AES is technically a home console using arcade cartridges, which MAME already covers. Also unlike many other cartridge formats (.nes, .sfc, .bin, etc.) AES cartridges are collections of ROM dumps not enclosed into single files. No-intro seems to focus on single file cartridge formats, some weird optical media like UMD ISOs and single downloadable package contents (e-Shop, PSN, etc.). AES dumps aren't any of them.
No-intro indeed classifies some ISOs like PSP UMDs as mentioned earlier, however that fits more redump.org's goal.
Be aware also that MAME's principal purpose is to document the hardware as closer as possible. If you are looking for game enhancements and undocumented workaround hacks you are better off using single emulators for that purpose.
And about CHD, you should be aware it's an internal format used by MAME so you can use media without decompressing it. It's an storage format like .ZIP and .RAR, not a dump standard. If you look at the XML hash files you will realize MAME softlists are redump.org, no-intro, TOSEC and even randomly unclassified collections from the internet stored as CHD1.
1 Though in my opinion the format would be widely more used if it could extract exactly the same files and checksums they're put into. If you already know how to interpret the different formats, it shouldn't be that big of a deal to find a way to revert them back, then keep the weird cue files and ignored data stored into the CHD for that purpose. Maybe in a new CHD revision.
Edited by BIOS-D (03/31/18 06:20 AM)
|
Previous 
Index 
Next 
Flat 
Re: Random Emulation Questions (Mostly MAME)
Reply
