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Ok to post nvram files?
« on: December 08, 2011, 10:40:21 am »
I'm hoping to do a writeup for driving games on the Supermodel emulator.

To change the country on these games, they made you press a crazy sequence of buttons.
Sometimes just a sequence, sometimes for a specific duration (like morse code).

It would be easier for people if I just attached my nvram files with the county codes already changed,
but I wasn't sure if they included game code and would be akin to posting roms.

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Re: Ok to post nvram files?
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2011, 02:06:04 pm »
I'm hoping to do a writeup for driving games on the Supermodel emulator.

To change the country on these games, they made you press a crazy sequence of buttons.
Sometimes just a sequence, sometimes for a specific duration (like morse code).

It would be easier for people if I just attached my nvram files with the county codes already changed,
but I wasn't sure if they included game code and would be akin to posting roms.

How big are they?

If they're standard tiny eeprom sizes they're not going to contain any game data, just settings.

If they're main RAM dumps (entire RAM battery backed up) they _might_ contain some game code if it gets copied to RAM before execution (common on 32-bit platforms as RAM is faster for execution)

If they're large Flash roms, programmed by the game (like CPS3, Seibu SPI) then they're basically the same as roms.