This creates a preservation nightmare. If you take a raw hard drive dump from a Street Fighter IV arcade machine and plug it into a standard gaming PC, it will crash. The game is looking for specific arcade hardware dongles (security keys), specific graphics card IDs, or specific BIOS revisions. The "dump" is useless without a way to trick the software into thinking it is still inside its original cabinet.
When collectors discuss arcade PC dumps, they talk about "sets." Here are the three major eras you will encounter: arcade pc dumps
Three trends are shaping the future:
| Type | Example | |------|---------| | ROM set (ZIP) | sf2.zip (Street Fighter II) | | CHD | kinst.chd (Killer Instinct) | | NVRAM/EEPROM | saved high scores / settings | | Device dumps | DSP, MCU, PAL/GAL | This creates a preservation nightmare