I searched "snatcher sega cd" and google suggested "snatcher sega cd rom"

[foone@digipres.club]

@MenhirMike Sure. It'd be more work but it's doable.

[foone@digipres.club]

@yakkoj good point

[foone@digipres.club]

@bstacey oh my

[foone@digipres.club]

@glyph NO

[mhoye@mastodon.social]

@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…

[foone@digipres.club]

@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

[martin_piper@mastodon.social]

@foone how did it start the game code?

[foone@digipres.club]

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.

[foone@digipres.club]

@martin_piper the PC BIOS has long had support for something called "Option ROMs".

Basically after it finishes POST but before it tries to boot, it checks for any cards with ROM at specific addresses, and if it finds some, it executes them.

it's used to do things like initialize SCSI cards or network cards, in case you need to boot off one of them.

Instead of booting anything, my option ROM just played Tetris.

[kastor@shelter.moe]

@foone Wait, CD-*ROM* audio?
Is there such a thing as yellow book specific audio tracks?
I thought that audio tracks not being part of iso dumps was because they're plain old red book CD-DA

[foone@digipres.club]

@kastor whoops. that was a typo. I meant CD-Audio.

But yeah, it's red-book audio vs ISO-9660 files.

[faassen@fosstodon.org]

@foone
got to get me some msdos rom warez

i still have my simearth box with 3.5 inch floppies and populous. they are, um, yeah roms. trying to sound young here

[larymir@chaos.social]

@foone now I really want to know about your feelings regarding the usage of ROM (e.g. stock ROM, custom ROM) in the context of Android(-based) OS

[foone@digipres.club]

@Larymir I'm not a huge fan but it's harmless enough

[foone@digipres.club]

@faassen

[pichu0102@raru.re]

@foone @MenhirMike How about replacing a BIOS configuration tool with Tetris so you have to play Tetris in specific ways to change settings?

[foone@digipres.club]

@Pichu0102 @MenhirMike that'd be fun. like that old kernel module configurator that meant you could use a text adventure to configure your kernel

[vxo@digipres.club]

@foone now I'm just imagining this on one of the HP Z820 (?) workstations we used to have where the Option ROM output got put in a little picture-in-picture looking window on the bios screen that was labelled "Mini OROM Display..." and it's just got Tetris in it

[rebeccafinn@topspicy.social]

@foone so, you might be younger then... Because x86 isn't the only PC!

[specialist_being_677@hachyderm.io]

@rebeccafinn believe me, @foone knows, challenge not the Foone. Here PC was just shorthand for IBM PC and compatible.