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MooglyGuy
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Re: Are rom files the same size as the originals?
01/10/15 08:44 AM


> You know, on the boards? (I'm not really interested in hard drive-based games, more
> particularly golden age.)

No, the original ROMs tend to have additional readable data fields that aren't included in the dumped files. Fortunately, MAME is smart enough to infer this additional data from the data contained in the ROM dumps. This is why MAME is typically only any good for playing games, and the people who would ever want to use it to burn ROMs in order to fix existing boards are just out of luck.







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* Are rom files the same size as the originals? Traso 01/10/15 05:55 AM
. * Re: Are rom files the same size as the originals? MooglyGuy  01/10/15 08:44 AM
. * Re: Are rom files the same size as the originals? StilettoAdministrator  01/10/15 08:52 AM
. * Re: Are rom files the same size as the originals? Ville Linde  01/12/15 04:26 PM
. * Re: Are rom files the same size as the originals? R. Belmont  01/10/15 02:41 PM
. * Re: Are rom files the same size as the originals? *DELETED* Anonymous  01/10/15 07:23 PM
. * Re: Are rom files the same size as the originals? Roman  01/10/15 08:51 PM
. * Re: Are rom files the same size as the originals? casm  01/11/15 12:56 AM
. * Re: Are rom files the same size as the originals? SmitdoggAdministrator  01/10/15 09:33 PM
. * Re: Are rom files the same size as the originals? grog  01/10/15 11:07 PM
. * Re: Are rom files the same size as the originals? GatKong  01/11/15 10:00 AM
. * Re: Are rom files the same size as the originals? *DELETED* Anonymous  01/11/15 07:54 PM
. * Re: Are rom files the same size as the originals? Trebor  01/12/15 01:27 PM

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