I searched "snatcher sega cd" and google suggested "snatcher sega cd rom"
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@foone Wait, I thought they were named after the spaceknight. /s
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@foone Huh. All this time I had assumed it was "International Standards Organization."
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@foone hold on, does that mean that if I took an “iso” with dd if=device of=file.iso that I can salvage the CD audio out of file.iso?
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anyway this has been annoying me for so long that 8 years ago I ported a version of Tetris to run off a ROM chip on an ISA card. Therefore I had a "ROM" of a PC game. I played it in an old 286 board with no drives attached, floppy, optical, or hard!
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@mhoye no, because that's making an ISO9660 dump, that's literally what an ISO file is, it contains no CD-ROM audio. That's in separate non-ISO9660 tracks
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@foone How do you pronounce "warez"? I always pronounced it like "wares" (like the last bit of "housewares"), but my little brother once pronounced it "juarez" (like the border town), and I previously just assumed I was right.
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. last edited by
@BoydStephenSmithJr I think everyone I know who pronounced it juarez was doing it for a laugh. I always pronounced it like "wares" with maybe making the "S" sound go on a little extra long
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@curtmack that would make logical sense, so of course that's not what it stands for
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@foone I actually like this, because it provides an example path by which the Neuromancer line about "hot RAM in the Hitachi" could become meaningful again.
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@foone nah, it was "kewl" ;o)
(that particular part of the 1990s -- where "kewl" was dropped in convo -- should rightfully be committed to the annals of history)
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@foone Now I’m curious if you could replace the BIOS chip entirely with a Tetris ROM
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@MidniteLibrary it'd make sense, but no. Rom first showed up in 1979, but ROM chips date back to the 60s
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@MenhirMike Sure. It'd be more work but it's doable.
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@yakkoj good point
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@bstacey oh my
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@glyph NO
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@foone but isn’t “dd if=device” making a bit wise copy of all the data on that device? I mean, I didn’t think dd knows what an iso is…
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@mhoye Nope. The audio tracks aren't exposed through that interface.
That interface is intended for access to the filesystem.This makes sense for Historical Reasons, where PCs would access the filesystem data, but the audio data just got played, and the CPU wasn't involved: The drive itself is playing the audio, and it's just being routed to the speakers (through cables, not software).
To pull the audio data off a disc, you need cdparanoia or EAC or something similar
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Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@foone how did it start the game code?
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Mind you, the emulator I'm using right now (BizHawk) doesn't help matters. It has a File->Open ROM menu item that'll open everything from an NES game to a PS1 disc image to an Apple II floppy disk image.
