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Haze
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Re: Access to game sources
12/19/16 08:43 PM


> Hello.
>
> First let me applogise if this is in the wrong section...
> If it is, tell me how or kick it to the right place, thanks.
>
> The Question:
> Is it possible the get access to the game sources for corrections?
>
> Let's say i was a BIG player on some game and found an error on the Mame emmulated
> game. Is it possible to have access to the roms sources and correct TRY to correct
> the error?
>
> The error in not due to the emulator. It its a conception error that goes unnoticed
> on the game hardware but shows in the emulation (cant tell you why yet)...
>
> Thank you.

the original game sources? no, that's very, very, very unlikely, most of the time we're lucky to even have dumps of the roms, most of the sources probably don't even exist anywhere these days.

that doesn't mean you can't fix bugs in the original games, you can always disassemble the code in the roms, study it, use the MAME debugger to help you trace bits of it, work out what they do etc. but that's the best you can do for 99.9% of cases.







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* Access to game sources AFelix 12/19/16 08:27 PM
. * Re: Access to game sources Haze  12/19/16 08:43 PM
. * Re: Access to game sources AFelix  12/19/16 08:54 PM
. * Re: Access to game sources Haze  12/19/16 09:57 PM
. * Re: Access to game sources AFelix  12/19/16 10:05 PM
. * Re: Access to game sources gregf  12/20/16 12:19 PM
. * Re: Access to game sources Haze  12/20/16 12:32 AM

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