> God knows that byuu would probably dump it in some obscure format of his own creation that loses like half of the data on the disc despite him claiming that it's "the right way to do it".
Exactly, you really wouldn't want me to dump the ROMs on this system.
You'd end up with all the files in a folder with a cryptic name like "Super Mario World (JP) (1.0).sfc", with gibberish for filenames like "program.rom" and "save.ram" ... how the hell is anyone supposed to figure out what any of that crap means?
We need to get this in the hands of a capable MAME dumper, so we can end up with a proper format like nss-smw.zip, with consistent file names inside like nss-mw-0_prg.ic1 and nss-r__ic3__mw.ic3 (*). You don't have to stop and think about what these mean, they're obvious from the naming. Of course, it'd probably be even better if it was stored in a format *not* of one's own creation, like CHD, right?
Plus like you said, I'm terrible about not preserving *all* the data. Which is probably why it was the MAME team that led the effort and raised the money to extract all the SNES coprocessor firmware, and is currently pushing to get the S-DSP gaussian table extracted so it can be externalized. If it were me, I'd probably just complain about it if you dared ask for help on my forum.
OH WAIT ...
(* as should be obvious, these perfectly match the chip names on my actual board: http://i.imgur.com/X52KS0s.jpg ... save for proper MAME naming convention changes: ic1 added _prg, swapped the placement of mw, and didn't duplicate the ic1 in the base name. I wish I could come up with such a logical design.)
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