Game Exclusion Policy

[kelvSYC]

Here's another MESS-related hot topic:

Which groups of games are excluded based on your exclusion policy?

Here's what I'm doing for gameboy.dat:

- No bad dumps or overdumps. Those are bad roms and should be replaced with good ones anyways.
- No PDs. Same reason as why MAME doesn't allow homebrew games.
- No hacks or fixes. Those are made specifically to work on an emulator and thus, ruins the concept of accurate emulation.
- No trained roms or translations. It's that "patch piracy" issue. (Although I wouldn't be up for a ROM cheat that duplicates the function of the patch, either.)
- No unlicensed games. They're like homebrew games, anyways.

With my exclusion policy, I'd ony have to find or convert cheats from 2714 carts instead of 6492.

[stephh]

- No bad dumps or overdumps. Those are bad roms and should be replaced with good ones anyways.
- No unlicensed games. They're like homebrew games, anyways.

OK for me ...

- No PDs. Same reason as why MAME doesn't allow homebrew games.

Why ? I know some really cool PD CPC games ("Zap 'T' Balls" comes to my mind) ...

- No hacks or fixes. Those are made specifically to work on an emulator and thus, ruins the concept of accurate emulation.

That depends on what you call "hack" : for the CPC, almost all games have a (hacker group) intro, and/or are "conversions" of tape images so they can run as disk images ...

- No trained roms or translations. It's that "patch piracy" issue. (Although I wouldn't be up for a ROM cheat that duplicates the function of the patch, either.)

Some CPC games have ORIGINAL translations (eg: "Crafton & Xunk" in France is known as "Get Dexter" abroad) ...

With my exclusion policy, I'd ony have to find or convert cheats from 2714 carts instead of 6492.

BTW, where could I get the latest version of GoodCol, GoodCPC and zlib.dll ?

Steph from The Ultimate Patchers

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[Pugsy]

BTW, where could I get the latest version of GoodCol, GoodCPC and zlib.dll ?

I think you will find that Mike Haggar mirrors the GoodUtils, it's either that or you install MIRC and pop onto #rareroms on newnet.