What are ROMS and how do they work?

Question

What are ROMS? I know they're like where you can play video games on your PC, but I don't know how they work or how to download them. I would like to download a couple of GBA games on to my PC, but I'm not sure if it will harm it or what it will do to my system. Any info anyone could give me would be appreciated.

Answer 1

they are games that people have designed to work on your computer. they don't cause any harm to your computer as long as the site that you donwload them from iis "trusted"

Answer 2

i use to download them when i was in middle school back in the day. i know you need an emulator, which is like an adaptor program that allows you to play the files, and then the actual files are ROM files. so you download the file and then open it up in the emulator and you play the game. i havent done that though for probably 10 years (super nintendo was the popular thing then) so i dont know about safety and legal risks anymore (since the copy right crackdown a few years ago). a lot of that crap is from rogue websites and is full of viruses/trojans/spyware, but if you find a trustable site then they probably wouldnt harm your computer

Answer 3

dude rom is read only memory its a type of memory chip that contains the computers startup instructions now to download gba games in your computer if you can find some posible way to download them they should have no harmful effects to your pc

Answer 4

for the roms to work you will need a good Emulator which is basically like and system (e.g gameboy nintendo etc) then you drag the roms to the emulator and it should play

Answer 5

One thing all the previous answers don't mention is that they are highly illegal and are punishable by imprisonment.