: Many users find this version more reliable than newer releases, which often require specific, hard-to-find files or suffer from broken sound in certain sets.

A true is a machine-readable XML file (generated via mame -listxml ) that contains:

<game name="pacman"> <description>Pac-Man (Midway)</description> <year>1980</year> <manufacturer>Midway</manufacturer> <rom name="pacman.6e" size="4096" crc="c1e6ab10" sha1="e6e25a7d..."/> <rom name="pacman.6f" size="4096" crc="1a7b9c84" sha1="cef4a3b9..."/> ... </game>

The is a digital time capsule. It represents the last generation of MAME before the focus shifted entirely to 3D arcade boards and Laserdisc emulation.