Author: shalroth (wwwcache-c.lmu.ac.uk)
Date: 07-26-2001 16:42
I wondered the same thing...
I don't think so because if you remember it didn't always work, I remember getting at least 2 fried variations of Spiderman, but mostly it would give me lines on the screen.
Frying works because not all the charge in the RAM has leaked away, when the power comes back on the RAM is refreshed but some of the memory cells have leaked and are reinitialised - the pattern of tha cells that was refreshed gives a fried game. For some reason, probably due to the design of the chips in the 2600, the charge leaks away in the same pattern sometimes.
The emulator would need to reset certain memory locations to zero to fry the game, and since the pattern wasn't predictable that would be difficult - but you can't randomise the memory because sometimes the memory randomised the same way if you see what I mean!!
Someone prove me wrong?? Please??? I loved that Spiderman variant, it was wicked difficult!!
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RE: do any emulators simulate frying the game