Great MSX Collection v1.02

This is a compilation of different sources of stuff for MSX-1 and MSX-2 home computers. MSX were 8-bit home computers developed by ASCII and Microsoft in Japan. MSX begun producing in 1983 year, MSX-2 in 1985 year. Many big companies (http://www.passionmsx.org/msxgamesbox/museum/index.php) produced their models of this computer: Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, Philips, etc. These computers were popular in Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Netherlands, Spain, France, USSR, but almost not known in USA. More than 1500 games were made for it, but many of them have no English language versions. From 1988 year 8-bit computers and MSX specifically loose interest to them, being exceled by 16-bit computer systems becoming cheaper. There were sold about 5 million MSX in the world, quantity comparable to Apple II and Atari ST, and more then Amstrad CPC. =Technical specifications= MSX-1 (1983 г.): CPU Zilog Z80A 3.58 MHz; RAM to 64 KB; videochip TI TMS9918, 16 KB, 256x192x16 colors (palette 16 colors), hardware 1-color sprites; 40x24 text; soundchip AY-3-8910, 3 channels + noise; ROM with BASIC; cartridge slot for programs and expansions. MSX-2 (1985 г.), difference from MSX-1: RAM 64-128 KB (in common); videochip Yamaha V9938, 128 KB, 512x212x16 colors, 256x212x256 colors (palette 512 colors, no influence to near pixels; 256 colors mode was not used in games, in common), hardware 16-color sprites; 80x24 text; clock chip; 100% hardware compatibility with MSX-1; ordinary, had a built-in 720 KB floppy drive. As an addition many users installed MSX-MUSIC cartridge expansion. MSX-2 have the best graphics capabilities among 8-bit home computers (among 8-bit platforms Sega Master System is close). Some games were ported from ZX Spectrum to MSX-1 and look the same ugly as at Spectrum. Games that were specially developed for MSX-1 and especially MSX-2 look with a noticable difference. To know more about this platform and how to use emulators you may read the FAQ (http://www.faq.msxnet.org) =The compilation includes= Funet (ftp://ftp.funet.fi, http://www.msxarchive.nl) - documents, photos, games, programs, etc. MRC (http://www.msx.org) - news, music, demos, programs, etc. Passion MSX (http://www.passionmsx.org) - news, demos, music, games, programs, games translations, etc. MSX Info (http://msx.retro8bits.com) - documents, programs MsxIsland (http://www.msxisland.com) - games, documents, programs, music, demos, etc. Xtory MSX (http://members.fortunecity.com/2ndf1/msx-eng.htm) - games, programs, etc. MSX TOSEC (http://www.tosecdev.org) - games, diskmagazines, bioses Gamebase MSX (http://www.gb64.com) - games with screenshots MCCM Millennium- games, programs MSX-Mbox (http://www.msx#posse.com) - games with screenshots MSX No-Intro (http://datomatic.no-intro.org) - games GoodMSX (http://www.allgoodthings.us/mambo/) - games MsxSolutions (http://msxsolutions.msxblue.com) - games maps Neonnights (http://neonnights.msxblue.com) - games maps MSX IPS Patch Archive (http://ips.tni.nl) - patches for .roms wich add translation to games Generation MSX (http://www.generation-msx.nl) - games info and screenshots OfflineList MSX (http://offlinelist.free.fr) - games info, some with screenshots Ultimate MSX FAQ (http://www.faq.msxnet.org) - FAQ about MSX Komkon (http://fms.komkon.org/MSX/, ftp://ftp.komkon.org) - programs, games, documents MsxPro (http://www.msxpro.com) - documents, programs MSX Assembly (http://map.tni.nl) - documents, sources Bifi (http://bifi.msxnet.org/msxnet/, ftp://ftp.bifi.msxnet.org) - documents, programs Adrianpage (http://www.alsoftware.com.br/adrianpage/) - programs Nyyrikki (http://msx.fi/nyyrikki/) - programs Msx Banzai (http://msxbanzai.tni.nl) - news, programs Lieves!Tuore (http://www.kameli.net/lt/) - site of demo-group Lieves!Tuore Bandwagon (http://gr.ath_cx/bandwagon) - site of demo-group Bandwagon Team Bomba (http://www.teambomba.net) - site of demo-group Team Bomba Abyssmsx (http://www.abyssmsx.com) - programs, demos Amusement Factory (http://www.caetano.eng.br/main/) - programs Avelino Morales Page (http://msx.atlantes.org/index_en.html) - sources FRS (http://frs.badcoffee.info) - games adopted for hard disk JJC Software (http://www.dlcsistemas.com/msx/) - programs, documents MSX Files (http://www.icongames.com.br/msxfiles/main.htm) - programs, games Vincent van Dam (http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~vincentd/) - programs MSX forever (http://www.yspu.yar.ru/MSX/) - programs, games Homepage by cax (http://cax.nm.ru) - programs MSX Page by Secoh (http://www.secoh.ru/msx/) - sources PC Remakes (http://computeremuzone.com/remakes/) - remakes of MSX games MSX Music - chiptune music Revistas MSX en espanol (http://personales.ya.com/robpermil/) - index of games in Spanish magazines MSX Magazines (http://www.abandonware-magazines.org, etc.) - magazines about MSX MSX Books (http://msxlivros.blogspot_com, etc.) - books about MSX MSX Video - video about MSX Emulators - emulators Almost MSX - stuff for computers similar to MSX (same CPU and video) Different - simply different !!! Detailed filelist is inside of the torrent. =Screenshots= Alien 8 (http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/8089/alien8.png) A1 Spirit (http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1108/a1spirit.png) Penguin Adventure (http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/1010/penguinj.gif) AE (http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/275/45873682.gif) Athletic Land (http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/4043/athleticland.gif) La Geste d'Artillac (http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4232/lagestedartillac.png) Putup (http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/2791/putup.gif) Silviana (http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/3821/silviana.png) Nemesis 2 (http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/4707/nemesis2k.png) Camelot Warrior (http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/6287/camelotwarrior.gif) Penguin Kun Wars 2 (http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/8475/penguinkunwars2.png) Knight Mare (http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/8357/kmare.gif) Zanac (http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2143/zanac.gif) Space Manbow (http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/2195/msx002007.png) Twinkle Star (http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/6986/twinklestarz.png) F-1 Spirit 3D (http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/8060/f1spirit3d.png) !! Please, try to make torrent's share ratio > 1 !! Please, do not leave the share if there are less than 5 seeds P.S. Add these trackers to torrent's properties to ensure there is working one: http://tracker.openbittorrent.com/announce http://tracker.publicbt.com/announce P.P.S. By some strange reason PB deletes some links from description. So you should replace '_' то '.', '#p' to 'p', etc in some links.

udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80
udp://open.demonii.com:1337
udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969

xseyss (2011-07-17)

holy shit 32gbs!!

 crazyadriaan (2012-02-04)

Thanks fot this great torrent, I wil seed for a long time. This one must survive for many years.

LordSlizurp (2013-06-02)

I would really love to have this amazing torrent. If completed, I will seed for weeks.

LordSlizurp (2013-06-08)

We got 3 people stuck at 85% including me, if anyone could help finish us off that would be really cool, thanks

LordSlizurp (2013-06-09)

96.9% complete... begging for seed assisstance
(bearfucker! do you need assisstance!?)

cawasame (2014-04-04)

Hello everyone. This really works!
I mean: I complete the download and unpack the files. Whew!
Now I'll spend some time validating files, according to checksum information in the openMSX and blueMSX the data files.
In the past, I downloaded over 18GB of files. But after to work very hard to eliminate the duplicate files, I reduced the collection to 4 GB for now.
Finally, after obtaining this collection, I will do the final check and, who knows, I can upload a definitely well cataloged collection!
Hi, everyone, It realy works!