MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: DU: Victory

> > > > > but I honestly wouldn't get your hopes up too high, my gut feeling is that
> > > > something
> > > > > is missing, and at best we'll get a partially working game.
> > > >
> > > > Sadly I know that's a very, very real possibility, I also get major bad vibes
> > come
> > > > from that empty socket.
> > > >
> > > > Who knows, maybe someday that missing EPROM will turn up in another board? We
> can
> > > > only do what we can and hope.
> > > >
> > > > There's another game I dumped too that I think is an undumped version of Super
> > > Tank,
> > > > but that ended up have a bad EPROM, which it's why it's important to dump as
> many
> > > of
> > > > these games while we still can.
> > > >
> > > > On the bright side Eeekk! is now safe, I'm looking forward to trying it! I've
> got
> > a
> > > > Street Heat daughter board and I wonder if I'll be able to convert it?
> > >
> > > yeah, it happens, it's always worth submitting the dumps even if one is bad or
> > parts
> > > are missing, I'd just be careful paying over the odds for broken things, $500 for
> a
> > > game a seller couldn't even get running properly was just absurd.
> > >
> > > probably the most famous example of 2 partial dumps making a complete one is with
> > the
> > > Moon War prototype in MAME, where the sound board was first dumped (and seemed
> > quite
> > > mysterious, it contained speech that seemed to be for Moon War, but no version of
> > > Moon War used that hardware) the actual game board turned up a few years later,
> > > without the sound board, and was dumped, giving us a complete set. Maybe not a
> case
> > > of bad roms, but a case of why dumping what you have is important.
> >
> > Which is also why it's even more critical to decide on what to do about the
> Laserdisc
> > games still not in Mame.
>
> I'm not sure what any of this has to do with Laserdiscs, or how the conversation is
> even remotely relevant to that subject.

The point I was making is that the longer those don't get dumped and supported by Mame, the greater the chance they are lost forever. It was like what you said about why dumping what you have is important.

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