is there a working gba emulater for the axim x51v - Page 2

Peedyay · 12-15-05, 05:37 AM

Emulators in general aren't illegal, neither are ROMs necessarily.

In most cases you can download free emulators and freeware/public domain ROMs and be perfectly legal. In fact, depending on the particular device and licenses, it's often legal to play copyrighted ROMs on an emulator as long as you own the original and make a backup for personal use only.

naber · 12-15-05, 06:31 AM

I am new to these gameboy etc. stuff, what is an emulator and what is ROM. I guess emulator is the program that you run ROM on, ROM is the actual game software, isnt it? Does this ROM have any effect on the ROM of X50v.

d0pefish · 12-15-05, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by naber

I am new to these gameboy etc. stuff, what is an emulator and what is ROM. I guess emulator is the program that you run ROM on, ROM is the actual game software, isnt it? Does this ROM have any effect on the ROM of X50v.

You got it right - the ROM is the game, and the emulator is used to load and run the ROM.

In fact, a ROM file is just a snapshot or "dump" of the contents of the real game cartridge's contents (say if it was a Game Boy, SNES, or NES game, or other cartridge consoles). If it's a CD-ROM that's used on the games console - eg. Playstation, you need a dump of the contents of the CD. Most people call these ISOs, as ISO is usually the file format used to encode a CD image.

The game ROM files won't do anything to your Axim's software ROM. That's a completely different and unrelated type of ROM to the ones we're dealing with here. :)

However, in a cool twist, you can get a Pocket PC emulator for a desktop computer, and run a Pocket PC ROM on it. :) That's usually used for making PPC software though. :)