how do you know what file types a rom image is suppose to be, if there isn't a file extension? My rom files do not have extensions. Tried burning them to ROMs and they didn't work. I have several extensions I can burn it as. I tried .bin and that didn't work. Is there a way to tell what format the images are saved as?
Open the file in a hex (bin) editor and see what you see. The format of the file will be a clue there.
Quoted from CaptainNeo:i take it my burner software isn't capable of doing that.
A lot aren't - there are free applications online that you can use. Frhed is a good one.
what are they for? Can you upload them here legally? I've never heard of roms not being distributed as binary files... Though I guess intel ascii hex files would be a possibility. That'd be easy to tell though because it'd be human readable
take a look at the rom images on ipdb.org for scramble. neither the Pinmame versions or the other ones submitted have any file extensions.
http://ipdb.org/search.pl?any=scramble&search=Search+Database&searchtype=quick
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