How did they actually get the game from the chips into a folder you use in an emulator on windows?Genuine question
Chips are basically physical versions of those folders. All they need is a device that can click and drag the data into those folders onto a PC.
>>12638607Wait till you find out that ROMs existed long before emulators, your world view will be SHATTERED
>>12638607At their simplest form those chips are just a collection of bits (ROM) with an interface (the pins) for input and output. If you input the right electrical current at some of pins (which usually includes a numerical address), the chip will output its contents through some other pins, then you just write those bits in whatever media.
>>12638607all those chips are modeled in software via logic gates. the catch is that there's A LOT of them. and then the rom file you execute is basically just a container file for all of them
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>>12638636where do the graphics go for something like metal slug?
>>12638739In the C ROMS (the top 4 chips) of the CHA256 PCB
wtf how did they get the sound from vinyl landscapes into a digital mp3??? tech is literal magic
>>12638919it is magical, unironicallyif you cannot feel childlike wonder at capturing audio into a solid shape and then converting that into an electrical waveform, something is broken inside you
>>12638636Man, I remember fixing arcade boards with mame ROM dumps burned to EEPROM chips when we would find ones that didn't pass CRC checks....Good times......
>>12638938Even more magical when you consider that DNA is just another kind of storage mechanism with the bits that make up our genetic profiles, and that the universe seems to be trending toward the increased preservation of information which will eventually lead to all matter in the universe being converted for this purpose and lead to an ultimate god state where all possible states can be simulated and exist forever within it.
>>12639772bypassing circuit breaks on a s2G..pfffeasy-peasy lemon squeezy
