MAMEWorld Forums - Programming - Re: Adding new versions of games to drivers

> Ok that's great! Thanks for the help!
> I just have another few questions I forgot to ask:
> Firstly, I noticed that my rom filenames breach the 8:3 filename standard, I assume
> that's fine as you've stated one above anyway, is it just the zipfile name that must
> conform?

No, there is no length limit on ROM names, only on set names.

> If I do manage to get this working (which hopefully I should, it sounds fairly simple
> now), when it comes to submitting it, is it best I upload the roms to my webspace
> (the roms are only 32k each) and put a link in a text file with the submitted diff or
> do I upload the new roms with the diff to Mamedev?
> Lastly, when looking at the zipfiles, do I need to change the zips so the four Rev A.
> files are in a zip with the rest of the files and the other (original) four files are
> in a zip of their own (for example, hangon1) or do I leave it for Mamedev to change?

Do NOT email unsolicited binary files to MAMEDev (or to anyone, it's extremely bad netiquette) Upload the ROMs somewhere and tell MAMEDev where to get them. Also, if you want to submit a source patch yourself, please carefully read the instructions and guidelines at http://mamedev.org/submit.html

Management of zipped sets is up to individual users and archivers. MAMEDev only needs your new, unique ROMs, you don't need to repackage the already-dumped ones. For your own use, you can move the "old" program ROMs to hangon1.zip, or just put both versions into hangon.zip together (this is what a "fully merged set" is)