How does a game cartridge store information?

[Breetai]

10011011

9B

lol.

Is that what it comes out to? I don't remember how to convert those.

Me, neither. Nor do I really care.

[Jrecee]

I don't get it either, and I do not have the technical knowledge to understand or care. That's why elves assemble game cartridges, not americans.

[gtmtnbiker]

9B

lol.

Is that what it comes out to? I don't remember how to convert those.

I converted it to decimal first.

There's no need to do that. Hex is base 16. So you would take 10011011 and change it to:
1001 1011
9 B

A hex digit represents a group of 4 binary digits.

At some point in Computer Science, you'll learn the binary (base 2), octal (base 7, group of 3 binary digits), hex (base 16, group of 4 binary digits) number systems. You'll know how each hex digit looks like in binary and can convert back-and-forth without having to convert to decimal.

Binary is base 2
1011 is (1 * 2^3) + (0 * 2^2) + (1 * 2^1) + (1 * 2^0) = 8 + 0 + 2 + 1 = 11 (decimal) = B (hex)

Hex is base 16
9B is (9 * 16^1) + (B * 16^0) = 144 + 11 = 155

Computers work exclusively in binary. Octal/Hex is for human convenience to more easily represent large binary numbers.

[Hatta]

Yeah, I was going to say that too. Binary <-> Hex is much easier than Binary <-> Decimal.

For the OP, there's an article on ROM at HowStuffWorks.

[MrPopo]

octal (base 7, group of 3 binary digits),

Octal's base 8. The grouping's right, though.

[gtmtnbiker]

octal (base 7, group of 3 binary digits),

Octal's base 8. The grouping's right, though.

Yup, you're correct. Not sure why I said 7.