Need your help: ROM file sizes

[nightwulf]

Yep, I need your help. I need to know what file sizes of RBI ROMs are floating around out there. Just browsing around through mine, I found files of the following sizes: 98448 bytes, 196624 bytes, and 262160 bytes. If anyone has a RBI ROM that is a size not listed above, and if you have the time, please mail me a copy at the_nightwulf@hotmail.com.

The editor I'm working on is an online project, and I'm working to allow users to upload completed ROMs they already have. If other sizes exist than the ones mentioned above, I'd like to know so I can add support for them to the editor.

Nightwulf

[Gantry]

Here's my beta (actually alpha, still watn data in it) tech page, that has the 4 roms I know about...

http://dee-nee.com/rbi/tech.shtml

[nightwulf]

Ooh, while I think of it, that 98448 ROM size is incorrect. The ROM header indicates a 96k ROM, so the file size should be 98320 bytes. So where'd the extra 128 bytes come from? Small ad from our friends at vimm.net. It's tacked onto the end of the ROM for no apparent reason.

Nightwulf

[Gantry]

I would say that you should incorporate the ability to upload 98320 byte ROMs as well, I'm sure they are out tehre.  In fact I would remove the vimm.net stuff when saving, or possible add your own promo.  But either way look out for 98,448 and 98,320

[nightwulf]

As far as my script is concerned, the 98448- and 98320-sized files are identical. Rather than looking at the file size, the script reads the .NES header and uses the information there to compute the range of data. Either could be used and the data taken from the ROMs would be identical. The extra 128 bytes at the end of the vimm.net ROM would not be read and essentially would disappear.

Thought everyone'd want to know they're advertising vimm.net tho.

Nightwulf

[Gantry]

Kinda crappy, but they are the only ones with the half size ROMs that I see....

Just googled and downloaded a bunch of ROMs, all of them so far are 262,160...

[nightwulf]

No biggie really, you can kill the last 128 bytes of vimm.net's ROM and it's all the same.

Nightwulf