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Don't let the clickbait headline dissuade you, this is a great read if you're into emulation/retrogaming/any kind of software preservation.

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What would be a better, i.e. more accurate and neutral title? We can change it.

Edit: I changed it to "I accidentally deleted a bad game revision from MAME" for now - is that accurate enough?

Might be more accurate to change “accidentally” to “intentionally”.

Or “I found a bad dump in MAME and corrected it”

I expected to add a game to MAME but instead proved that it didn't exist

I accidentally found a phantom MAME game revision

That might be the first recorded case of a subpar headline detracting from actual quality content :)

What about "Adventures in MAME ROM dumping and games preservation"? It's the one that might stand the test of time to be useful for posterity.

Works fine - thanks!

Quite frankly no, it’s not. The original title was fine and a pleasant way to cap the story off.

It's the 'accidentally' part that's the problem. Finding out that you need to delete something is not the same as accidentally deleting it.

'Unexpectedly' would be a little more accurate I think. Or just 'That time I deleted a game from MAME'.

Yup... but the headline is still very clickbaity! In the end it turns out they didn't delete a game, they deduplicated it (i.e. deleted a game that was listed as a separate version, but was actually identical to the original), and they didn't do it accidentally, but on purpose.

Yeah, agreed. I’m not actually into this scene but I enjoyed the write up.

without any experience in emulation or software preservation i still really enjoyed the post.

i was waiting in suspense for the author to make a mistake and was so relieved when i saw they did not. when they were talking about the socket i was thinking "oh no, they must have cracked something"...

Seeing as the "clickbait" headline is now gone, what was it before?

"I accidentally deleted a game from MAME"

Thanks!

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