What is a ROM?

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What is a ROM?

Postby Dixie Diddy » November 11th, 2013, 7:51 am

don't know what a ROM is please inform me :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :facepalm:
Last edited by Qyzbud on November 16th, 2013, 10:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Renamed topic from "Am I dumb"
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Re: Am I dumb

Postby edevore » November 11th, 2013, 8:58 am

first off your not dumb and second:
I will keep this simple, when we talk about roms on this site we are referring to a console based read-only-memory - the donkey kong country series have hardware that has mountable snes executable and the data contained on the cartridge that is dumped on a computer is considered a rom... they can be emulated on multiple devices, pc using zsnes or snes98x -the android using snesdroid- or the apple devices using snes4ios these are "just a single banana out of a bunch" you can try out.

if you don't understand I am sure someone else willing to break this down for you so you can understand it better.
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Re: What is a ROM? (Renamed from "Am I dumb")

Postby Qyzbud » November 11th, 2013, 9:48 am

Edevore's right; a ROM (or "ROM image") is a file that holds all of the data from a game cartridge (except for the save games, which are not "read only"). It's basically a game stored as a single file, which can be played via emulator.

Further reading: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/ROM_image

I was confused by the name when I first got into emulation, and I was a high schooler! So, don't feel too silly. :diddywink:
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