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Say I acquire an atari 2600 rom that works on mame. Then say I pick up a non-mame atari 2600 emulator. Can I use the same rom or are these roms usually emulator specific?
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ROMs are dumps of the original game eproms as they were programmed onto the chips inside the game PCB - so should be useable across emulators as long as the emulator was made to use the original game files.
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Ok. Thanks for the clarification.
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Not applicable in this particular case (Atari VCS/2600) but keep in mind that different MAME versions might require different ROM sets - in case you didn't know already.
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