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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'.

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.