The tiles are stored in a ROM chip on the game cartridge.
The ROM chip had to be inserted into the circuit in order for the sounds to register.
The set of samples was on a ROM chip.
However, its limitations became quickly apparent as larger ROM chips were introduced, allowing cartridges with greater than 128k of space.
ROM chips are used not only in computers, but in most other electronic items as well.
This program is available on disk and on a ROM chip.
Sometimes, the contents of a relatively slow ROM chip are copied to read/write memory to allow for shorter access times.
Through the 1980s and into the 1990s, much of the system software was included in the Macintosh's physical ROM chips.
The software cannot be upgraded by the user and requires a new ROM chip.
And once programmed, the data in the ROM chip could not be altered.