> > someone give me a good reason why anyone should hold a full romset. > > Because games are then forgotten or disappear. > > Tragedy can strike to anyone HDD falure, natural disaster, etc. > > The idea is to preserve everything, because as each days passes more and more > hardware fails or disappears, due to any number of circumstances. > > People disappear or move on as well. > > You can no longer take for granted that you or anyone can dump any game at any given > time.
I'm pretty sure the games that are in MAME are very well backed up many times over. There are probably more Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, etc. zipped ROM files than there ever were real PCBs. LOL