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The MSX was a personal computer released by Microsoft in 1983.

Emulator: fmsx-libretro, bluemsx-libretro

es_systems.cfg

<system>
    <name>msx</name>
    <fullname>MSX</fullname>
    <path>~/.emulationstation/roms/msx</path>
    <extension>.rom .mx1 .mx2 .col .dsk .ROM .MX1 .MX2 .COL .DSK</extension>
    <command>%HOMEPATH%\.emulationstation\systems\retroarch\retroarch.exe -L %HOMEPATH%\.emulationstation\systems\retroarch\cores\fmsx_libretro.dll "%ROM_RAW%"</command>
    <platform>msx</platform>
    <theme>msx</theme>
  </system>

ROMS

Accepted File Extensions: .rom .mx1 .mx2 .col .dsk

Place your MSX ROMs in

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/msx

BIOS

For FMSX:

BIOS	System
MSX.ROM	MSX BIOS and BASIC
MSX2.ROM	MSX2 BIOS and BASIC
MSX2EXT.ROM	MSX2 ExtROM
MSX2P.ROM	MSX2+ BIOS and BASIC
MSX2PEXT.ROM	MSX2+ ExtROM
FMPAC.ROM	FMPAC BIOS
DISK.ROM	DiskROM (BDOS)
MSXDOS2.ROM	MSX-DOS 2
PAINTER.ROM	Yamaha Painter
KANJI.ROM	Kanji Font

see here: http://fms.komkon.org/fMSX/

For Bluemsx:

You need the Machines and Databases folders- you get them by downloading the full zip file from here http://www.bluemsx.com/ and copying them over.

Place your bios files/folders in

\.emulationstation\systems\retroarch\content

Controls

Many games will have varying keyboard controls.

Extra Notes: The original Bluemsx does support colecovision, but the retroarch port does not yet- it needs to be added into the core options in the code before it will work.