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In reply to the discussion: Vintage games - anyone into MAME? [View all]FSogol
(45,431 posts)There is a freeware rom manager program to rebuild rom sets called ClrMamePro (http://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/) It can create a list of the files that are missing. Many roms are dependent on the roms in other files.
There is a torrent site called Pleasuredome (http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk/) where you can download torrents of roms. (Beware a full set contains over 10,000 games and is over 100 gb.)
The binary usenet group alt.biniaries.games.mame will also fill requests if you are missing roms. (Post a list of what you want -hopefully a fixdat file from clrmamepro) and it gets posted within hours.
Almost no company is doing anything with copyrights on these old games with a few exceptions.
You can also get any questions answered on alt.games.mame