> OK thanks for the infos, with all due respect you modified the dsp firmware images > for various reasons which you consider legitimate and that's your right, while MESS > didn't modify the images. Personally I am going along with the MAME and MESS way of > not modifying images for any reason.
Yup. We use the DSP images exactly as they come from popular device programmer/readers. Hence if you can find a field-programmable 7725 the MESS images will allow you to make replacement (or, perhaps more intriguingly, modified) SNES DSP-1s with no further work. I happen to think these readers prefer sub-optimal formats in many instances (e.g. 16-bit wide ROMs for big-endian systems have their bytes swapped and 772x dumps have the 0xFF padding) but standardization and consistency trump ideology for ROM formats.
This is what helps keep MAME from being a completely dirty word with the cabinet collecting "big boys", incidentally. Our ROM set is their repair workbench.
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