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Re: Nominated for The Strangest Question of 2015 Award
04/10/15 03:48 AM


> > Emulated arcade games don't lose fidelity when they are compressed. Like for
> example
> > a jpeg image or an MP3.
> >
> > S
>
> That is why I was asking....because jpeg or mp3 compression reduces quality.

It's not the same thing.

If zipping, unzipping and rezipping ROM dumps somehow altered the data within, then you'd just have a bunch of useless files that would no longer load in any emulator, or on original hardware.

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* Merged versus split sets dman777 04/10/15 02:35 AM
. * Nominated for The Strangest Question of 2015 Award Sune  04/10/15 03:04 AM
. * Re: Nominated for The Strangest Question of 2015 Award dman777  04/10/15 03:19 AM
. * Re: Nominated for The Strangest Question of 2015 Award Sune  04/10/15 03:48 AM
. * Re: Nominated for The Strangest Question of 2015 Award SmitdoggAdministrator  04/10/15 03:40 AM
. * Re: Nominated for The Strangest Question of 2015 Award CiroConsentino  04/10/15 03:28 AM

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