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readme wrote:Once you have a ROM, it needs to be converted with the included utility. It runs from the command line and has two parameters, plus an optional third parameter. The first is the name of the ROM file; the second is the on calc name you would like. This second name must be 6 characters or less. The utility will generate a number of files with the name you specify, appended with numbers. For example, if you run 'CartConvert mygame.gb mygame', you'll get files mygame00, mygame01, mygameXX. For this to work, mygame.gb will need to be in the same directory as CartConvert. The generated files will also be in this directory. The exact number will depend on the size of the original ROM. Send all these files to your calculator. They should be archived, but they don't have to be.

The optional third parameter is the flag "-pack". This will convert the rom such that it takes MORE space, but fits in fewer files. Normally, roms are packed in files of 48kb each. With the pack option, the base file size is 56kb, and then every other file is padded with 6000 very important extra bytes. Pack mode is useful, because archive memory is divided into blocks of 64kb. There are a limited number of blocks, and files CAN'T be broken up between them. So even if you have archive space left, if each block is filled with a 48kb file, you won't be able to archive anything else over 16kb. You should use pack mode if you're filling most of your archive up with gb roms, or other large files. You should use default mode if you want to archive lots of other, smaller files in addition to gb roms.

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