Data retrieved from these cartridges are called ROM files.

Why? Older game consoles used a Read-only Memory (or ROM) chip to store game data. ROM (or ROM files): Copies of games originally meant for a console are loosely referred to as ROM files or just ROMs. In this case, it replicates the features and functions of a game console, which tricks games into running as if you had the original hardware. Here’s a quick rundown of what you need to know:Įmulator: An emulator is a program that mimics the hardware of a specific device. You can patch it to a clean ROM (which means you’ll play it in Japanese), or you can patch it to an already-patched translated ROM, either way it doesn’t matter, as the only data these patches touch is the 64 colors that the game uses as its palette data.Explaining emulation relies on a few technical terms that you might not be familiar with. These patches can be used in conjunction to any of the translation patches out there. That is why several patches were made, one that looks very close to an NTSC signal (palette called “Smooth(FBX) by FirebrandX), one based off the color palette that Nintendo uses for their NES Virtual Console titles, and another based off the palette used by the NES Classic Edition. But the way these colors appear can be different from one TV to another, whether it’s between NTSC and PAL, or RF/AV cables… so really there are no ‘true’ NES palettes. NES games don’t have any palette data, they just have ‘color assignments’ choosing from the NES’s 64 different color ’slots’. Several patches were made because there are no true NES colors due to the way it handles colors. This is a patch for *Mother 1+2* for GBA that restores the colors back to what they were on NES (for Mother 1 only, the Mother 2 side of the ROM is untouched). As some of you may know, a lot of GBA games have brightened, washed out colors in order to make it easier to see on an unlit GBA.

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