Shove the wrong cart into yer system!

[kirin jensen]

One of the more interesting things about emulators for early systems is that the ROMs are dumped as binary files and readable by emulators for other early systems.

Thus you can put an O2 game into your Atari emulator -or vice versa. The results usually are a nonworking game, but once in a while you just get... weird stuff happening.

Has anyone else ever done this?

[cyberfluxor]

Oh ya, I've tried it before but never worked. What combinations were you using to have the oddities?

Emulator version & the game ROM plus the system it's ment for.

:)

[kirin jensen]

I used CyberStella and O2EM with the Windows frontend.

You would have to go through quite a few ROMs as most simply show a blank screen.

Also hit the controller keys and/or the reset/difficulty switch keys as well. Sometimes that will start a sequence of weirdness happening.

Any .bin file should be playable through these emulators (probablly the INTV emnulator as well, though I haven't checked) - or for the 2600 you could play through one of those carts that lets you download a Rom from your computer to your 2600...

[rbudrick]

You'll probably have slightly better luck with systems that use the same processor/instruction set.

-Rob

[Blitzwing256]

another fun thing you can do with emulators is try to load differnt save ram or save state files in differnt games, can lead to some fun effects (bizzare stats, messed up levels items you can't normaly get)

[cyberfluxor]

another fun thing you can do with emulators is try to load differnt save ram or save state files in differnt games, can lead to some fun effects (bizzare stats, messed up levels items you can't normaly get)

Fun stuff there. It would be nifty to hit the jack-pot on some games by loading other saves. my friend more so inspects a save file with a HEX editor and mods it though that to figure out effects.

[Blitzwing256]

checksums are the biggest bitch when editing save files (or outright switching them)

ultima exodus is a great place to start with btw.

[Ed Oscuro]

checksums are the biggest bitch when editing save files (or outright switching them)
Hmm, yeah.

For ROMs in the wrong systems...on a Windows machine you might need to change the extension to get it to read in (it'll grind to a halt anyway).

[PentiumMMX]

another fun thing you can do with emulators is try to load differnt save ram or save state files in differnt games, can lead to some fun effects (bizzare stats, messed up levels items you can't normaly get)

I did that with Pokemon Red!
I took my save file from PKMN Blue and loaded PKMN Red with it. The area I was in was really glitched up, but after exiting and returning, it was working.