WAV to cas/bin/rom

I'm very interested to find out why this wav doesn't run as-is on openMSX...

It would help to know what WAV/cassette you're trying to convert =)

The MSX cassette contains three kinds of files - tokenised, and non-tokenised basic (bas/cas) and binary blocks (bin). You can get those files with many of the several cassette tools, some of which have already been mentioned. However, if the cassette contains a custom loader, you're out of luck since AFAIK there are no tools to extract the custom blocks from the cassette (you can extract the loader, however, which usually is a single small .bin file). A similar limitation also applies to the the .cas format, as it can only contain blocks that follow the default MSX BIOS routines (someone with more knowledge may elaborate / correct me). It can, however, contain custom blocks that can't be converted into bas/asc/bin files (but still adhere to the MSX BIOS routine somewhat). Also, you might get problems, if your .wav file is a recording from a cassette in a bad condition. Try finding a tool called "regenerador" (or similar), in that case, it might help. If that fails, try recording the cassette again.

A cassette (or a .wav file) can not contain any .rom files btw.; only asc/bas/bin. However you can convert a rom into bin file(s), which could be saved to a cassette, but that is not trivial for a non-programmer (unless there's a tool somewhere I haven't found).

HTH

A .wav/.cas file can have any file format inside it, even .rom if you want. .Rom is just a binary file, after all.

You are right; however, the cassette specification has a limitation on the file size, but I might be wrong. Of course you still could put a .rom file into a cassette anyways, via the tools mentioned, but that would be unusable on a real MSX . Also I assumed the user is trying to convert an original tape, so he should not find other than cas/ldr/bin files on the tape (unless there's a custom loader).

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