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Multi-System
BIOS files for RetroArch cores and Mednafen standalone: Main Backup
BIOS files for MESS 0.151: Main Backup
BIOS files for OpenEmu: Main Backup
BIOS and system Roms for PCem: Main Backup
Nintendo
Famicom (NES)
- Famicom Disk System BIOS Backup
Required for FDS emulation.
Super Famicom (SNES)
- Satellaview BIOS Backup
Required for some Satellaview releases. For bsnes and snes9x-sx. This is a modified BIOS with the replay limitation removed and an English translation for the town hub. - SuperDisc BIOS Backup
Required for Sony's SNES-CD emulation. For no$sns 1.6. - DSP1b Backup
Required only in recent higan/bsnes versions past 0.73. - SNES Coprocessor ROMs Backup
Required only in recent bsnes libretro versions past 0.92.
Nintendo 64
- Collection of N64 Emulators and Plugins Backup
- LLE RSP plugin for Project64
- pifrom.bin and N64DD IPL Backup
Required for 64DD emulation. For CEN64. JP version. - N64DD IPL US Version Backup
Required for 64DD emulation. Unreleased US region version.
GameCube/Wii
- GameCube BIOS Backup
Optional. Dolphin uses it to load the better original system fonts, but even without it it has (uglier) replacement fonts. - DSP-LLE for Dolphin Backup
Optional. Needed for more accurate low-level emulation of DSP audio. Required in Dolphin for connectivity with GBA units. A HLE solution removing this requirement exists, but is still incomplete. - Swiss-GC .dol Backup
Optional. Needed for 'native' widescreen. - Wii Network Certs Backup
Game Boy Color
Game Boy Advance
- GBA BIOS Backup
Optional. Required for a few games, homebrew, and connectivity with the GameCube. - E-Reader ROM: US, JP v2
Required for e-Reader emulation.
Nintendo DS
- NDS BIOS and Firmware Backup
Optional. Needed for NO$GBA. - DSi BIOS Backup
For DSi emulation. Required (NO$GBA). - DSi NAND Backup
For DSi emulation. Optional (NO$GBA). Improves compatibility. No easy way to dump from real hardware (make sure you upgrade the copy of NO$GBA included in that package).
Nintendo 3DS
- 3DS Extra Data Backup
Required to play some games with Citra. - 3DS Bootroms Backup
Required to decrypt encrypted games.
Wii U
- Wii U fonts (lacks three more fonts, but they're unused): Main Backup
Optional. Cemuhook has replacement fonts.
Goes under SharedFonts.
Needed for proper text display in some games. - Wii U Menu files, 5.5.2 (probably needs urgent mirroring away from mediafire): EU EU Backup, US US Backup, JP JP Backup
Optional. For Cemu 1.11.4+.
Goes under mlc01.
Needed for rendering Mii among other things.
Wii U Menu can be accessed from the .rpx undermlc01\sys\title\00050010\10040XXX\code\men.rpx
(where XXX is 000 for JP, 100 for US, 200 for EU) - Online files Backup
Optional. For Cemu 1.11.0+.
Needed for online play.
Lacks unbanned account.dat file unique to the console, but an account.dat generator and custom servers with lax authentification are WIP.
Switch
- Switch shared data Backup
Required to play some games in yuzu, and encrypted ROMs. - Switch SDK fonts Backup
Sony
PlayStation
- PS1 BIOS Backup
Required for some emulators like Mednafen. Copyright-free replacements (called HLE BIOSes) also exist for other emulators. (MD5 Hashes) - PS1<->PSP Save Converter Backup
Converts PS1 (.mcr) to PSP's PS1 (.vmp) save format and vice versa.
PocketStation
PlayStation 2
BIOS files Verify with these MD5 Hashes. hosted on:
These are required for PS2 emulation.
PSP
- Original PSP Fonts Backup
Optional. PSP emulators have replacement fonts, but they don't exactly match the originals as well as they should.
PlayStation 3
- PS3 LLE Modules Backup
- PS3 Fonts Backup
- Official latest firmware download for sprx files. Needed for RPCS3.
SEGA
Sega CD
- Sega CD BIOS Backup
Required.
Saturn
- Saturn BIOS Backup
Required for Mednafen. Optional for SSF (at the cost of compatibility).
Dreamcast
- Dreamcast BIOS Backup
Needed for nullDC. (MD5 Hashes) - Dreamcast/Naomi/Hikaru BIOS Backup
Needed for DEMUL.
Microsoft
Xbox
- Xbox BIOS and files Backup
Needed for XQEMU. - Xbox HDD Image Backup
Needed for XQEMU. - Xbox files Backup
For MAME (MCP-X bootrom included is a bad dump).
Other Systems
MSX (ASCII/Microsoft)
- MSX BIOS list, Machine Configurations + BIOS files
Optional for a number of cartridge games (covered by the unofficial C-bios file). Required for the rest. - System roms for openMSX (dead link - need for reupload)
Useful for emulating certain machines and extensions like the Panasonic FS-A1GT for example.- GNU/Linux and macOS: ~/.openMSX/share/systemroms
- Windows: C:\Users\your_user_name\My Documents\openMSX\share\systemroms
PC Engine/TG-16 (NEC)
- System Card Pack Backup
Required for CD-based games - [BIOS] PC Engine Super CD-ROM2 System V3.00 (Japan).pce is enough in most cases.
PC-98 (NEC)
- Font file Backup (Binary format)
For Neko Project II. Optional. Needed for some text displaying properly. - Font file Backup (BMP format)
For Anex86 and other emulators. Optional. Needed for some text displaying properly.
X68000 (Sharp)
- X68000 BIOS Backup
cgrom (font file) and iplrom are required. The others aren't.