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bkenobi:

Maybe I'm missing something, but MAME does emulate the boards.  You would have to build your own rom that would be compatible with the original rom you are replacing, but you should be set with MAME I believe.  If you want to program your own game using Pacman hardware as an example, you would use all the same stuff in MAME except for whatever rom chips contain the actual game code.  Those roms would have to be written and compiled by you using whatever the appropriate tool would be.  Once you get the rom working in MAME, you would burn it back to a real rom chip and drop it (or them) into an original Pacman board.

I thought that was the primary purpose of MAME...keeping the original hardware/software saved for future generations.   ???

paigeoliver:

If you hack an existing rom (which will likely maintain most of the original code), then it will almost certainly work in mame, but something written from scratch might work in mame and then fail on the real board or vise versa.

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