Capcom Arcade Hits

I've been playing around with binwalk after hearing about this tool from benske2 on this thread https://github.com/shawngmc/game-extraction-toolbox/issues/26 It turns out that it is not only useful for several of the XBLA demos like Altered Beast, Shinobi, etc. but it also works flawlessly with older PC CD rom collections.

For example on Capcom Arcade Hits Volume 3

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Capcom_Arcade_Hits_Volume_3

On this collection you will find a couple of files named gunsmoke.bin and command.bin. If you open these up with a hex editor, you will find garbage. The file is only 233kb and not big enough. However, if you put these in the target folder where you extract files for binwalk you can use the command binwalk -e gunsmoke.bin This will create a folder entitled _gunsmoke.bin.extracted. Inside will be 2 files. One will be called 8 which is 690kb and 8.zlib which is 233kb (the latter is just a copy of the original binary and may be deleted). If you open up the 690kb file with a hex editor and copy and paste you will be able to extract all of the roms from gunsmoke except for the last 2 proms g-10.02j and g-05.01f The roms are in the order from top to bottom corresponding to the link below with the exception of gs14.11c (the bgtiles rom) which is at the very end of the file (the last 32768 bytes) after the 8 proms. See this for the order:

https://mame.spludlow.co.uk/Machine.aspx?name=gunsmokeub

A great way of extracting these is with the tool binman here: https://www.jammarcade.net/programs/

You don't need to do any deinterleaving with this one. I assume the other files on the other collections here are extractable as well but I have not tried:

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Capcom_Arcade_Hits_Volume_1

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Capcom_Arcade_Hits_Volume_2

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Capcom_Coin-Op_Collection_Volume_1

By the way, the Hanaho disc linked below has MAME roms right on it (just like Taito Legends, Taito Legends 2 and NeoGeo Humble Bundle Collection). The only one that does not work on this collection is SonSon, but you can find the missing rom on the XBLA xbox live arcade Capcom Arcade Cabinet trial in the .xex files. You can extract it with XeXtractor v.1.03

I hope this helps.

Sorry, I forgot to link to the Hanaho disc:

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Capcom_Coin-Op_Classics_Series_1

Makes me wonder how many working arcade games that can actually be extracted from all those early 00s compilations.