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http://www.freemameroms.com/ is how I got my 4GBs worth of ROMs (a complete merged set) with over 3000 working roms.

Just USPSed a guy 7 discs, and a SASE about a week later I got my 7 discs back full of piping hot MAME goodness. Also, the set the guy that burned my set also sent almost all the flyers/marquee art, a bunch of wallpapers, etc. all kinds of neat stuff.

I guess it could be hit or miss on who you get to burn for you, but it worked for me, and what do you lose out if they don't return the discs, 7 CD-Rs and your address - now I provide my pals with a DVD with MAME32 and a full rom set (have to scrap some of the icons/marquees/junk to get it to fit) that is playable from a DVD-Drive.

You wrote that the freemameroms service cost you less than ten dollars, which I'm assuming are USD. However, not everybody is that lucky. For some users, it also costs 30 USD per year for a paid e-mail service provider, as the operator of the service refuses initial contact e-mail from paying members of the MSN ISP for spam prevention reasons. In some geographic areas, the butterfly is the only available residential cable-or-DSL Internet access provider.

You wrote that the freemameroms service cost you less than ten dollars, which I'm assuming are USD. However, not everybody is that lucky. For some users, it also costs 30 USD per year for a paid e-mail service provider, as the operator of the service refuses initial contact e-mail from paying members of the MSN ISP for spam prevention reasons. In some geographic areas, the butterfly is the only available residential cable-or-DSL Internet access provider.

I just got my freemame discs in the mail the other day and I'm having a blast. No need to download 8+ gigs of roms when you can get them on 2 dvds.

Next step is to undertake building a cabinet. If you're interested in emulators defintely check out freemame. I got mine for 9 bucks.

check out a list of the people who do it

or, for the cost of media, u can get the roms from theFreeMameRoms project.

I just had a ROM burner from www.freemameroms.com burn me the entire .72 MAME ROM set on 3 DVDRs.

I don't think people should pay for games that do not produce revenue anymore for the company who produced them.

Do you think Jaleco gets revenue from Earth Defense Force?

Knightfall writes "Well, it seems remembering those games may soon be all that is left. As companies are dropping support, but not property rights to our old favorites, many are in danger of vanishing forever. [stuff deleted] What can we do to prevent them from no longer being available?"

"oh! the sky is falling! the sky is falling!" blah, blah, blah, blah...
Mame, MAme, MAMe, MAME!

'nuff said

freemameroms.com you know... the tombstones-esque mame rom cd burning service... That's what I did for my mame cabinet so i could relive the classics on "real" controls... *Shrug* E.

Where can I get the ROMs of the best classical games from?

FreeMameRoms Project

FreeMameRoms is a group of people who burn MAME ROMs for others. Basically, you send them blank CDs/DVDs, or money to buy them, and they will burn and send you a set.

In particular, if you live in the US, Ryland is a nice guy. He has both the actual ROM set/CHD collection AND the extras, such as icons and artwork.

There are many many sites out there charging US$100 or more for MAME sets. It is in direct response to their actions that the Tombstone Group was formed. Due to some provider problems they were shutdown for a time. To keep the scammers from taking over during their absence, Lazarus and FreeMAMERoms took over.
There maybe other burning groups, these are just the ones I am aware of.
If you want to know what I mean by scammers do a Google for "Emu on CD" for a Brazillian site. (Please don't give them any money)

http://www.freemameroms.com/

You mail a blank cd/dvd, they mail you back a full cd/dvd. Fo free.