Why do you keep removing my posts?

Hi, just another quick question, as your working on the database detection thing, what roms are you basing it on ? The TOSEC sets or the new No-Intro sets (or both) ?

Neither really, or if we must then we would probably use all available information. We know fairly well which games are dumped on SMS because Tommy and myself are fairly involved in that "scene".

A retrorant

I don't really like TOSEC or NoIntro projects, they just aren't run professionally enough in my opinion and NoIntro are catering for the minority (people with real hardware that have cart writers). I like that they at least wanted to try something different, but it's just not a good enough solution.

Funnily enough it's not until I came out with RetroCopy that others started trying to get their own "new" formats out there, like the MESS project in one of its very old systems that they are thinking of applying to others. But it's another half baked idea because the people involved don't want to write any tools for it (basically putting a XML file in a ZIP and calling that a new format).

I've spent weeks/months writing tools, converters and thinking up the best universal format possible, something no one has really bothered to do before. And the best thing is something like RetroCopy is the EXTREME end of why you need a new ROM format so it's the best possible example to show. Nothing else is going to be able to do what RetroCopy can do unless they come up with something like GAME.

Every step of the way there have been the naysayers criticizing it because they are stuck in the old way of thinking about emulators. You even have people like byuu stating he is upset that nothing has changed when it comes new formats then when he could actually do something about it he doesn't (and also criticized GAME). All in all there are a lot of sookie lalas out there that don't like change or just like complaining about things without ever doing anything about them. I don't associate myself with such people because if I did I would never get anything done.

how is TOSEC not professional? they have a rigorous authentication system to prove that you did a good dump and they dump the exact raw data of the game and leave nothing out.