Editing ROM image (section)

{{Short description|Data dump from a ROM chip}}
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[[File:Intelligent-Systems-Nintendo-DS-Nitro-Burner.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Photo of a burner shown as a blue colored box with eight slots on top, and a cartridge is in one of the slots.|[[Intelligent Systems]] ROM burner for the [[Nintendo DS]]]]

A '''ROM image''', or '''ROM file''', is a [[computer file]] which contains a copy of the data from a [[read-only memory]] [[Computer chip|chip]], often from a [[ROM cartridge|video game cartridge]], or used to contain a computer's [[firmware]], or from an [[arcade game]]'s [[arcade system board|main board]]. The term is frequently used in the context of [[Video game console emulator|emulation]], whereby older games or firmware are copied to ROM files on modern computers and can, using a piece of software known as an emulator, be run on a different device than which they were designed for. ROM burners are used to copy ROM images to [[Computer hardware|hardware]], such as [[ROM cartridge]]s, or [[ROM chip]]s, for [[debugging]] and [[Quality assurance|QA testing]].