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Title: Space Requirements for some ROMs
Post by: gbfanatic on August 31, 2010, 03:55:30 pm
I see that Pokemon Red version has "good compatibility," but when I run my Pokemon blue rom through "Drag your rom here!.bat," it gives me a 2.5 MB .8xk file, which will not fit on my 84+ or even an 84+ silver, am I missing something obvious here?

Thanks!
Title: Re: Space Requirements for some ROMs
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 31, 2010, 03:58:00 pm
Heya and welcome here :)

Generally, a 8xk file will be twice larger on the computer than it is on the calculator. Sometimes, it can go higher than that. If I remember, Pokémon Red is 1024 KB on calc. This means a TI-83+ Silver Edition and a TI-84 Plus Silver Edition manufactured before April 2007 can play it.
Title: Re: Space Requirements for some ROMs
Post by: gbfanatic on August 31, 2010, 04:00:20 pm
Heya and welcome here :)

Generally, a 8xk file will be twice larger on the computer than it is on the calculator. Sometimes, it can go higher than that. If I remember, Pokémon Red is 1024 KB on calc. This means a TI-83+ Silver Edition and a TI-84 Plus Silver Edition manufactured before April 2007 can play it.
awesome! thanks, I didn't realize that the 8xk's were expanded on the computer
Title: Re: Space Requirements for some ROMs
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 31, 2010, 04:07:31 pm
Yeah on the computer, if you attempt at opening a 8xk in notepad, it's almost just a bunch of pairs of hexadecimal characters (0 to 9 and A to F). When on the calc, each pair of char are 1 byte large instead of two.
Title: Re: Space Requirements for some ROMs
Post by: SirCmpwn on August 31, 2010, 05:20:18 pm
However, I would choose a different (and smaller) App than Pokemon, because something that big could quite well crash Notepad.
Title: Re: Space Requirements for some ROMs
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 31, 2010, 05:48:37 pm
Oh right, true x.x

Notepad really can't handle such large files, even on a i7 processor with 8 GB of RAM...
Title: Re: Space Requirements for some ROMs
Post by: gbfanatic on August 31, 2010, 05:58:50 pm
vim ftw ;)
Title: Re: Space Requirements for some ROMs
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 31, 2010, 07:05:38 pm
I never heard of that one, but usually whens omething won't open fine in Notepad, I just use Wordpad or Notepad++. Otherwise Notepad does the job.
Title: Re: Space Requirements for some ROMs
Post by: calcdude84se on September 01, 2010, 09:59:57 pm
vim is a text-based, touch-type focused CLI editor.
And yeah, apps are stored as a bunch of hex on computer