MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Need info on how to submit software to mamedev

> it's not "their loss" it "everybody's loss" and a blow to preservation.
>
> policies such as "don't include applications" are really quite damaging, and you
> should have just submitted your images somewhere else, such as MAME for example.
>
> at least with MAME it's possible to say policies are correct on such things, and the
> project is happy to document games alongside utilities (and likewise machines that
> were only for play, alongside machines that had no games at all) Nothing is going to
> get lost / left behind as a result of a MAME policy on issues like this as long as
> people remember to submit them.
>
> preserving old media etc. is a high priority task as much of it is starting to fail,
> not one that should come down to "was it fun to play"
Most of the original single-track dumps are still here, the only single-track disc I had trouble dumping was AFL 99 which would always fail on the very last sector (protection?) on every single drives I tried. Unfortunately the AFL 99 disc is long gone, that one was sold 3 years ago (the dump still exists, although I can't trust the last sector even though the dump was a 100% match over different drives).

And yes, a lot of my Windows 3.1/95 era CDs are slowly starting to rot, especially the plain silver ones.

Recently I picked up Looney Tunes Racing on PSX so I could verify the CD matrix/ring codes and other documentation, which is often completely missing and is a major problem with the redump sets; often they simply take the disc image, the SLES-xxxxx serial number, binary hashes and the pointless stamped IFPI number (which changes with every single disc batch and sometimes isn't even stamped at all) and go to the next CD, which is like submitting a new dump for MAME where everything inside the zip is named filename.rom (warpwarp.cpp is a good example, unless of course the actual chips were completely blank with no labels or board markings whatsoever; the erroneous letter Ls inside the Navarone set have been in there since the year 2000!)