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Mame .65
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11-02-2003 11:33pm#1
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Being that i havent downloaded mame for an age, i just downloaded .65 to sort out what was new. Gotta say, I HATE the way they keep changing the romsets around. About 30% of the small collection of mame roms i have no longer work, granted i could sit there and experiment with the sets until i get the correct files renamed....but i don't want to.
The old saying "if its not broke, don't fix it" comes to mind, whereas mame have "if its not broke, rename the entire romset so all the files have no relation to what they once were and make it run slower each time we do this (smashtv)"
Altho they did add shadow dancer which means i can finally stop playing it without sound on system 16, pity the megadrive version is totally different and so much better
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Nah, well the last binary i can find that i had downloaded was .52.
But i suppose i may have just downloaded it to try something as MAME has never been way up there on my priorities seeing as i'm running a 500.
Taking a look thru the whatsnew's shows that they do this "change sh1t" quite regularily.
I'd be alot more interested in MAME in general if i had a machine that could handle the newer games, as i know many ppl would!
As it is, it floats in and out of my computer round about once a year, when i feel the need to play a little rastan.....actually, warrior blade ( rastan saga 3 ) , anyone out there with this know if its heavy on the old cpu, as i can't be bothered downloading if it is 0 -
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Meh, i know diddly about MAME, i'll get to understand it when i can afford a machine that can run most of the stuff i want to play.
As for the dumps.... thats not the reason, some games are redumped to fix issues or if the original dump is incorrect. But alot of the sets are renamed to suit the mame developers. In alot of cases they take roms that were emulated on other emulators first and leave the set as it is, a year or 2 passes and they change it to suit mame, or to suit the actual chipsets that were originally on the board. If you wanna call that being exact, fair enough. Does get hella annoying tho 0 -
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I asked Paul Priest (Tourniquet), a mame developer had to say about the redumps:
> As for the dumps.... thats not the reason, some games are redumped to fix issues
> or if the original dump is incorrect. But alot of the sets are renamed to suit
> the mame developers. In alot of cases they take roms that were emulated on other
> emulators first and leave the set as it is, a year or 2 passes and they change
> it to suit mame, or to suit the actual chipsets that were originally on the
> board.
Yes, if all we/they had to go on is a previous dump as used in another emu then you have to trust the rom names from that dump. If we subsequetly have access to a board or another dump that includes better info on the rom names and/or positions then they get updated.
The only other thing is when more roms get added (proms, dumps of protected devices etc.) or when the parent set gets changed.
"But alot of the sets are renamed to suit the mame developers"
Well, yes if it increases the information content of MAME. That's it's whole point afterall.
People don't rename roms or change them for the hell of it. There's usually associated discussion and reasons given when changes are submitted, but without access to the development list he wouldn't be privy to that.
Besides, what is his problem? Has he never heard of clrmame/romcenter?
> If you wanna call that being exact, fair enough
Not exact, exact is ideal and this isn't an ideal world.
If it was we would have all dumps of all revisions of all games with correct names and locations
So...now we know !!!0 -
Originally posted by deadl0ck
I asked Paul Priest (Tourniquet), a mame developer had to say about the redumps:
"but without access to the development list he wouldn't be privy to that.
Besides, what is his problem? Has he never heard of clrmame/romcenter?
So...now we know !!!
Used to talk know a bloke who had quite a bit to do with mame in trinity, plus used to talk to haze a bit.
As for clrmame....i think we've already seen that i know bugger all about it. Besides that i was 'almost' spot on 0 -
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