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Porting Games From Binary

Posted by michael on from the meaningless-and-time-consuming-are-our-middle-names dept.

CowboyRobot writes "My favorite Slashdot links are those that inspire me to embark on meaningless and time-consuming quests. This is one of them. Two Canadian game developers at Digital Eclipse have a thorough explanation of how to port a game using nothing but the binary stream coming out of the cartridge. They use the TRS-80 and Phantasy Star III as examples."

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  1. Emulation by DigiShaman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's called ROM dumps and Emulation. Nuff said.

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  2. Re:You should talk to the guys at MAME by Trigun · · Score: 0, Redundant

    whoops, they're talking about removing the emulation layer. Mod me down, -1 dumbass.

  3. Is that porting? by Kjella · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sounds a lot more like emulating to me. Run the binary stream on a virtual machine that works like the old device...

    Kjella

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