by reading the ROM. He breaks the cartridges down in detail, discussing how they are constructed as well as how they can be addressed and read using the Arduino. He was ultimately successful ...

It’s something [Daniel1111] has done with his Arduino CD player, which uses the little microcontroller board to control a CD-ROM drive via its IDE bus.

The ATOM X1 is the world’s smallest 32-bit arduino and breadboard compatible microcontroller measuring 14.9×14.9mm and weighing 0.95 grams. 256KB ROM, 32KB RAM, 48MHz clock, arduino zero ...