Irem Arcade Hits - farmerbb/RED-Project GitHub Wiki

Irem Arcade Hits contains 18 arcade games produced by Irem. The collection can be purchased on the Mac App Store here, with the Windows version available for download from Game Fools here (purchase) or here (trial version; contains all ROMs).

All 18 games in this compilation can be extracted and run using FinalBurn Neo, though some fail to run with latest version. All roms appear to boot and run with mame 0.170.

ROM Extraction Instructions

Mac Version

  1. Open up a terminal window inside the folder where you would like to save the files.

  2. Install the Homebrew package manager using:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
  1. Install the required dependencies by running:
brew install node wget
  1. Download the dotemu2mame.js conversion script by running:
wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/cxx/81b9f45eb5b3cb87b4f3783ccdf8894f/raw/5b5e677d2d904071888fe7ea08a83c50ab9ba1cb/dotemu2mame.js
  1. Run the script using:
node dotemu2mame.js /Applications/Irem\ Arcade\ Hits.app/Contents/Resources/Data
  • The converted games are saved as *.zip files inside your terminal's current directory.

Windows Version

For Windows, follow these instructions using WSL.

  1. Open up a terminal window and navigate to the to the "gamefiles\Games\roms" folder inside your Irem Arcade Hits install.
  • For WSL, the easiest way to do this is to open the folder in Windows explorer and type bash into the address bar.
  1. Install the required dependencies by running:
sudo apt install nodejs zip wget busybox
  1. Download the dotemu2mame.js conversion script by running:
wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/cxx/81b9f45eb5b3cb87b4f3783ccdf8894f/raw/5b5e677d2d904071888fe7ea08a83c50ab9ba1cb/dotemu2mame.js
  1. Download another script that converts the game files to the Mac format that dotemu2mame.js uses:
wget https://github.com/farmerbb/RED-Project/releases/download/tools/irem-convert-win-to-mac.sh
  1. Run the Windows-to-Mac script with:
chmod +x irem-convert-win-to-mac.sh
./irem-convert-win-to-mac.sh
  1. Finally, run the dotemu2mame.js script with:
node dotemu2mame.js converted
  • The converted games are saved as *.zip files inside the "roms" folder.