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MAME .107 released!
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u_rebelscum:

--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on July 24, 2006, 10:53:50 am ---I don't get the whole "ROMs changing" thing. Certainly the real ROMs never change, the ones that are stored in chips on original boards, why would a dump of that ROM ever change? If you were using MAME ROMs to repair a real board, i.e. burn a new ROM to replace a faulty one, what version of MAME ROMs would you use?

So-called "bad dumps" notwithstanding, I always assumed MAME ROMs were 1:1 dumps of the actual ROMs from real boards. Can anyone explain what changes in a MAME ROM, and why?

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Case 1: bad dump
Case 2: incomplete dump (X chip now emulated now needs Y ROM not needed before)
Case 3: new dump confirmed source, old dump unreliable/unknown source
Case 4: new dump real release, old dump hacked board
Case 5: new dump real release, old dump prototype
Case 6: new dump wider release, old dump local release

The first three add/replace to a ROM, the last three usually involve renaming.
lettuce:
So does this mean progs that changed all the roms to there correct resolutions wont be any good now??
ahofle:

--- Quote from: lettuce on July 24, 2006, 12:30:50 pm ---So does this mean progs that changed all the roms to there correct resolutions wont be any good now??

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Not sure I understand your question, but if you are asking if you'll need to revisit your frontend/MAME configuration with v0.107 then the answer is probably 'yes'.
jcrouse:

--- Quote from: lettuce on July 24, 2006, 12:30:50 pm ---So does this mean progs that changed all the roms to there correct resolutions wont be any good now??

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He is asking about apps like the AVGA Res tool and such that automatically create cfg files containing the proper video setting for all your mame game.

John
Minwah:

--- Quote from: jcrouse on July 24, 2006, 01:39:51 pm ---He is asking about apps like the AVGA Res tool and such that automatically create cfg files containing the proper video setting for all your mame game.

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Well I am not 100% sure yet, but my prog should work to some extent with Krick's new 'xml2info', by creating a dat file.  However I think I read about some change with the way vertical resolutions are now represented in Mame...I am not totally sure of the details but this may mess up the vertical games side of things.

I really need to sort out xml parsing in Mamewah, so when I have done that I will add it to the Res. Tool...
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