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Forum member radar has mentioned that he has the Korean games "Athletic Land" (MSX port) and "Tetris" (Korean Original) pictured here.

Have these games yet been dumped? If not, is a Retrode likely to be able to dump them (clearly a suitable pinout converter would need to be made)?

All his Korean cartridges needs dumping. Unfortunately I'm not sure you can get them using a Retrode. I don't know how the Retrode works, those things are typically specialized for the most common case. Can you script to get what you want in the memory map, poke the mappers, Etc.?

The cartridges that are likely < 48KB maybe work with Retrode (make sure to dump all 48 KB and not only 32 KB). MSX hack may or may not. The Korean Mark III game probably. Tetris may or may not.

I think the Retrode was built to work with every cartridge that had already been documented by then so, if any of these feature any kind of undocumented mapper, my guess is that nothing useful will come from it.

Wouldn't hurt to try if you have access to one, though.

I think it just has a bunch of address and data lines and hopes to have adaptors and firmware updates to support stuff. The SMS support is probably Sega mapper only.

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RetroSpark Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 488 Location: Melbourne, Australia	Korean Games: "Athletic Land" and "Tetris" Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:04 am Last edited by RetroSpark on Fri Oct 10, 2014 1:42 pm; edited 3 times in total
	Forum member radar has mentioned that he has the Korean games "Athletic Land" (MSX port) and "Tetris" (Korean Original) pictured here. Have these games yet been dumped? If not, is a Retrode likely to be able to dump them (clearly a suitable pinout converter would need to be made)?

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8663 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:33 am Last edited by Bock on Sat Oct 11, 2014 9:02 am; edited 1 time in total
	All his Korean cartridges needs dumping. Unfortunately I'm not sure you can get them using a Retrode. I don't know how the Retrode works, those things are typically specialized for the most common case. Can you script to get what you want in the memory map, poke the mappers, Etc.? The cartridges that are likely < 48KB maybe work with Retrode (make sure to dump all 48 KB and not only 32 KB). MSX hack may or may not. The Korean Mark III game probably. Tetris may or may not.

ICEknight Joined: 03 Apr 2001 Posts: 601 Location: Asturias	Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 1:50 am
	I think the Retrode was built to work with every cartridge that had already been documented by then so, if any of these feature any kind of undocumented mapper, my guess is that nothing useful will come from it. Wouldn't hurt to try if you have access to one, though.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14758 Location: London	Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 9:03 am
	I think it just has a bunch of address and data lines and hopes to have adaptors and firmware updates to support stuff. The SMS support is probably Sega mapper only.

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