Yet Another Dump list.

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Isn't 3 competing sources enough already?

We wouldn't be competing, ideally we would only add known good dumps documenting the software released for a system. Anything not in the list can of course still be loaded through the already existing routines.

It's a long hard road (mainly because it's been left so late) but it would be kinda nice to have all the official Sega part numbers documented etc. rather than just Sonic 2 [UE] [!] or whatever. Having a proper database would provide a mechanism for that. (of course, non-licensed games often don't have proper labels, but it's the same in MAME)

Well, prior to MAME the arcade scene was just as fragmented, slowly but surely everybody start supporting MAME sets, and now nobody looks back.

Due to the fact it's also an emulator MESS could easily become de-facto reference just as MAME is now.

If you know your history you'll see what an enormous help MAME doing things 'the right way(tm)' has been to the arcade emulation scene. It's a long hard road (mainly because it's been left so late) but it would be kinda nice to have all the official Sega part numbers documented etc. rather than just Sonic 2 [UE] [!] or whatever. Having a proper database would provide a mechanism for that. (of course, non-licensed games often don't have proper labels, but it's the same in MAME)

Really, it's about time the console scene matured, and stopped supporting things the way they do because it's 'easier' With that attitude MAME would still be using MGD2 and NeorageX dumps.

I know it's not a popular opinion, but I've never tried to be popular, just ensured things get done correctly.

I've started this some time ago, I still have ~300 scans to add.
The wiki is script generated so I can do the same for the software list.

Many of the proprietory rom managers seem to somehow think they own filenames ;-)

I've started this some time ago, I still have ~300 scans to add.
The wiki is script generated so I can do the same for the software list.

what's that byteswapped column about? if you dump the ROM using an EPROM reader then that's it, no byte swapping is required. The emulator should load it as-is. If you've 'fixed' them to work with some other emulator then you should unfix it. That's one of the reasons the console skene is in such a mess.

that list is farking huge. how many have you redumped? just those listed or is there more to come? that's going to be a very expensive exercise if you don't own them all

the list in MESS can only work with known CRCs etc otherwise there's nothing to 'check'. it will be possible to load anything but the file names will be generic instead of MPR-xxxxx etc.
btw, the file names should be MPR-xxxxx.IC1

Reminds me a lot of bootgod's NES pages, good going