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  2. ROM hacking - Wikipedia

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    The majority of ROM hacking is done on NES and SNES games (including Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) games to an extent), since such games are small and simple compared to games of more advanced consoles such as the Nintendo 64 or Nintendo DS. Games for the Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance are also popular for hacking, as well as games ...

  3. ROM image - Wikipedia

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    Intelligent Systems ROM burner for the Nintendo DS. A ROM image, or ROM file, is a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip, often from a video game cartridge, or used to contain a computer's firmware, or from an arcade game's main board.

  4. Game Genie - Wikipedia

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    Game Genie is a line of video game cheat cartridges originally designed by Codemasters, sold by Camerica and Galoob.The first device in the series was released in 1990 [1] for the Nintendo Entertainment System, with subsequent devices released for the Super NES, Game Boy, Genesis, and Game Gear.

  5. R4 cartridge - Wikipedia

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    It allows ROMs and homebrew to be booted on the Nintendo DS handheld system from a microSD card. This allows the user to run homebrew applications, to store multiple games and MP3 music files on a single memory card, and to play games that have been backed up by the user.

  6. Video game console emulator - Wikipedia

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    The emulator subsequently uses the BIOS dump to mimic the hardware while the ROM dump (with any patches) is used to replicate the game software. [7] ROM files and ISO files are created by either specialized tools for game cartridges, or regular optical drives reading the data. [16]

  7. GameShark - Wikipedia

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    GameShark is the brand name of a line of video game cheat cartridges and other products for a variety of console video game systems and Windows-based computers. Since January 23rd, 2003, the brand name has been owned by Mad Catz, which marketed GameShark products for the Sony PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo game consoles. Players load cheat ...

  8. RetroArch - Wikipedia

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    Game ROM scanner – Automatically constructs playlists by comparing the hashsums of a directory's files against databases of hashsums of known good game copies; [25] Libretro database of cores, games, cheats, etc.; [26] OpenGL and Vulkan API support; Run-ahead – Hide the input lag of emulated systems by using both savestates and fast-forwarding;

  9. Cheating in video games - Wikipedia

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    Cheating in video games involves a video game player using various methods to create an advantage beyond normal gameplay, usually in order to make the game easier.Cheats may be activated from within the game itself (a cheat code implemented by the original game developers), or created by third-party software (a game trainer or debugger) or hardware (a cheat cartridge).