MAMEWorld Forums - Programming - Re: Where to find game disassemblies?

> Hello all,
>
> In the process of writing MAME drivers, etc. it is often necessary to disassemble
> game ROMs. I was wondering if there was anywhere to which these commented
> disassemblies were uploaded? Since it takes considerable effort and time to do these
> disassemblies, it would be a shame if these weren't uploaded somewhere...
> Does anyone know of any site which has these available?
> Many thanks...

You'd be surprised how little disassembly actually happens as part of writing a typical driver. To my knowledge nobody's ever done anything close to a comprehensive disassembly for anything in MAME[1], just isolated bits of code that were causing trouble with the emulation. Part of that's because MAME's built-in debugger is a lot better than average for hobbyist emulators (it allows adding comments to the code, for instance), although I do keep IDA Pro close at hand when I need to see more forest and less trees.

[1] There are commented disassemblies out for Pac Man and some other simple early games, but those weren't associated with MAME.