Roms?

[kknd_cf]

I'm not asking for them or anything before anyone gets pissy. I was just curious how the code is got for them in the first place. Is it nabbed from some company(I doubt this). Or is it released by the company. Or(this is the one I think is right btw) does somone have a cart reader and puts the code on their computer? :huh:

 

[finty]

i think you have a card reader and copy the contents of the cart onto your HD, but you dont get the code or anything.

 

[kknd_cf]

Ahhh fair enough. How do they get the code then?

 

[Akuma no Houkon]

They dont get the code. All they get is the "compiled image". Which the emulators then interpret.

 

[finty]

i dont think they do. why do you want code?

BTW: im not to sure on this so dont flame me if im wrong.

 

[Ernest]

I used to have a card reader thingy for n64 cartridges but i sold it seeing as my pc cud barely run the games when put thru an emulator so i just stuck em back in my n64 instead, now theres a pointless little story!!!

 

[Squidge]

There are plenty of dodgy sites that used to (some still do) sell a piece of hardware where you simply put the game cartridge in the top, and a floppy disk in the front, and it copied the cartridge to the floppy disk. You could then put the machine onto the original games console, along with the floppy disk and play the games without the cartridge. Worked well until the N64 came along, at which point the copying hardware gained a pc connection (to copy the cartridges) and cd-rom drive (to play them without the original cartridges). Needless to say, any carts that had additional hardware didn't work when copied.

 

[finty]

are floppy disks not 1. something megabytes? how does a rom fit on that? or can you get bigger floppy disks?

 

[Dozer]

are floppy disks not 1. something megabytes? how does a rom fit on that? or can you get bigger floppy disks?

He said before n64, so nes, sms, snes etc roms, which are smaller.

 

[Ernest]

There are plenty of dodgy sites that used to (some still do) sell a piece of hardware where you simply put the game cartridge in the top, and a floppy disk in the front, and it copied the cartridge to the floppy disk. You could then put the machine onto the original games console, along with the floppy disk and play the games without the cartridge.

Well that wud be quite good to have, although i prefer owning real copies, especially when it comes to my old skool games!

 

[Akuma no Houkon]

My buddy had one for SNES, it was awesome, his dad got it in asia for $500 (this was many many many years ago...) and it used floppy disks to back up the games, which meant some took two, three and four disks. You could also use it to play games using the floppies, although you would have to update your "copy" with the new version which included the VRAM eachtime you wanted to stop playing and keep your save.

It was great, he got it for the rent / copy / return of SNES games. (tsk tsk tsk)

At that time I had never heard of emulation, I had no idea about creating roms, and neither did they. I dont think there were any emulators that actually played SNES games at that time...

 

[NssOne]

I saw a contraption that hacked out an old genesis slot and core and had a serial cable on it. I'm not sure how it worked, but it would read and copy the data offa genesis carts.

 

[Akuma no Houkon]

Well this SNES one just sat in the SNES cart slot, and you placed the game in it, kinda like a game genie only it was much larger more like the 32x adapter for Genesis. No hacks required.

 

[Ernest]

Are these still available to buy or have they long since been gone?

 

[Akuma no Houkon]

Are these still available to buy or have they long since been gone?

Most are not manufactured anymore, only ones for newer systems or things like GB/GBC/GBA are still "available" And even those have disapeared from many known sites like Lik-Sang.

 

[Ernest]

Do you reckon it wud be possible to find them on ebay, as im at skool at the mo and the sites blocked!!!

 

[Akuma no Houkon]

Do you reckon it wud be possible to find them on ebay, as im at skool at the mo and the sites blocked!!!

Not that hard to tunnel throught blocks like that.

You MAY be able to find them on ebay, most of them were "illegal" however, and only able to purchase on the black market. Ebay tends to not allow things that are illegal or could possibly be illegal. Although many do slip though the cracks.

 

[finty]

Not that hard to tunnel throught blocks like that.

how do i get through the blocks?

 

[Sponge BoB]

Ive tried evrything i can think off to get through that. It seems more or less impossible to me( im sure it is possible i just dont know how ). wht would u try akuma? Is it possible to gt kazaa bittorrent or irc workin, thats what i really want.

 

[c0ncept]

try The anonymiser

I think that would get you through the block