ROMS I'VE DUMPED:

Have you ever wondered where all those roms for MAME came from? well, a lot of people have spent money and time dumping those games, but where's the credit eh? Its a thankless job, but someones got to do it. I can't be totally negative about it, as it gives me a misguided warm and fuzzy feeling inside to know i can play game X in mame instead of digging out the real pcb and hooking it up. The un-intended side effect is that thousands of mame-hounds also get to play it on their SCARY ABORTIONS that they call arcade machines :-) All these roms were submitted to the MAME-DEV FTP, most of which got drivers written for them by people i know, some drivers of which got 'edited' by someone else who got the 'credit' for the whole driver in the MAME loading screens.. but oh well, thats nerds for you. Some games may not have been added to mame for duplication or 'too close to another romset' reasons, but i think the vast majority got their own slot in mame.

Some may not have made it into mame... so look through and see what you think...

You will also notice that roms you find circulated in mame circles do not contain the original info textfiles that were originally there to aid in fixing the real things. This is another bugbear of mine in that MAME purports to be a tool in aiding the repair of the original games, yet it continually buggers with original rom naming conventions. It is perhaps the fault of the rom distributers that the text files included with the roms get erradicated from the zipfiles, but renaming rom names and not using manufacturers part numbers pisses me off the most.

What i would like to see is more rom files with relevant information on the pcb that they came from, not some generic 'bastardised for the masses' zipfile that doesn't help people fixing the real thing. Make the included files compulsory with each romset to run the game! why not? in big letters mame is supposed to be a tool for people repairing and preserving the real thing, so why not actually listen to people that do that instead of just using that excuse as a way of dodging copyright troubles?

Big Kong (galaxian hardware)
Donkey Kong on galaxian hardware version 2