romset

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noun

A group of related ROM images required to emulate a particular game.

Scrabble 8

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nounromset (plural romsets)

plural romsets

  1. 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)
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    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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APA

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