I'm fairly new to the MAME emulation despite knowing it for years. It baffles me that you have upgrade your roms if there is a new MAME release. Okay, no big deal! Until I found out that you have to download hundreds of gigs of roms to have a proper romset and pretty much required when updating. I can't really justify downloading over hundreds of gigs to update handful of roms I play.
All this years, how come nobody has ever thought of a way to update individual roms without having all mame roms in existence?
Like a simple software that scraps off websites like archive.org or pleasuredome. Point the software to your current roms and it'll let you know if it's time to replace it with latest ones, click update, your old roms gets overwritten with the latest ones. If only I know how to write such software, I would've already.
I mean no disrespect to the MAME scene. It's just, the whole thing feels so archaic.