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Was piracy/bootlegging rampant in the days of coin op arcades?

 

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Just looking at the final burn neo romset, I see that tons of the games are marked as [bootleg]. Whats that about? were bootleg roms so popular at arcades back in the day that Mame bothered to preserve them? Why keep them at all if its trivial to just download the proper non-bootleg versions?

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Just looking at the final burn neo romset, I see that tons of the games are marked as [bootleg]. Whats that about? were bootleg roms so popular at arcades back in the day that Mame bothered to preserve them? Why keep them at all if its trivial to just download the proper non-bootleg versions?

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