Someone asked about reverse engineering game consoles and file formats on ELI5 and I gave a brief (real) example on how you'd start reversing a file format "cold" just from the data. Figured some folks here might find it useful:https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/awqkgw/eli5_how_did_rom_files_originally_get_extracted/ehosxr9/?st=jssrcf6o&sh=f3ba2663 …
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Good explanation there but.. What about how to read from the cartridge itself? What kind of hardware/software tools are used? Or do you also tear it into pieces to check the guts and chipset? Gracias!
It's basically the same idea, except instead of a file in a hex editor you hook up a logic analyzer to the cartridge port and look at the trace and try to figure out how it works. Eventually you build your own hardware to attempt to read the carts, e.g. with a microcontroller.
