repoMan wrote:
I've some RX-78 carts; but I haven't found a way to dump them (I don't want to open them as they would be probably damaged in the process, they seem glued hard). The idea is to plug the cart disabling the ROM start and from the monitor, save the binary to CMT. Usually tapping a pin in the cartridge does the trick; but the cartridge connector pinout is unknown, at least for me.
The only person I know has dumped RX-78 game carts is Takeda and he won't share them so that won't help us. You could try emailing him asking about the cartridge pinout or the dumping process he used, I think he wouldn't have any problems helping you out with that since you do own the games. I can try asking Robbbert as he might know the pinout too since he was involved in the MESS RX-78 driver. I'd definitely be very interested on seeing some games preserved for this system.
Other alternative would be opening a cart and figure the pinout, but that seems to be out of question. If I was able to buy one game I would do just that
The BS-Basic rom is available in the MESS set btw.