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If you download a random "Street Fighter II" ROM from a generic website and try to run it in MAME 0.78, it will likely crash or show a "missing files" error. This is because MAME developers constantly re-dump arcade boards to get better data. A ROM that worked in version 0.120 might be renamed or restructured in 0.78. Download the matching 0