> This is one reason I'll always tell people to use the latest MAME, not old versions
> of MAME. The excuse of 'my roms work with old versions' is a bad one, they don't work
> with newer ones, typically because they were wrong and have been replaced.
> Recommending people keep using old sets, and keep them looking current when they're
> not is just bad for preservation in general because people new coming to emulation,
> especially from commercial backgrounds etc. end up seeing the (stupid) raving 'THESE
> OLD VERSION ARE THE BEST!!!!' fanboys, without really understanding that it's a
> complete fallacy mostly propagated because people are too lazy to do want to do
> things properly, or don't want to invest in proper hardware.
>
> The problem with console emulation is *far* worse however because most of the
> dedicated emulators have no way of rejecting known bad dumps so people blissfully
> keep using them and spreading them. This to some people makes the console emulators
> better, because they never need to update their ROMs, but in reality, it just keeps a
> long-term problem going and causes things like what you're observing here to happen.
The only use case I have found for this sort of thing is something like replays with inp files. Other than that there is pretty much 0 reason to keep the older broken things. I recently cleaned out about 15 gig of MAME executables and source that for some reason I had accumulated.
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