> I don't want to discourage you from dumping games but unless there is some policy > change in MAME for newer PC game to make them just use the CPU in people's PC on them > directly like running a regular PC game instead of emulating the original game's CPU > like every current game in MAME is done
I don't think there will be changes. the output would be different on each machine, destroying accuracy.
> then this will never run in MAME in our > lifetime. A "powerful" system in MAME is Naomi, it ran at 200 Mhz originally and is > dog slow on high end computers in emulation. That P4 system was probably ~2.5 Ghz.
still a dump of the disk would e.g. allow to other people to repair a cabinet, which is something valuable even if we cannot play it at full speed on nowadays systems...