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While testing out various games in MAME, I noticed that some sets are actually just a compliation of different games; some of which appear to be little more than an NES bootleg slapped on an arcade board. Some of these sets include Multi Game (set 1 and 2) (multigam, multigmb), Chameleon 24 (cham24) and the 39 in 1 MAME bootleg (39in1, but not working). There may be others as well.

These sets have over 30+ games to choose from. My question is: Are all these going to be split individually (O_O), or will they be asterisked out? Or will we only be able to choose from just a few? I'm sorry if there's already a precedent set for this type of thing, but these sets seemed to be fairly new.

we would actually split it if the rom contained multiple games, no matter how many there were, of course there were exceptions if there are just an exponential # of games are the same game somewhere else, such as golden tee. Which particular romset were you looking at? The 39in1 probably should be split, but If it's emulating nes games that already exist perhaps not.

The 39-in-1 thing is just MAME in a cabinet, from memory. Even if it did work, it would be rather pointless for MARP purposes. That being said, MAME emulating itself is quite an awesome proposition...

Chad wrote:Which particular romset were you looking at?

The "multigam", "multigmb" and "cham24" romsets mentioned above all contain various games to play. Even though "cham24" is flagged not working, it seems to be playable enough to record .inps for.

mahlemiut wrote:The 39-in-1 thing is just MAME in a cabinet, from memory. Even if it did work, it would be rather pointless for MARP purposes. That being said, MAME emulating itself is quite an awesome proposition...

plus then, you know 39in1 would be in the next 40in1 package.

so then you would have mame running within mame running within mame....lots of splits then!

I think with these new "collections" MARP should just track what is unique in them. For the couple of namco collections...isn't just the new "arrangement" of each game tracked? the "original" of that isn't tracked.

ie. not galaga but galaga arrangement is tracked.
not mappy...but mappy arrangement is tracked.

etc.

LN2 wrote:plus then, you know 39in1 would be in the next 40in1 package.

so then you would have mame running within mame running within mame....lots of splits then!

And no-one will be playing it anyway, because it will be so damn slow...

Several games in 1 need split, even if that's a lot.
From memory, I've talked to Pat for splitting cham24, but as nobody play it so much, he probably didn't put that as an urgent stuff.