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Re: Can't Run Willow
12/04/14 12:47 AM
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> And for the record, it's might be these that you're missing: > > "buf1" size="279" crc="eb122de7" > "ioa1" size="279" crc="59c7ee3b" > "prg1" size="279" crc="f1129744" > "rom1" size="279" crc="41dc73b9" > "sou1" size="279" crc="84f4b2fe" > "wl24b.1a" size="279" crc="7101cdf1" > "lwio.11e" size="279" crc="ad52b90c" > > They're dumps of the programmable logic devices that were used on the arcade boards > to determine how memory and the video chips were accessed, among other things. > > ROM sets can and do change between versions due to bad dumps being corrected or > undumped chips subsequently becoming dumped. In this case it's the latter. While the > Capcom CPS-1 driver does not currently make use of the data on these chips, it's > important and desirable to have this data documented in MAME, because it largely > exists as accurate hardware documentation that people can - and do - use for > repairing their own arcade boards that have developed faulty ROMs or programmable > devices. Previously MAME was largely limited to only preserving ROM dumps, but there > has been a general push towards including the data from other programmable devices on > the boards as well. > > As there are plenty of torrent sites out there that provide torrents of up-to-date > complete ROM sets, having this data documented in MAME effectively incentivizes the > duplication of said data, ensuring that it won't be lost in a historical void as > things have in the past. Unfortunately for you, the MAMEWorld forums disallow > explicit posting of direct ROM links due to the fact that forums have in fact been > targeted in the past for copyright violations due solely to content linked on them. > About the most anyone can tell you is that if you're looking to download individual > ROM sets, you're out of luck, your best bet is a torrent site. Any decent torrent > software will even allow you to select just the individual files in the torrent that > you want, so you won't even have to download the whole > multiple-tens-of-gigabytes-sized full MAME ROM set.
I nominate this post as the most friendly/accurate/precise answer to any question asked so far !!!
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