Game title | Genre | Rating | Downloads
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Metal Gear (Europe) | 4,1 | 30,985 | 85.8KB | |
Metal Gear 2 - Solid Snake | 3,7 | 9,949 | 322.6KB | |
Super Rambo Special | 5,0 | 5,551 | 57.6KB | |
Contra | 3,4 | 3,896 | 72.6KB | |
Vampire Killer (Japan, Europe) | 4,0 | 3,009 | 76.1KB | |
King Kong 2 - Yomigaeru Densetsu | Action | 4,9 | 2,759 | 83.0KB |
Treasure Of Usas, The (Japan, Europe) (Alt 1) | 4,3 | 2,381 | 93.8KB | |
Zanac Ex | 3,5 | 2,312 | 52.5KB | |
Metal Gear | 4,1 | 2,066 | 86.9KB | |
Aleste | 4,2 | 2,012 | 113.3KB | |
Vampire Killer (Japan, Europe) (Alt 1) | 4,2 | 1,881 | 76.1KB | |
[BIOS] Kanji ROM - JIS 1st+2nd Class | 4,7 | 1,602 | 133.8KB | |
Bubble Bobble | 5,0 | 1,595 | 65.7KB | |
1942 | 4,7 | 1,588 | 63.7KB | |
Super Load Runner | 4,9 | 1,540 | 65.3KB | |
Treasure Of Usas, The (Japan, Europe) | 4,7 | 1,529 | 93.8KB | |
Elthlead | 4,5 | 1,450 | 68.7KB | |
Ganbare Goemon! - Karakuri Douchuu | Action | 2,5 | 1,344 | 86.1KB |
Kikikaikai | 4,5 | 1,334 | 55.1KB | |
Nobunaga No Yabou - Sengoku Gunyuuden | 4,0 | 1,304 | 309.0KB |
The MSX 2 Roms (also known as the MSX2, MSXII or MSM5232) is a standardized home computer architecture.
MSX2 Roms was a widely used standard for the 'Osborne Effect' and one of the most popular 8-bit home computers in Europe and South America. The standard defines:
MSX Video game consoles were more popular than Nintendo and Sega in Japan during the 1980s. One reason was that computers like MSX (and SG-1000) were marketed as video game console primary target audiences instead of personal computers. Console games only became mainstream in Japan at late 1980's with Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)'s overwhelming success both commercially and critically. At that time PC market was much smaller than today and Japanese developers focused on arcade machines or video game consoles, not personal computers which have been long popular in USA & UK markets.
Here are a list of games that you must try if you have an MSX2 emulator or hardware:
Before you can play the rom game file on your emulator software or hardware, you need to convert/ compress it into an ZIP or CSO format. Or if you have extracted it already (WITHOUT converting it into a CSO or ZIP format) then the emulator should load the original rom game file without any problem.
Emulator software can behave differently when comes to compatibility with certain games. The more compatible ones include MagicEngine , BlueMSX , FCEUXD SP & XP, TAC-2 Multi Emu . Some other emulators may work well but not all of them are able to play every single MSX 2 Roms Game ever made! If you find which one works best for you please let us know so we update this article accordingly. There are only few emulators that can run 3D roms games, if your favourite emulator can't do that then why not try RIN ? It's a rom game file compression and decompression tool which is able to convert your MSX rom games into .CSO or .ZIP files.
Retroarch PS1 emulator for PlayStation Portable supports MSX2 games via ePSXe plugin.
Fpse CE is one of the best Sony PSP emulators for Android. It supports MSX 2 roms through a free add-on package. If installation process doesn't work, try installing each file separately.
If you want to play Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty , Policenauts or Snatcher on your PC you will need a MSX 2 emulator for Windows.
PCSX2 is the best MSX 2 emulator for Windows, here are the steps to install it:
If you want to play MSX 2 roms games on your Android smartphone or tablet, you will need a MSX 2 emulator for Android . I recommend fPce , it's free and has many features — on main menu select ROM -> Import Folder (FOLDER) , then select the folder with MSX 2 Roms. ROMs must be in .rom or .iso format.
If you want to play MSX 2 games on your Apple Macintosh computer, you will need a MSX 2 Emulator for Mac OS X . I recommend fPce , it's free and has many features — on main menu select File -> Open ROM (rom file) , then select the file with MSX 2 Roms. ROMs must be in .rom or .iso format.
If you want to run MSX 2 games on your Linux-based operating systems, you will need an open source MSX 2 emulator for Linux . I recommend fPce , it's free and has many features — on main menu select File -> Open ROM (rom file) , then select the file with MSX 2 Roms. ROMs must be in .rom or .iso format.
In this article you can find detailed information about MSX 2 roms, MSX 2 emulators for Windows 10, MSX 2 emulators for Android, MSX 2 emulators for Mac OS X and MSX 2 emulator for Linux. Also the steps to install PCSX2 are explained in details - so you will have no problems using it.