> > > 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.
>
> Also why nearly every ROM dump out there has a file size that is a multiple of 2:
> 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, etc. And not, you know, the originally random size those
> original ROMs were.
Yup. The hardest part of dumping popn3 last night was deciding what data to capriciously leave out.
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