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Title: Has anyone used this service??
Post by: darkmanx on March 31, 2002, 09:05:00 pm

Its a group of ROM burners that burn em for free if you send them the discs and return postage. Seems like a great idea, I am just wondering if anyone has had any experience with them.

http://www.tombstones.org.uk/

Title: Re: Has anyone used this service??
Post by: SirPoonga on March 31, 2002, 09:30:04 pm

Yeah, they've been mentioned several times.  Can get the stuff ona  dvd too:)

They are SWAMPED right now so don;t expect fast service for while.

Title: Re: Has anyone used this service??
Post by: Lilwolf on April 01, 2002, 09:32:08 am

Also, consider donating something.  A great idea and hope they stick around.  I dont' think they accept money (because that would be wrong) but maybe send them a set of 25 CDs for a set of 5.

I never used them myself (got into emulation back when you could download all the roms in an hour or so) and kept up since then.

Title: Re: Has anyone used this service??
Post by: Trenchbroom on April 01, 2002, 01:15:44 pm

Used the service about 3 weeks ago.  I live in the U.S. and burner Chris from NE had the MAME .58 discs in the mail about 3 days after I posted the payment on Paypal. Discs included all roms (except Legendary Wings for some reason . . .) along w/ artwork, screen shots, etc.
They did send me an email stating that since mame.dk went down there volume is way up and to be patient. Keep it in mind.

Discs are great and I couldn't be happier.  Now if I could only find a reliable outlet for the .59 ROMS! ;)

Title: Re: Has anyone used this service??
Post by: darkmanx on April 01, 2002, 06:18:23 pm

i just put in a payment for the .59 roms, and asked what kind of donations the guy i ordered from accepts  :)
trench they can burn the update for you  ;D

Title: Re: Has anyone used this service??
Post by: Trenchbroom on April 01, 2002, 09:19:45 pm

Yeah, I kinda figured they would.  But I've taken up enough of their time--hate to be a lamer every 4 weeks when a new MAME release hits the web.  Let those more needy gamers get the ROMS they need (heh).

Title: Re: Has anyone used this service??
Post by: jeepers on April 02, 2002, 01:48:26 am

Yeah I was able to get the 'new' roms (only 44) but the 'changed' rom list for .59 is massive. And I'm afraid to waste my time downloading them from a master list somewhere in fear that I'd be getting the older versions. Anyone know a reliable place to download these latest 'changed' roms (to make sure they are indeed the .59 versions?).

Title: Re: Has anyone used this service??
Post by: Lilwolf on April 02, 2002, 08:53:24 am

I haven't really looked yet, but most of the changed roms are in the neogeo roms.  

Aren't they just renames?  I think you can run clrmame on them and it will fix all your neogeo games for you in one shot... no downloading

Title: Re: Has anyone used this service??
Post by: darkmanx on April 02, 2002, 04:51:15 pm

thats what i heard. they changed them to the actual name on the games pcb or somethin

Title: Re: Has anyone used this service??
Post by: Frobozz on April 03, 2002, 08:14:12 am

Yea, Clrmame will fix those up real quick.  

Man, and to think I got all mine through a 56K modem over a period of 3 months.  

Title: Re: Has anyone used this service??
Post by: chaos on April 03, 2002, 12:22:53 pm

So aside from those simple changes, does anyone have a list of the games that need to be downloaded (that were ligitimately changed)? Thanks!

Title: Re: Has anyone used this service??
Post by: Defender on April 03, 2002, 11:50:40 pm

I'd like to have that list myself. If anyone knows which changed roms NEED to be downloaded, please post the list. Thanks!

Title: Re: Has anyone used this service??
Post by: Defender on April 04, 2002, 08:34:31 pm

No one knows?