> > Hey sorry I meant to reply to this earlier and forgot to. House calls are actually > > extremely rare in dumping and I haven't gotten any interest here for one. With a PC > > based game we would need basically 3 things: hard drive dump, bios dump(s) and > > hardware information. So you could either pull the whole computer and ship and loan > > that out or follow instructions on doing it yourself. As for house calls in dumping > > I'd say less than .1% of the dumps in mame are from them. With a computer from > recent > > years it's feasible to say the motherboard bios could be gotten from an external > > source/download/program and all you would need to do is buy a cheap adapter to read > > out the hard drive to another PC and otherwise would probably only need to take a > > bunch of pics of the inside of the computer and maybe an alt boot so we'd know the > > CPU, RAM, motherboard, videocard and whatnot. Again, house calls are extremely rare > > so some basic work from yourself or else pulling the computer and shipping it out. > > So, a bit off-topic, but since you mentioned house calls for dumps... > > Back in 1998 (I think; I'll have to research this), I came across, quite by accident, > a Space Invaders II cocktail machine at a lasertag/arcade facility about 50 miles > from my home, and posted the find to the MAME dev list that was in operation back > then. Frank Palazzolo and I met up the next night and drove down to the place, since > it was a pretty rare machine and not emulated in MAME at the time. Frank put up the > majority of the cash since I didn't have all of funds at the time, but we got it at a > decent price ($300, if I recall). We brought the machine back to my house, and Frank > took the boards home with him for dumping and the majority of the emulation work. I > helped with the overlay colors and layout, and recorded the samples, since the game > itself has two sound boards and some of the Invaders samples were missing from MAME > back then (extra life and mystery saucer, IIRC). I bought the boards back from Frank > and sold the machine a few years later. The listing on VAPS and the pictures there > are of the same machine that the MAME dumps came from. > > So, not quite the same situation, but a story that I wanted to share since your post > reminded me of it.
Cool story. Fun to hear the history of these preservation projects.
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