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Naming conventions
« on: December 18, 2003, 09:52:15 am »
What's the deal with naming conventions and why is it so important?  Plua,  why do you need special tools to rename roms?
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Re:Naming conventions
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2003, 10:39:36 am »
Are you talking about TOSEC et. al?

Number of reasons for the naming convertion... Avoiding redundant ROM / disk images on the net, cataloging the software, etc...

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Re:Naming conventions
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2003, 01:45:58 pm »
I have no idea what Tosec is.  Could you please enlighten me?
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Re:Naming conventions
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2003, 05:36:58 am »
I like it that all the mame roms have specific filenames. I just wish the console roms were the same way. Yes, I know they have tools for that now, but all those tools did was proliferate the stupid 17 alternate bad dumps of each cartridge even more. I remember browsing one website a long time ago that actually had each alternate (bad) version of each rom.

It would be MUCH better on the console end, if the tools just identified one dump as correct, and labeled all others simply as corrupted, maybe that would finally get rid of all the clones.
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