• plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works
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    19 hours ago

    Uhh, no, you literally modify the source rom, if you have the source code for the console it’s child’s play. Lots are made with dev kits, or their stolen code.

    And you don’t use an emulator at all. What you’re suggesting means that game could only be played on a singular emulator with a particular bios setting. You could do that, but why?

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      14 hours ago

      I’m comparing ROM hacking to decompilation. Decomp completely renders the full source code as readable and compilable for new binaries. ROM hacking doesn’t go that far.

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        9 hours ago

        Decompile is even easier than rom hacking… since you have the rom source code now…. So you can insert files instead of just replacing or the slightly more work of modifying (which you claimed isn’t possible…?)

        Why would you ever work through an emulator?

        You’re using an audio book, but it’s actually more an album, you can change the tracks on the cd, but you can’t easily change the song in the middle, but just like an audiobook, you can mute or just delete the content, you’re saying you can’t do anything, this is just wrong on every level. Rom hacks ARE still able to do this though. Although most just replace files with others by changing the whole data.

        A rom or iso is just a compilation of files that’s read and interpreted by the emulator or console. Why are you thinking it’s a singular file like an audio book? It’s more of a .zip file.