> Fine then. If I'm free to download any and as many ROMs as I please, then I will.
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> Thanks!
To be perfectly honest, it's better for the project if you download the full set rather than picking and choosing. By having many redundant backups of the full set, it makes it exponentially less likely that any particular ROM set will ever be permanently lost.
And in case you think I'm being facetious, ask some of the long-time people about "raflsiau", an unencrypted version of Rafflesia that ended up being lost when the one person who had it suffered a hard drive crash.
From a realistic standpoint, MAME is both a give-and-take when it comes to arcade companies. Arcade companies are typically awful at archiving the source code and binaries to older games - in many cases, when these companies have gone back to do a retro re-release now that there's a market for such a thing, MAME has been the only thing preserving old copies of these companies' games. There's even been a couple instances of arcade companies actively using the MAME source - technically in contravention to the MAME license - in retro re-release packs, so there really isn't a moral leg to stand on at the end of the day. Just download the whole set and enjoy yourself.
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