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nitz:
Thanks to everyone who has contributed, and Haze especially, your contribution to this thread is invaluable. :notworthy:

I've updated the list again.

Haze:

--- Quote from: MaxVolume on July 20, 2012, 05:53:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: Haze on July 18, 2012, 08:18:03 pm ---There isn't really any collection of such information no, usually the people who have worked on specific drivers will know a few things, but even then a fair number probably won't care at all, most of them really don't have interesting stories behind them ;-)

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Um, and the more "interesting" the story, the less likely anyone wants to talk about it, right? ;)


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Most of the stories aren't that interesting, we're not breaking into random buildings and tradeshows after hours to dump things without people noticing or anything like that, although it probably is the only way you'll ever see Marble Madness 2 in MAME ;-)

Stuff like the Moon War prototype story are somewhat interesting if only for the fact that the sound board + roms turned up first, and we could pair them with Moon War by virtue of the samples that were in there, but at the same time knew it was a Berzerk / Frenzy sound board, and Moon War definitely didn't use one, and the whole thing was in pretty rough condition.  Just happened that the rest of it, sans sound board(!) turned up in Austria of all places many years later by complete chance.

But most of the work is mundane, some of the rarest boards have actually just turned up in piles of junk, or warehouse clearouts, or been sitting under the owners noses without them even having a clue of what they've actually got until they dump it (as is the case for many clone sets..)

We're actually still missing some significant clones, such as the newest revisions of the first 2 Street Fighter 3 games, you would have expected CDs for those to turn up readily, but they don't.  I'm sure plenty of members here have revisions of games that are undumped, and they simple haven't checked.


jennifer:
Random tradshows, after hours?..... Jennifer looks for her black ski mask.

Haze:
Well it is how a lot of early bootlegs came about, quick to dump, lax on security.

That's one reason all the defender bootlegs are based on the 'white label' prototype code

jennifer:
I have mountains of boards, and like the Haze says, no clue as to what they are. I have been looking into rom dumping....But its not really a
glorified subject, so until Jen can figger it out......

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