TIL Game Roms and how Games were dumped
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if you took the ROM chip, chopped off the top, and zoomed way in, you'd find that the silicon looks like this.
— foone (@Foone) August 14, 2019
There's a bunch of little transistors arranged so that some of them encode 1s and some encode 0, and there's some circuitry to determine which part is read out. pic.twitter.com/cEYOk27g6A
IN CONCLUSION, THE CORRECT TERMINOLOGY FOR PIRATED GAMES:
rom-cart based: ROMs
floppy-based: images
file based: files(warez?)
CD/DVD-based: ISOs/disc images
VIA:
https://twitter.com/foone/status/1161733088591765506
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