Questions tagged [game-cartridge]
For questions related to cartridge-based games and applications
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How to clean (or prep) Atari 800 or any old computer
I recently got my hands on a couple of Atari 800's and peripherals (disk drives, printer, cartridges, floppy disks). Before I start using this equipment, can someone point me in the right direction as ...
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Physically emulate Gameboy cartridge using Raspberry Pi? [duplicate]
This is an extension to the question NES cartridge rom emulation with arduino or pi?, which asked whether it would be possible to physically emulate a NES cartridge using an Arduino/Raspberry Pi (RPi)....
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What does "Expanded Memory" mean on a Philips Videopac G7000 game?
I bought a Philips Videopac G7000 because it looks awesome. Now I need to shop for some games.
I'm interested in this AAA+ title, Crazy Chase:
However, on the box it says EXPANDED MEMORY/MEMOIRE ...
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Game cartridges on the S-100 bus?
Many Z80 computers in the seventies and early eighties used the S-100 bus, into which you could plug many kinds of expansion cards.
Would it have been possible to plug suitably designed game ...
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Can removing a cartridge from an NES (or any other cartridge-based game system) damage the hardware or software?
On some cartridge-based video game systems (NES, Game Boy Color, etc.) it is possible to remove the cartridge while the game system is still powered on. What kind of damage can this behavior do to ...
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Why would older video games include fragments of source code?
One thing that was surprisingly common in older video games (around the same era assembly language was king) was the inclusion of uncompiled, plaintext source code in the ROM. You can see many ...
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How to get a dump of a particular ROM?
How do I create a dump of a Game Boy game so that I can have it for backup as a ROM?
I know that I can download the ROM (though slightly illegal) if I really wanted to, but I want to know "how" ROM ...
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Did all NES "Black Box" games come in carts with five screws?
When the NES was released, there were a list of original titles from Nintendo such as Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros. and Metroid.
These titles came in a distinctive box that was mostly black. Plus, the ...
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What cleaning/repair can be done to a Mega Drive cartridge slot?
My Mega Drive's cartridges rarely boot. It's to the point where I sometimes don't want to change the current game because it'll mean 15 minutes of me constantly taking out and re-seating the next ...
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Reconditioning and cleaning old Nintendo (and other) game cartridges
I used to blow the dust out of the cartridges but I heard that can actually damage the cartridge or the system itself.
I am looking for the proper way to clean old Nintendo game cartridges (such as ...
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Why use static RAM addresses instead of the stack?
I'm studying the 65c816 assembly for the 1994 game, Super Metroid.
A hobbyist studied the game in-depth and created a RAM map. From it:
7E:0B56 - 7E:0B57 Moves Samus this distance horizontally, ...
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