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Understood. If someone wants to contribute this, I'd accept a PR. I don't have time unfortunately to look into it myself but it's an open source project.

Re: revisions, we do have revisions: the git sha is now used.

The real long-term solution is to fix the ROM loading so that it can handle any configuration of ROMs. It would theoretically be perfectly possible to specify a .zip file on the command line and then scan every other .zip file in the same folder for any missing files. I'd love to implement this when I have time but I'm slammed with contract work for the next couple months.

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One additional point: the ROM sets don't really change. MAME just reorganizes them. Occasionally, once a year or two, some new revision of a game is dumped. I'm genuinely surprised this comes up as a problem so often because I basically have been using the same ROM set for years. Yes, we've had to update the Games.xml to conform to MAME and that has "broken" some of my ROMs (i.e., some drive board file is now required or present somewhere else and I have to copy it over) but once these occasional hiccups are rectified, everything is fine. I guess people have all of their ROMs from a broader MAME set? I keep mine segregated in a Model 3 directory that never changes unless I have to do the aforementioned shuffling here and there.

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MAME 0.251

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