM support
extra on-the-fly conversions like
- Korean special mappers

News

27 June 2008 - Released version 1.99u!
This version contains the fixes in the IPS patch of v1.99t, supports ESE-SCC up to 512 kB of RAM, added reformatted usage for WIDTH 80 and more!

4 December 2006 - Released version 1.99t!
This version runs Cross Blaim, fixes a bug in the Super Lode Runner implementation which caused the correct dump of the game not to run and more!

22 November 2006 - ROMLOAD has become a TNI product.

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ROMLOAD version 1.99u
ROMLOAD version 1.99t
ROMLOAD version 1.99s