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I was finally able to get mine to boot via USB.

I had to get an original melco boot disk, then I used winimage to make an image of it and then wrote that image to the USB drive.

My guess is when copying just the files over, you're missing the boot sector.

I used this emulator that was $40 shipped I chose it because it was offered on Amazon prime with 2 day shipping.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N7MTOIF/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_tRZQybF4DGH6P



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The conversion to USB seems rather simple, I would like to do it on a Melco EMC 1

My first question lies in the "boot disk", I have the files from the earlier reply but as one user said...

For everybody who is still struggling how to convert Melco to USB, follow next steps:
The USB stick has to have ONLY TWO FILES!
Once you unzip the file from tommyfilyh, you're going to have 6 files
1.edsapp9d.rsa
2.edsapp9e.rsa
3.edsapp9f.rsa
4.INST ( windows file - you don't need!)
5.INSTALL( windows file - you don't need!)
6.MELCO.SYS
Melco EMC10T needs ONLY edsapp9f.rsa and MELCO.SYS
However, it depends what year is the machine made - so you're going to have to RENAME this file to edsapp99.rsa. My machine was made 1998 and I had to rename it!
The same is with the other types of Melco machines. Always only two files (you have three there, it might happen that you will need different one than I used)


Which boot files do I use with my EMC 1?

My second Question is, What 34 pin Floppy ribbon cable should I get? And what power cable should I get since it seems I need to go Female on the USB converter to Female on the board itself.

I have included a picture of the board.
 

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So right now I'm working on getting the EMC1 embroidery machine working. I got the floppy emulator hardware today in the mail.

So I hooked everything up and was making progress,
1. The screen would say "INSERT BOOT DISK"
2. I would insert the USB then press start and it would say "BOOTING DISK"
3. It would say "NOT CORRECT FILE!" (or something like that)
4. Then go back to "INSERT BOOT DISK".

So I turned off the machine and flipped the floppy cable over as suggested online. This didn't help so I flipped it back. And now I cant even get it to say "BOOTING DISK". I just feel so stupid I was making progress and now I'm not going anywhere! Please help!
 
Read exactly my explanation. Once you have only these two files(edsapp9f.rsa and MELCO.SYS) on your USB, rename the edsapp9f.rsa to edsapp99.rsa. Because I had Melco EMC 10t - I used edsapp9f.rsa. Maybe you need edsapp9d.rsa or edsapp9e.rsa . However, I think you should then correct file to rename to edsapp99.rsa.
Maybe you should format the USB first to fat32.
Important - once you plug the USB into the emulator, on the screen ( emulator) should be something like "d0". While this is ON, you should press Enter to boot the disk.( you have 4-5 sec)
 
I tried most of the ideas shown in this post. I had the original boot disk, so the one that worked was to download a program where I could make a shadow drive from the floppy and copy it to the USB which I formatted at FAT32.
Thanks to all those that have given their time to make this happen. It is so much nicer with the Floppy Emulator installed.
 
I recently inherited a melco EMC1 single needle machine and it hads an old computer that has the phone looking cable from the computer to the machine and running Edsez. Worked for a while. Long story short. The computer died. Now looking to convert the EMC1 to USB. I purchased the 720 emulator and now I am in need of boot disk files. I know that the files must be in the computer somewhere. I am hoping someone out there would be kind enough to point me in the right direction or if someone could get me the files I need to make the machine boot. I tried files found online but get a "boot disk error" message.
Can anyone please help?
 
I got the machine to boot from a USB thumb drive last night. I found all of the rsa files on the edsez installation disks put them on a thumb drive along with a sys file. I guess the machine will load the rsa file it needs. There must be 20 different files on the thumb drive. If any one is interested I have edsez disks, starlan card, printer Port dongle that was run in a Windows 98 or 95 computer. Cant remember which. I will be willing to sell.

The floppy emulator I ordered out of China from e bay for $15 shipped , ordered the ribbon cable there too $2.50 shipped. Made my own power cable. And had a older Memorex 128 mb USB thumb drive laying around.
 
CC encoder means Color Change encoder. On the top of the machine is a small LED which is ON (look at it from the top of the machine). Use a screw driver and turn the screw (on the side of the machine - behind the main head) until this LED is off. It means that CC encoder is set up to position. If this doesn't work, it may be that CC encoder is bad.
 
Ok, so get ready for another long post, but I think this one should be the last! This will be to wrap up all of the problems I knew I had and how I fixed them so someone someday won't go through the same hell that I had to put myself through.

I have deleted my previous post but I am incorporating it into this post because the last one was in error.

This is the process I followed and what I learned...

1. I recently acquired a Melco EMC 1M (single head machine) which I did the USB conversion on.

2. You will need to try multiple flash drives or find one that has been assured to work earlier in these posts. I have 8 flash drives that I gathered from around the house and 3 of them worked.

3. I have a whole bunch of files and I determined that you need "edsapp93.rsa" and "MELCO.SYS" from the list below (Graciously provided by invitro59 in another thread).

4. Now I'm not sure if its just me but I got it to work off of multiple flash drives when I ordered the "MELCO.SYS" before the "edsapp93.rsa" on the flash drive. So I think as far as the EMC 1M is concerned ORDER MATTERS!

You can determine from the list below what you need for your machine. I have all of them so if you need one PM me.

EDSAPP80.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMC-6
EDSAPP81.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EM-1
EDSAPP83.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE MC-1
EDSAPP84.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMC-6/4 (TAJIMA HEAD)
EDSAPP85.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE LE-1
EDSAPP87.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE CH-1
EDSAPP88.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMC-6/4MT (OLD CPU)
EDSAPP89.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EP-1
EDSAPP8A.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMC-6M
EDSAPP8C.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMC-6/4M (OLD CPU)
EDSAPP90.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMC-6MTL
EDSAPP91.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMC-6ML
EDSAPP92.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMC-1MTL
EDSAPP93.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMC-1M
EDSAPP94.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMC-6/4MT (NEW CPU)
EDSAPP95.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMC-6/4M (NEW CPU)
EDSAPP97.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE ADVANTAGE 18
EDSAPP98.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE CH-1 (New Style VER 2.03)
EDSAPP99.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMC-10T (Ver 1.09)
EDSAPP9A.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMC-10 (Ver 1.09)
EDSAPP9B.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMC-10/4T (Ver 1.20)
EDSAPP9C.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMC-10/4 (Ver 1.20)
EDSAPP9D.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMC-10/4TCE (Ver 1.20)
EDSAPP9E.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMC-10/4CE (Ver 1.20)
EDSAPP9F.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMC-10TCE (Ver 1.02)
EDSAPPb0.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMT-10T (Ver 1.14)
EDSAPPb1.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMT-10/4 (Ver 1.12)
EDSAPPb2.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMT-10/4T (Ver 1.12)
EDSAPPb3.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMT-1 (Ver 1.13)
EDSAPPb4.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EP1B (Ver 1.03)
EDSAPPb5.RSA RSA FILE FOR THE EMT 10TF1 (Ver 1.14)
RSA.COM RSA FILE FOR THE EMC10/12
RSACE.COM RSA FILE FOR THE EMC10/12 CE

5. Before you start trying your flash drives you will want to check that your machine has the correct settings.
A. Once it is powered on you will want to press and hold, all at the
same time, the [UP ARROW] + [DOWN ARROW] + [ALT].

B. This will bring you into the initial machine settings. YOU NEED
TO SELECT THE PROPER MACHINE USING THE ARROW KEYS!!!


C. I found out the hard way that you can in fact boot your physical
machine with the wrong machine selected in this menu. I booted
mine initially as an "EMC10/4CE V1.20" and used "edsapp9e.rsa"
renamed to "edsapp99.rsa"

D. Thankfully mine threw me an error which was "BAD CC
ENCODER!!" which means bad color change encoder. This is
because my machine only has one needle and doesn't change colors
automatically like the EMC10/4CE.

6. Ok now that you have all of that set, once the machine reads "Insert boot disk" on the LCD display you can try your first flash drive.
A. Insert your first flash drive.
B. Press the small black button on the right of the emulator so the
red emulator display reads "d0" (meaning download).
C. Simultaneously press and hold the enter button on the
EMC1.
D. It should now boot or give you an error.
E. If this doesn't work repeat with your other flash drives.

If anyone has any questions or need any files please don't hesitate to ask. I don't want you to have to go through all of the anguish I had to. I don't think this is me signing off forever but not it's time to actually try to make something!
 
I was just given an EMT10T, it came with a SFRM72-FU-DL that the previous owner had tried to use without success. Wondering if I should try with this one or just order the SFRM72-FU?
 
Hello, can you send me the files. I am trying to boot several Melco machines. Without luck until now. I have the proper emulator. Thank you and happy holidays.
 
Does anyone have a copy of the RSA files for the EMT 10T? I’ve tried the download link listed above but can’t get it to work properly. Thanks
 
I just wanted to tell you how truly grateful I am for this! I just replaced my floppy with the correct USB and it all worked the first time! Took me about 30 minutes.

I really appreciate all the time that you took to post this and for all the comments helping everyone out.

Happy Holidays to you!
 
I've already PM'ed a few people but if anyone has the files for an EMC6-MLT 1-head, I'd be much appreciative. I'm trying to get this thing up and going in the 30 days trial time I have to see if it works.



Thanks


Eric
 
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