what's a rom file

[salehmeka]

Hey mates ...

during our use of emulation software we always use the word " rom " as word that represents a game file , a program file , or a devise brain .
what I want to know is : what's the real explanation of the word ROM ...
I'm confused :eek:


thnks

[savking]

Its just data I thought? Aparently "memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed". In other words its read-only. Im not sure if thats correct feel free to prove me wrong. But I can almost garantie that someone wont read the question properly and dive in and say a rom is a game or somthing along thosse lines (I nearly did:o )

[Kameo]

ROM - Read Only Memory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-only_memory

Read there, they explain it nicely ;)...

[salehmeka]

thnks folks ,

yes thats right , I know about ROM as an elctronic chip , but what I wanted to know is about rom images , so thnks for Kameo,savking and Wikipedia ;)




thnks again

[TecraMan82]

that sounds right yeah I always though ROM was seperate from an image, images ae usually larger and uncompressed they contain files that can be viewed, ie ROM
ask miamoto about it, he knows more

[chaos master]

yes, it is common knowledge that Shiguru Myamoto is the least busy guy in the Universe;)