as I said above most of the games have already been tested on each h/w revision.
it's all in the MAME source, along with dumps of games that were (previously) either hoarded or undumped.
the source is the key to MAME's knowledge....
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/drivers/
Thanks for the link... I've taken a look.. a few thoughts- not to be critical, but the reason why I started independent work on this years ago, starting with joint work on the google spreadsheet:
- Myself and a number of others have observed a number of games that do NOT work on "every drive"- I can provide video of this situation if you'd like even.
- I've observed (and talked with others in KLOV who had issues with Time Crisis 3 booting on a 246C.. this is being investigated as the 246C's compatibility should be identical to the Driving, A, and B models.
- The 256 model, I have not seen this- is it marked as such on the front barcode sticker? There ARE 2 versions that i'm aware of - Normal, and PB-Free (the text is seen inside the right memory card slot)
- There is also another 246 model that exists, but I've yet to find one in person- I only saw it going through old auctions a few year back- we commonly refer to it as the 246AB for lack of a better term as it appears to use the early revision COH board found in Driving and A revisions.
- Dragon Chronicle, Legend of the Master Arc: DGC11, Ver.A1 + DGC11 CD0
- Kinnikuman Muscle Grand Prix 2 Tokumori is a Type X game- one was recently on YJ.
- Gundam Seed II does NOT share the same NM number as Tekken Dark resurrection- I have over 10+ of the dongles, and they all have the code NM00034. It is likely your sample was a transplant or a mistake.
- Wangan Midnight R's Disc code is WMR1-A
- Wangan Midnight's Japanese Disc version is WMN1-A
- Tekken 5, the Version B signifies 5.1, TE51 is japan region, TE52 is export, so a 5.1 Japanese is TE51, Ver. B, while an export version is TE52, Ver.B.
- A Tekken 5.1 upgraded dongle (japanese or export), when mixed with a 5.0 disc (there's only a japanese region) will result in a game that's 5.0.
- A Tekken 5.1 export dongle will result in a strange overall game version when mixed with a japanese TE51 DVD0B, and will boot to service menu if the DIP is set, but not into game because the local IC card resources are missing from the disc.
- Hamutaro doesn't appear to be confirmed anywhere I can find as being on this system...
- Commonly, dongle codes were not printed with upgraded versions, and will carry a red ink dot from Namco's upgrade procedure to signify Ver.B or later. Some games like Soul Caliber II and it's 4+ dongle Versions leveraged a red dot for the first upgrade, then repeated pen markings for each upgrade thereafter marking WHICH version it was at.
- You appear to be missing a few other items unless I'm mistaken,like Whole Brain Training and Gundam vs. Gundam (Not NEXT).
- There are a number of legitimate unreleased games that had at one point been seen running on hardware, i.e. Samurai Surf, Starblade, etc.
- There's a number of commonly mis-translated names that have also been going around for a while. I've enlisted a few bilingual translators to sort out proper naming for games and the formatting that should be used on these titles.
- a bunch of other missing inventory info and compatibility updates are needed as well
I have no problem sharing once I'm done my independent testing of course- MAME has a clearly different focus than where I'm going, but lots of my data will crossover to your stuff.