DS Homebrew Terms

[abeisgreat]

Ok i am making a homebrew website for NDS GP2X DC and maybe GBA. And I just have a couple of questions concerning the correct terminology.

1) Does Rom refer to commercial games or is it simple a game file?

2) It there a specfic word for homebrew games?

Thanks

[racketboy]

Ok i am making a homebrew website for NDS GP2X DC and maybe GBA. And I just have a couple of questions concerning the correct terminology.

1) Does Rom refer to commercial games or is it simple a game file?

2) It there a specfic word for homebrew games?

Thanks

I've heard the term "homebrew ROMs" used many times, so I assume that is correct.

[abeisgreat]

ok thanks

[opethfan]

However, if someone just says ROMs, you can usually assume they're talking about commercial ROMs.

[abeisgreat]

Well Pdroms.de calls em roms but they only have homebrew

[Curlypaul]

The term refers to a file which contains a binary dump of the contents of a cartridge, which is traditionally a ROM chip although DS/GBA carts which I assume must have EPROM chips. So yeah if someone were to say that they had some ROM files I'd assume they meant commercial games but it could also be correctly used to talk about homebrew titles as well.

[abeisgreat]

Ok so calling them Roms is ok?

[Curlypaul]

Yes I should say so

[abeisgreat]

alright thanks

[fastbilly1]

PDroms, or Public Domain roms, is what I have referred to them as since I first found Joltima, back in 94.