Vas Crabb

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There are lots of poorly named sound devices in MAME where the device type name implies it’s the whole system.

Index markers are just a subchannel field. If you use a raw sector format for the data, the index markers will be preserved correctly.

Yeah, we’re aware not all TOC and CUE directives are supported (IIRC TOC zero fill is another thing that isn’t handled).

Does changing it to be less specific help? If these are actually GTINs as opposed to some other barcode scheme, I would expect using a more specific `gtin` info item...

It gets more complicated when things have multiple barcodes. We’ve already got things with both a GTIN and an ISBN in msx2_flop.xml. Taking Chaos Angel as an example, I’m not...

I think it’s better to limit the “_orig” lists to dumps believed to come from unmodified disks. For example I wouldn’t add the dump with an apparently corrupted boot sector...

Several of these games do have full eight-way joystick input hardware and were typically used with standard control panels even if gameplay only uses two directions. In cases like this,...

To be honest, I think the optional flag should just be removed from I/O port fields. It’s rarely used, it would be too much trouble to go through every game...

The dumps are all suspect due to the weird sizes, though. It looks like someone already tried to trim them. Almost all GBA ROMs are power of two sizes. The...

Yeah, it’s annoying. We often don’t have channels to ask the dumpers what’s going on.