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This is the thread where we request MAME ROMs.

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 2:53 pm
by Ben
Galaga 88
Bubble Bobble
Deathrace (or whatever the game was where you ran over people for points.)

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 2:56 pm
by Ben
Mystic Marathon
Joust 2
Roadblasters
STUN Runner

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 3:43 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
I think I have every single one of those at home.

Would it work if I created a distinct page off the www site with download links to those ROMs, and future ROMs?

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 5:08 pm
by Ben
Yes, except DON'T GET IN TROUBLE!!!!!! If you post the Deathrace ROM, you are potentially taking valuable business away from... you know, that company that made Deathrace...

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 5:27 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
What would probably help would be if there were a way to stop people from linking to the ROMs from outside the BBS.

Boy, if only I had the HTML code for that. Or... if only there were a guy who wrote his own webpage from scratch in the last couple of months, who eats, breathes and sleeps this stuff!! Dammatron!!! If only!

Though this BBS is so small, I doubt it's an issue. Can I take this opportunity to thank all of you who come by here every day and contribute? I think you're one of the best buncha guys (and gals!) on the internet. I get a chuckle from one of you every time I login. Y'all doing some serious rocking, in other words.

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 6:09 pm
by Lex
Shut the fuck up, and give us our fucking roms.

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 9:35 pm
by bruce
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I think I have every single one of those at home.

Would it work if I created a distinct page off the www site with download links to those ROMs, and future ROMs?
Yeah, but I thought I'd mention that I bought a set of like 10 CDs with ROMS on them from, uhh, http://www.tombstones.org.uk/~arcadelover/

It was something like ten bucks, which seemed to be a reasonable deal.

Bruce

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 10:53 pm
by Ben
Yeah, no kidding.

Where's our goddamn ROMs, Mr. "Oh, I love my lovely users so much!! KISSYFACE!!!"

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 11:05 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
thinking....

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 11:53 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
OK, I gotta consult my ROMs on CD, but here are some of them that I had locally:

http://www.joltcountry.com/downloads/Mame/roadblst.zip
http://www.joltcountry.com/downloads/Mame/bublbobl.zip
http://www.joltcountry.com/downloads/Mame/galaga.zip
http://www.joltcountry.com/downloads/Mame/galagabl.zip
http://www.joltcountry.com/downloads/Mame/galaganm.zip

Wh!cH sI gAlAgA 88??? IT SI A MISTERY!!!

Maybe none of them. Still checking. Will update thread soon. Wish me luck. Tell wife Helen not to marry and squirt out two kids if I don't make it back.

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 4:02 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
Did those work for anybody?

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 5:42 pm
by Ben
Roadblasters worked.
Bubble Bobble did not.

The rest I didn't try, because none of them are Galaga 88 (which is what I requested, I should point out.)

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 6:01 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
thinking...

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 6:03 pm
by Forum Ninja
I will assassinate you if you type "thinking" one more time.

Cheers,


The Forum Ninja

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 9:21 pm
by Galaga Worm
You pay for ROMs?
Full .61 set

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 10:12 pm
by bruce
Galaga Worm wrote:You pay for ROMs?
Full .61 set
Good point, I guess.

But still: downloading 5G of ROMS takes a lot of time. More, in fact, than $11 of my time, which is about 20 minutes at my salary, about 40 minutes at my take-home-pay rate, and about 6 minutes at what I'm billed to clients at.

Even if I heavily discount my own time because it's, like, not onerous and I'm just screwing around, crippling my pr0n download speeds for, like, hours and hours and hours isn't worth the $11.

Bruce

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 11:02 pm
by Ben
Jesus Christ, just somebody give me galaga88.zip. Is that so "FUCKING"* hard to do?

* -- the car buyer in _Fargo_

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 12:21 am
by Ice Cream Jonsey

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 12:50 am
by Ben
Does not work.

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 1:05 am
by bruce
I am the MAMEYIST.

I just copied all those CDs over to the machine I bought to play NWN.

And then I played some Donkey Kong and some Berzerk, and then got my ass kicked by Frenzy.

Whoo!