Backing up my MSX carts to floppy?

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Hoagtech
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Backing up my MSX carts to floppy?

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I have vampire killer and I would like to back it up to a floppy disk to play on my MSX2.

What is the best way of putting my physical copy away in storage and burning a rom to a 3.5 disk to play on my hardware?

I would also like to know the same about Space Manbow.

I tried MSX resource but that site is overloaded and I couldn’t find it.

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Re: Backing up my MSX carts to floppy?

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Strange idea to switch from sturdy modules to fragile diskettes...
But if the game allready exists as image you should be able to write it back on every pc
https://www.msx.org/forum/msx-talk/gene ... e-used-msx

Better solution would be some kind of everdrive
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Re: Backing up my MSX carts to floppy?

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Yeah, if you don't want to use the original carts just get a flash cart.
Vampire Killer is pure PSG so your idea can be done in theory but anything that uses a special sound chip
like SCC isn't gonna work properly off a Floppy without a sound cartridge anyway.
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Re: Backing up my MSX carts to floppy?

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I understand now. No wonder metal gear 1 and 2 sounded shitty.

MSX cartridge shop makes the flash carts in 2 diffrent kinds.

SSC+

SSC+, +512kb

My question is if I already have 2048kb of Ram, will I still need the +512 KB version for any reason?
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