Alena Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 I try opening retro roms on 8-Bit Workshop (or Notepad) to hack, and I get encrypted garbage. Does anyone know how to fix this? I want to see how games looked to the programmers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glurk Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 ROMs for the 2600 are not encrypted at all. But they are the pure binary representation of the 6507 code run by the machine's processor. These are created by writing source code, and then compiling/assembling that. To get source code BACK FROM the binary ROM is a laborius task, and labels and variable names, and comments have to be added, essentially "guessed at" but in an intelligent way... This has already been done for many games, and a member here has helpfully done these: https://github.com/DNSDEBRO/Disassemblies/tree/main/Atari2600 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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