MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Newcomer here, here's my plans with my DU Donations.

> To be clear though, Sean Riddle is on the DU and he seems to be the only person on
> the planet who dumps handheld game epoxy blobs for mame. He might be only 1 person
> but he's 100% of the dumping of all the blobs I think for most handhelds/game and
> watch. Klaus and ClawGrip have done some with LeapPad etc. Also on the DU.
>
> The biggest issue with DU buying specific things is finding them. It's not a big deal
> to buy some handheld with someone's money, it's that they need to find the item for
> sale themselves. Arcade heads on the DU aren't going to spend hours and hours their
> time finding games they aren't interested in, because that isn't fun and this is a
> hobby, not work.
>
> People can also just buy the undumped games themselves and send them in, maybe even
> straight to Sean.

Most of the recent Game & Watch work hasn't actually been done by Sean

The user with the 'hal3000' account on bannister has been taking care of those
https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=97003&page=308

Sean is going to have a busy period where there aren't many dumps starting with almost immediate effect anyway. We've got a decent stockpile of TV games to analyze / get through at the moment (I've been searching every day for specific ones, variants etc.) I'll likely do another post when we want to start sourcing some more of those :-)

Outside Tiger and Game & Watch a lot of the handhelds we have no way to process at the moment, they're MCU types where bits aren't visible, and no electronic dump process is known. Some of the earlier TV games also seem to be single blob MCUs with internal ROM that we can't dump.