
Like, some Raspberry device or very old smartphones. The only reason they are maintained is so they can run on tin cans. Yeah, that MAME version is basically Retro by itself. Or, if you want your mind to be blown, 0.37 is as old as Pac-Man was when that version was released in 2000. The older one (0.37) is so old, MAME was only 3 years old when it was released. These sets are also supported by some common MAME android ports and libretro cores.Īs you can see by the years of release the numbers represent, the most recent one of these is already more than a decade old. If you ever downloaded a pre-made Pi setup, chances are it had the 0.78 romset in it.
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So what are the old versions/romsets? The most common ones i see in circulation and used in most arcade setups are 0.37 (MAME 2000), 0.78 (MAME 2003) and 0.139 (MAME 2010). I'd like to have this thread so we can gather information about them and why they exist, or what's their use in current day, if there is a reason to use them at all.
