Where can download the tool for BIN to SMD?

zhengyaxin_8bit · Post by **zhengyaxin_8bit** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 2:46 am

What's smd file? why there have two types file in MD?

Chilly Willy · Post by **Chilly Willy** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 4:53 am

SMD is a crazy format derived from saving roms individually back in the really old days of MD cart backup. Early carts used two roms - one for each byte of the word the 68000 bus addresses. Dumping the roms separately means each file has every other byte. Early dumpers saved 8KB from one rom, then 8KB from the other rom, then back to the first rom again until the roms were dumped. So SMD files have 8 KB blocks of every other byte. It's a huge pain to deal with, so most folks use plain binary dumps.

If you have any SMD files, I suggest converting them to plain binary using something like ucon64.