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Title: Noob rom question
Post by: BillytheGoat on August 04, 2018, 06:11:00 pm

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?

Title: Re: Noob rom question
Post by: JDFan on August 04, 2018, 08:24:41 pm

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.

Title: Re: Noob rom question
Post by: BillytheGoat on August 05, 2018, 10:03:35 am

Ok. Thanks for the clarification. :)

Title: Re: Noob rom question
Post by: matsadona on August 05, 2018, 02:03:10 pm

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.