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.

In case folks don't understand why this is an issue, laserdiscs tend to rot. The materials go bad if not stored properly - and even if they are, they'll still waste away.