MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Colecovision ROMs

>I used to hack CV quite a bit, I wrote a bios that would could read FAT and hooked up an
>IDE adapter to the expansion slot once upon a time.

I am not familiar with the system myself. I would like to believe with changes in MAME over past couple years, modifying bios roms wouldn't be necessary with Colecovision emulation in MAME, but this isn't my area.

>I still have my Death Race in the garage, it's still as dead as it was when I bought it
>20 years ago, although I think I have collected all the parts I need now. Just need some
>motivation.

I thought yours was in working shape. Good luck getting it restored to working shape.
I am certain that the documented Death Race rom set in MAME will need to have a look over to really be certain that the roms/proms are valid.

>I still have Formula K and Breakout in the garage also. I didn't realize it when I bought
>them that the serial numbers on both are low, very low. Not sure how they ended up in a
>basement in Overland Park, KS.

I recall in a blog entry from a few years earlier, someone was in process of restoring a For-Play Rally pong cab in Europe and was guessing how a For-Play Rally cab would get its way to Europe.

That mystery was likely solved when Dan Hower (used to own TAFA web site, now runs Flyer Fever) purchased a European region marketing flyer (Germany iirc) for For-Play brand cabs a couple years ago. Buyers in European market could buy Rally or Sport Center in Europe back in 1970s.

As you probably know Breakout (upright version only) is emulated in MAME while only proms of Formula K are only documented in MAME for now.