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Your question raises suspicions that you may not fully understand what a "ROM" is - let me explain.
ROM means -R-ead -O-nly -M--emory, which is generally a type of solid state memory chip where the program and data for a game cart (or arcade game PCB) are stored. The contents of these chips are only read, not modified, by the system that runs them. ROMs are found in all your game carts, SNES, Genesis, Gameboy etc. So the term ROM is much older than emulation.
A ROM file on your computer is a copy or "dump" of the program and data contained on the original game cart, PCB etc. It's is NOT something created by emu programmers - that's a common misconception with some newbies.
So, using the above as a guide, generally speaking ROM files used for PC emus are exactly what you'd use on GP32 emus.
ROM means -R-ead -O-nly -M--emory, which is generally a type of solid state memory chip where the program and data for a game cart (or arcade game PCB) are stored. The contents of these chips are only read, not modified, by the system that runs them. ROMs are found in all your game carts, SNES, Genesis, Gameboy etc. So the term ROM is much older than emulation.
A ROM file on your computer is a copy or "dump" of the program and data contained on the original game cart, PCB etc. It's is NOT something created by emu programmers - that's a common misconception with some newbies.
So, using the above as a guide, generally speaking ROM files used for PC emus are exactly what you'd use on GP32 emus.
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Just to clarify 8.3 format means the rom name can be a maximum of 8 characters long followed by a . and 3 letters which identify rom type IE XXXXXXXX.pce for pc engine .smc for snes etc, but you probably already new that.
Ahh, you don't have to rename them if you copy them via a card reader.
The filenames will look ugly on GP32 (e.g. SUPERM~1.SMC), but it works.
I just don't know why anyone doesn't include the reading of long filenames
(according to the windows method) on the GP32... they long filenames ARE on the card,
when I open it with my card reader, I can read them.
The filenames will look ugly on GP32 (e.g. SUPERM~1.SMC), but it works.
I just don't know why anyone doesn't include the reading of long filenames
(according to the windows method) on the GP32... they long filenames ARE on the card,
when I open it with my card reader, I can read them.
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For Xcade you have to pass the ROM files through another program that converts them to a proprietory format.
Actually, th GP32 doesn't oblige long ROM names to be changed into BLAHBL~1.smc . YOu can check that in frodo if you load up a long filename in Frodo, they stay long. I think it would be nice if all roms did that, it's kind of a paint to have the name cut up, mainly when you have hundreds of roms and it's hard to identify them with acronyms.
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(self-plug) Don't forget, if you're renaming a BUNCH of ROMS to 8.3 format, you can use my GP Renamer v1.0, which is free, and can rename a whole directory full of "long file names" to 8.3 format in a second. I wrote it when I downloaded GP2600 and had to convert 500 Atari 2600 roms from long file names to short.
http://gp32.GamesPage.com
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ahah i'm customised!
Or you can get the pc link hack which changes any file you copy onto the disk to the 8-3 format.
