Game Exclusion Policy
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2002 5:25 pm
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.
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.