Space Requirements for some ROMs

[gbfanatic]

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!

[DJ Omnimaga]

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.

[gbfanatic]

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

[DJ Omnimaga]

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.

[SirCmpwn]

However, I would choose a different (and smaller) App than Pokemon, because something that big could quite well crash Notepad.

[DJ Omnimaga]

Oh right, true

Notepad really can't handle such large files, even on a i7 processor with 8 GB of RAM...

[gbfanatic]

vim ftw

[DJ Omnimaga]

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.

[calcdude84se]

vim is a text-based, touch-type focused CLI editor.
And yeah, apps are stored as a bunch of hex on computer