For decades, arcade games ran on proprietary hardware. Pac-Man ran on a Zilog Z80 processor with custom tile-map generators. Street Fighter II ran on Capcom's CPS-1 board. These were "System-on-a-Chip" (SoC) or custom PCB (Printed Circuit Board) setups. To emulate these, you needed to "dump" the ROM chips (Read-Only Memory) containing the game code.
Instead of unique chips, modern arcade cabinets house heavy-duty computer cases running variations of Windows (often Windows Embedded or Windows IoT) or Linux. Major platforms include: arcade pc dumps
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