Hi everyone - long time no post. Hope you are all ok, and Harrision hope you are on the way to recovering from the aweful flooding.
I've had the EMU bug recently and my attentioned turned to updating my ancient MAME 0.138 collection. Of course the recent set is getting quite large.
So I posted over at pleasuredome and thought I'd just dump the text here. Just had an idea, perhaps suggested before, actually very likely, but do you think we need a working games only torrent for MAME? In other words a torrent which only includes working ROMS and CHD files?
Now that the collection is getting huge, I'm sure it must be possible to compile a list of working only games and delete those that are marked as not working. This should result in a very compact and useful torrent especially for those who need a smaller collection to run on retro dedicated emulation machines.
Another idea is a torrent of CHD games which are 2D only or not entirely 3D based - as many 3D CHD games don't run well on weaker systems.
I tried to put a list together myself of the best 2D semi-3D CHD titles that are working from info on the internet:
Border Down
Capcom vs SNK series(not sure if this is working)
Chaos Field
Chaos Heat
Guilty Gear XX series
Ikaruga
JoJo
Karous
KInstinct series
Melty Blood Act Cadenza Ver B
Night Raid
Primal Rage 2
Psyvariar - Medium Unit series
Ray Crisis
Red Earth - Warzard
SFIII series
Shikigami no Shiro
Super Puzzle Bobble
Trigger Heart Exelica (Rev A)
Trizeal
Under Defeat
XII Stag
Anyone suggest any more?
I can understand this may affect seeding numbers of the main torrents however, but should be ok if not offered as a free torrent.
What do you guys think, we could put something together.
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Well I got told in no uncertain terms that this question has been asked before at Pleasuredome and it will not be permitted to create a torrent with a cut down selection of working only and/or CHD titles that run at reasonable speeds - full only MAME torrents.
I still think they should allow a working only MAME torrent and a thinned out CHD torrent, however it's an awesome resource so who am I to argue? Plus there are other places to share such a project.