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Posted by Android on January 17, 2002 at 23:28:06:

In Reply to: Re: No, i ... posted by Peter on January 17, 2002 at 23:01:02:

Pretty simple indeed: all you have to do is locate and remove the EPROMs (the roms that contain the program code), plug them into an EPROM reader (available at your local Fry's or electronics shop) which is connected to your PC and voila. That's all you need to do to get your roms in your hard drive. That was the easy part, the tough one is to emulate in software the PCB that you just discarded.

-- Android

: Thats what I thought but do you know how, or where I could buy the technology to hook a PCB up so I could download the software code?

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: : The original PCB's contain rom chips with the software code for the game on them. People use special hookups to read this data and store it in a file on a PC. Voila, a rom-file is born.
: : Then MAME reads that info and acts on it the same way the original PCB would, thus emulating the game.
: : So MAME takes the place of the hardware, and the ROM file is the actual software code from the rom chips on the board.

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: Pretty simple indeed: all you have to do is locate and remove the EPROMs (the roms that contain the program code), plug them into an EPROM reader (available at your local Fry's or electronics shop) which is connected to your PC and voila. That's all you need to do to get your roms in your hard drive. That was the easy part, the tough one is to emulate in software the PCB that you just discarded. : -- Android : : Thats what I thought but do you know how, or where I could buy the technology to hook a PCB up so I could download the software code? : : : : : : The original PCB's contain rom chips with the software code for the game on them. People use special hookups to read this data and store it in a file on a PC. Voila, a rom-file is born. : : : Then MAME reads that info and acts on it the same way the original PCB would, thus emulating the game. : : : So MAME takes the place of the hardware, and the ROM file is the actual software code from the rom chips on the board.

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