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How are there 4TB of ROMs? Does that number include non ROM dumps like CD, DVD and BD games too?
by mattl 5y ago
How are there 4TB of ROMs? Does that number include non ROM dumps like CD, DVD and BD games too?
- joemi 5y agoCD, DVD and BD are all ROMs too. In a computer (and therefore videogame console) sense, these all are technically called CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, and BD-ROM.
- mattl 5y agoI’d think of them as ISOs. But I can see why they’d be considered ROMs too.
- Jetrel 5y agoYeah. The storage medium changed so much, but the functional shipped object was still "a chunk of read-only memory containing the (probably) sole version of a game that got shipped to a market". I too tend to think of ROMs as strictly images of non-volatile chips, alone, but it's interesting that when we're in computer emulation territory, it's really only the size that's different; a CD iso feeds into a PS emulator pretty much the same way a rom file feels into a SNES emulator - it's just a document.
- mattl 5y agoI guess it’s complicated by the notion of ROMs needed to boot machines like BIOS dumps and then software.