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| IntruderAlert:
by the way.. as far as flaming goes, there's not much of that around here you'd be hard pressed to find a more friendly board anywhere on the planet ;) BYOACMF RULES!!!! 8) |
| JB:
--- Quote from: etumor on June 14, 2005, 05:18:26 pm ---You mis-understood my tone (easy to do on the Internet). I'm not getting worked up, merely answering your question while doing my best to follow "the rules." For the record, bios files fall into exactly the same category as rom files. Think of them as a chunk of software that is used by many games, but is every bit as much a part of the game program as the rom files. If I was getting worked up, I wouldn't have given you the answer to your question (cryptic though it might have been). I am genuinely trying to help and keep you from getting flamed in the future. -Jeff "etumor" --- End quote --- In fact, teh proper term would be "BIOS ROM images," which I think makes things a little clearer. They ARE ROM images, they just contain system-specific code instead of game-specific code. And the legal status isn't based on whether they came from a game, or are useful bythemselves, or anything else. It's based on whether they're copyrighted or not. Everything is copyrighted by default when it's created. To over-simplify things, unless the creator of a piece of software specifically releases it for such distribution(mame.net has a few such ROM images there), it is illegal to download it, regardless of whether it does anything or not.. |
| romeo11523:
I will answer question number 5. Go to www.neo-geo.com for a master list,screenshots, and a very welcoming community of people. Romeo |
| rcdriver434:
Thanks to all who replied here - you really cleared things up. Sorry for misinterpeting your message, eTutor. I have found that this is accualy one of the nicer, more helpful forums on the net, as everybody seems willing to help eachother get thier project done. Apparently the bioses do come w/ mame .97, because metal slug and KOF work fine. Thanks for the help! |
| paigeoliver:
The one thing Mame DOESN'T do is emulate a multi-slot board. For example, I have a six slot board. It has six cartridges in it. I can go into the service mode and see all six that are installed, I can change settings on them individually, and after putting in a credit I can press a select button to cycle through the games. While no one is playing the machine will cycle through the attract modes of all six games in order from one to the next. Mame does not do that. The bios files don't come with Mame, but they are considered separate roms on their own, and tend to be right there on every rom site, every rom newsgroup, and every rom CD right along with all the rest of them. So you probably downloaded them without even realizing it. |
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