Many of these games have trademarked characters that live on in modern incarnations some of them are still being sold by their owners, wrapped in proprietary emulators and many of these ROMs are 'bootlegs' and circumvent encryption and copy protection in direct violation. Possible legal problems that might occur if too recent, even commercialized, games are emulated. While I appreciate the noble intent of the uploader, 'historical value' (fair use) is probably not going to cut it here. The encryption used internally by many recreational, as a means to avoid piracy. The difficulty of accessing the plates (hardware) of the original arcades, to study them and to extract the ROMs (copy of the software of the machine, which contains the game itself). The development of the MAME project has been hampered in these years by different factors: The goal of the development of MAME is to contribute to the conservation of games that, otherwise, disappear forever by disappearing the machines that contained them, contributing to preserve the history of video games. It based its structure on a modular architecture, in which each component of the hardware was emulated by a specific driver, in such a way that for the emulation of a machine, it is enough to give the information of what components it has, and how they relate. To facilitate the emulation of the recreational machines, Nicola Salmona created MAME by merging several emulators he had been working on. I'm honestly surprised that allowed this to be posted and I'm surprised the mamedev guys haven't freaked out over it, because this could potentially attract a lot of negative attention (and mamedev is very, very prone to sudden outbursts of illogical drama).Prior to the creation of this emulator, the enormous diversity of the hardware of the arcade machines made the emulation of their games a very complex and untidy task. I have never ever seen that stuff hosted anywhere other then torrent websites. I mean, shit, this is basically a ROM hoarders wet dream. I'm not even sure how legal those ROM dumps are even if you own the original arcade boards- almost all arcade PCBs have hardware protection on them (think of DRM, but a billion times worse), and in order to dump the ROM contents properly and/or run them you'd have to crack that protection first. There's PSX dumps, there's Saturn dumps, and there's a whole bunch of arcade games that I know for a fact cannot be legally distributed (Raiden, Raiden Fighters, a couple of CAVE games, etc). Look at the stuff in the 'MESS and MAME' collection. Hell even I would hesitate at a 43gb ROMset without having a list of what is inside, I'd hate to waste that much band.
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