Re:Show HN: Kirby's Dreamland 2 level viewer, in JavaScript
by gravypod on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @01:58PM
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How did you dump the rom?
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Re:Show HN: Kirby's Dreamland 2 level viewer, in JavaScript
by mattdotc on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @04:00PM
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Chances are he didn't. Verified dumps are all over the internet.
However, a sufficiently motivated individual can create cartridge dumpers with hardware like Arduino and a broken Game Boy (to harvest the socket for convenience). The cartridges for most/all game systems are widely understood by this point thanks to the efforts of reverse engineers.
Of course there are also pre-built dumpers available through various sources. They are not unique to the present-day. Even when the SNES and Game Boy were still selling on shelves, there were devices created specifically for copying cartridges to alternative storage such as floppy disk or custom cartridges.