MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Why is Super Moon Cresta part of the main game romset?

> I get why some games have clones that are natively part of the main romset (like Nato
> Defense), but I just noticed that Super Moon Cresta, a bootleg, is accessible right
> from the base romset.
>
> Surely a bootleg can't use just the exact same game data, right?

Let's see:

Code:

% ./mame64 -listroms mooncrst smooncrs
ROMs required for driver "mooncrst".
Name                                   Size Checksum
mc1                                    2048 CRC(7d954a7a) SHA1(a93ee403cfd7887538ad12d33f6dd6c71bea2a32)
mc2                                    2048 CRC(44bb7cfa) SHA1(349c2e23a9fce73f95bb8168d369082fa129fe3d)
mc3                                    2048 CRC(9c412104) SHA1(1b40054ebb1ace965a8522119bb23f09797bc5f6)
mc4                                    2048 CRC(7e9b1ab5) SHA1(435f603c0c3e788a509dd144a7916a34e791ae44)
mc5.7r                                 2048 CRC(16c759af) SHA1(3b48050411f65f9d3fb41ff22901e22d82bf1cf6)
mc6.8d                                 2048 CRC(69bcafdb) SHA1(939c8c6ed1cd4660a3d99b8f17ed99cbd7e1352a)
mc7.8e                                 2048 CRC(b50dbc46) SHA1(4fa084fd1ba5f78e7703e684c57af15ca7a844e4)
mc8                                    2048 CRC(18ca312b) SHA1(39219059003b949e38305553fea2d33071062c64)
mcs_b                                  2048 CRC(fb0f1f81) SHA1(38a6679a8b69bc1870a0e67e692131c42f9535c8)
mcs_d                                  2048 CRC(13932a15) SHA1(b8885c555c6ad7021be55c6925a0a0872c1b6abd)
mcs_a                                  2048 CRC(631ebb5a) SHA1(5bc9493afa76c55858b8c8849524cbc77dc838fc)
mcs_c                                  2048 CRC(24cfd145) SHA1(08c6599db170dd6ee364c44f70a0f5c0f881b6ef)
mmi6331.6l                               32 CRC(6a0c7d87) SHA1(140335d85c67c75b65689d4e76d29863c209cf32)

ROMs required for driver "smooncrs".
Name                                   Size Checksum
927                                    2048 CRC(55c5b994) SHA1(3451b121fa22361b2684385cf5d4455fa6963215)
928a                                   2048 CRC(77ae26d3) SHA1(cbc16a024b73bedff76a6c47336d6ef098e92c53)
929                                    2048 CRC(716eaa10) SHA1(780fc785e6651f19dc1a0ccf48cf9485d6562a71)
930                                    2048 CRC(cea864f2) SHA1(aaaf9f8dd126dfb4a4f52f39863fee02a56a6485)
931                                    2048 CRC(702c5f51) SHA1(5ba8d87c93c4810b8e7c2ad4ee376cd806e83686)
932a                                   2048 CRC(e6a2039f) SHA1(f0f240dd8ac7cd2d9994cb7341b59d7a0a3eaf26)
933                                    2048 CRC(73783cee) SHA1(69760e25ba22645572ec16b4f9136ee84ed0c766)
934                                    2048 CRC(c1a14aa2) SHA1(99f6b01a0acd5e936d6ae61c13599db603b73191)
epr203                                 2048 CRC(be26b561) SHA1(cc27de6888eaf4ee18c0d37d9bcb528dd282b838)
mcs_d                                  2048 CRC(13932a15) SHA1(b8885c555c6ad7021be55c6925a0a0872c1b6abd)
epr202                                 2048 CRC(26c7e800) SHA1(034192e5e2cbac4b66a9828f5ec2311c2c368781)
mcs_c                                  2048 CRC(24cfd145) SHA1(08c6599db170dd6ee364c44f70a0f5c0f881b6ef)
mmi6331.6l                               32 CRC(6a0c7d87) SHA1(140335d85c67c75b65689d4e76d29863c209cf32)

Nope, it's using plenty of ROMs that are not in the parent set. You must have the files for the original and bootleg in the same archive.