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plural romsets
- video gamesA group of related ROM images required to emulate a particular game.
You are right re the romsets, MAME uses different sets for a lot of games, you can't intermix Neorage and MAME sets.
2001, Paul Irvine, “NeoGeo”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet)1 more example
I am looking for a rom dump of a Swedish or Finnish C64. They seem to have an alternate romset than the ones used elsewhere (probably because of the characters used in those countries).
2000, Ben Castricum, “Searching for a Swedish/Finnish C64 romset”, in comp.sys.cbm (Usenet)
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romset. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/romset
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