At 6:44 PM +0100 10/7/00, Thomas Jentzsch wrote:
>i was always wondering, how many real different games
>where programmed for the 2600. [...] i wrote a little
>Borland Pascal program which compares rom-dumps.
I agree with the other posters; this is pretty neat.
>Though these tests are far from being perfect, they
>should help to get some answers about the history
>of those roms:
>- which original rom was used for a clone/hack?
And to see exactly where the logo is in cases where
just the logo was hacked. That way I could rehack it
and introduce a line of RussVision games. :-)
>- were has code been reused for different games
>(Brick-Kick and Pac Man, Mythicon)?
Did you cross compare every game to every other then?
If I had "abundant resources" I'd get a SQL system up
and running with every known game ROM, and start looking
for differences in released and/or pirated games. See
how many actual different programs were out there. I
think 1075 is probably a bit on the small side just
because most variations won't have been dumped.
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