> HOORAY. > > Raflesiau…… you have returned and shall take your rightful place > amongst the roms. > > > Ha….for the new batch generation of MAME users, this was an issue > from nearly 20 years ago in which the first actual rom set file had been > lost due to a hard disk crash from one of the TeamJapump contributors. > > The actual pcb had supposedly already been sold and that meant another pcb > would have to be found and roms dumped once again. In the meantime, phony created > raflesiau rom sets were generated by ‘the Kidz’ in order to complete their > collection. > > It was a hassle since the fake rom would surface at places and be claimed as the > real item. > I would like to believe this old issue will finally be resolved. > > It does bring back memories from Gridle’s. old MAME.net. website in which the topic > was > somewhat controversial back then.
If I recall correctly raflsiau.zip was the main culprit MAME added SHA1 hashes to romsets. It's been so long I can't be sure about that however.