After testing many programs I made this selection of the best tools I found in order to ease the MSX development.

All these tools are free or free to use under its respective licenses.

This pack is mainly focused for:

• Hardware & Software preservation
• Reverse engineering
• Fixing/repairs Software & Hardware
• Casual backup
• Debugging and programming

You are the only responsible of the fair use of these tools....

WARNING!!!!!

Some tools works ONLY under MSX-DOS2 with 128KB.

I did my best in order to include the best tool with the widest compability but space is limited, sorry....

The tools I have included are:

DSK PRO LIGHT (Marcos Daniel Blanco) Unprotected disks only (DSK)

DSK PRO (Marcos Daniel Blanco) Also supports protected disks (PDI)

DMK CREATOR (Marcos Daniel Blanco) Supports protected disks (DMK)

FDSAVE/FDLOAD/FDCOPY (K. Tsujikawa) Command line tool for Disks/DSK

TINY SLOT CHECKER (Tiny Yarou) Shows slot map & backup (ROM)

SAVEROM/GETROM (BiFi) Allows custom backups (ROM)

MGSAVE/MGLOAD (K. Tsujikawa) Command line tool for ROM files

CHUPIN (Marcos Daniel Blanco) Backups cartridges

TAPE2CAS/CAS2TAPE (Martos) Dump/Restore Tape to image (CAS)

ODO (Ramones & Manuel Pazos) Runs cartridge backups (ROM) in RAM

EXECROM (A&L Software) Same of above but more advanced

TRCAS (Martos) Load real tapes via PCM in Turbo R

LOADCAS (Martos) Load CAS files as real tapes

LOADCASX (Manuel Pazos) Same as above (supports MFR/TurboR)

OPF/OPFX/OPFXSD (Manuel Pazos) Tools for Megaflashrom hardware

FL/FL8/FLK4/FL16/UC (K. Tsujikawa & GDX) Tools for generic Megaflash family

YAMAFX/YAMAFXEN (FX) Tools for Yamanooto hardware

MSX COMMANDER (Retro Canada/KDL) DOS2 File manager (FAT16 supported)

ONEDRIVE (A&L Software) Clears phantom drive (same as CTRL)

HELP2 Lists included tools

Z80BENCH (NataliaPC) CPU Speed Test

SECTOR0 (Jamsoft) Writes DOS1/DOS2 Boot Sector

CHKDSK (Microsoft) Repairs broken floppy file systems

TESTRAM (A&L Software) Tool for testing RAM/VRAM

EPROMTST (Aquijacks) Tool for testing EPROMS

AKID (ASCII) Text editor for MSX2

SIDEKICK (Ronivon C.Costa) Text editor for MSX1 (40 mode only)

KONPASS (Konamiman) Assembler IDE & Debugger/Monitor

XSC/XSD (XelaSoft) De/Compressor for XSA/XSD files

PMARC2/PMEXE2/PMEXT (Yoshihiko Mino) De/Compressor for PMA files

UNARJ (Atlan) Decompressor for ARJ files

LHEXT/LHPACK (Kyoju) De/Compressor for LHA files

ZIPPIT (PGN) Compressor for ZIP files

SOFAUNZIP (Louthrax & Graw) Decompressor for ZIP files