> I'm curious about the state and direction of Commodore 64 support in MAME.
>
> I was looking over the files and noticed that there's only around 900 files for the
> C64, while Gamebase64 has over 25,000 and other sites have much more than MAME as
> well.
>
> While it's easy enough to add more files for the C64, I was curious if there was a
> discussion on criteria for inclusion in MAME? I know a lot of the files out there are
> cracks for example, I'm curious if that disqualifies them from official consideration
> and only original images are desired?
>
> I'm also curious on the file formats, does MAME prefer the disk container formats or
> the formats that unify multiple disks to a single container to minimize disk
> swapping?
>
> Thanks for any information on this subject!
Time, effort and a whole lot of testing. C64 machines in MAME are not at a state where going all in on a large and complete software list isn't fully practical. As of now, I presume they consist of only images which got hands-on testing or were freshly dumped/confirmed and serve as good test cases for the emulation.
While we try to push software list use if for nothing else than consistency - people sometime forget they can use virtually any image available for the machine via the UI (File Manager) mounting or using command-line interaction.
c64 cassette (cass) .wav .tap
floppydisk (flop) .d64 .g64 .g41 .g71 .d77 .d88 .1dd .dfi .hfe .imd .ipf .mfi .mfm .td0 .cqm .cqi .dsk
cartridge (cart) .80 .a0 .e0 .crt
quickload (quik) .p00 .prg .t64
A number of types of media/data are supported. I'm unsure if any of those are the "all in one merged disk" format you mention above.
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