> No I think that's a valid point. I think it is appropriate for MAME to automatically > load any additional required software and devices to run something off the software > list, but really it could go either way. > > But were you able to get it working?
I don't know if it does this right now, but probably the right thing to do is load the cart for you if you run a CD from the softlist and expect you to load the cart yourself if you are running some loose file.
That way you can run (or try to if the system doesn't support it) CDs with no cart or a different cart inserted. If you want to... I'm not saying that PCE is a system where you'd want to do that. But there are many systems in MAME.