MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: DU: Ketchup

>And there's also the official English translation of Wonder Boy in Monster Land, which was
>found not so long ago by somebody at SEGA and then released on the Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3
>(even though MAME marks it as "English, Virtual Console").

>Now that I think of it, maybe it should be the parent version, being an official overseas
>release and all?

It is one thing when the item is supported/added to the list, but no way should it be considered the parent rom set unless there is actual pcb hardware proof that it does/did exist. If other emulators choose to do it that way, okay, but MAME should still stick with the long ago standards it started out with as far as documenting hardware.

It is unfortunate that the Sega employee probably didn't explain what pcb parts numbers 'the official English translation of Wonder Boy in Monster Land' came from etc. I don't know if they provided those details, but if they did, then I can agree with the update....but as it is I can not see that being the parent rom set.

Maybe a pcb will be found later although it will take luck on such a find, but there have been unexpected finds over the years.

If anything, weeks ago I was convinced with the recent Fantasy Zone (317-0016) of being the new parent rom set, I "....took it to the DAMN BANK!.." and still lost.

--
from January...

I am confident that I am taking this Fantasy Zone as being the new parent set I will take it to "the DAMN Bank."

Lewis Black: "....you can take that to the DAMN BANK!..."

https://youtu.be/ZD1q_vx4VIc?t=142
--

Sometimes there are rare exceptions where things have to be done from scratch which was the case for some 1970s era Atari games in which actual source code was used from actual paper printouts. The Atari source code that was on paper printouts was compiled to create artificial roms in order to create some of the Atari games. This is what Mariusz Wojcieszek did several years earlier with cocktail table version of Atari Dominos and another Atari game iirc. Had there already been an existing rom set, dumped from actual pcb of an actual 4 player cocktail table Atari Dominos before Mariusz made a rom set from scratch using actual Atari source code, then Mariusz work would likely be treated as a clone set.

--
https://www.mamedev.org/?p=439

Happy birthday, MAME!
05 Feb 2017

Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the very first MAME release.

Mariusz Wojcieszek

--

*off to do some 'Serenity now' mind relaxation*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PojMFDMtnus&feature=youtu.be&t=210

Edited by gregf (02/18/19 01:22 PM)