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HELP NEEDED - BIOS and APP ROMs for NEC Multispeed HD?

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First post, by Retroplayer

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I am restoring an NEC Multispeed HD which is missing the ROMs and I am hoping that someone has made a dump of these ROMs somewhere so that I can make replacements. If not, is there anyone here that has this machine and is willing to make dumps?

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Reply 1 of 2, by Horun

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Is it like this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/235083546546 ?
Will look around but doubt anyone dumped the roms but never know....curious why would pull the roms unless they felt there was no hope in fixing it...
if you are serious about getting one working it might be worth having a second one for parts.

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Reply 2 of 2, by Retroplayer

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It is the hard drive version of this, which appears to use different ROMs. Original owner probably pulled the ROMs for the same reason I am asking for dumps.

They probably took the roms to fix another one because they couldn't find dumps. The hard drive version is pretty expensive and a bit more rare. I purchased this one relatively cheap compared to the prices I have seen them going for. I don't even see one listed on ebay at all right now.

Somebody somewhere has had to have dumped the ROMs or has one right now and can dump them. If I need to find another one, I will wait and keep watching. But I will also experiment with the Universal BIOS project in the meantime.

This is the one I bought. You can see the ROM socket in the last picture.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/166236555347

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