So let me introduce you to where I'm currently tracking the "MAME emulation" / documentation status of discrete logic (TTL-based, no CPU) arcade games:
https://mamedev.emulab.it/undumped/index.php?title=Discrete
Some guidelines it uses:
1. Priority is on video arcade games... why? Because once MAME emulates them based on schematics, PCB scans, oscilloscope measurements and graphics ROM dumps, we can _easily_ verify if the emulation is working properly based on YouTube recordings and actual PCBs and such. Non-video games require lots of artwork to be scanned to even look close to the real thing. So... for reproducibiity of testing, I guess.
2. We don't want to add any more games lacking CRTs to this list yet. "But what about the wall games that were added, and the electromechanical, and the pinball? There's plenty more of those!" ... those came from the sources we mined for info. For now, to make comparing/contrasting some of my sources for this list easier - until we're done with doing that, they stay but do not grow.
3. If we really did miss some video arcade games that lack CPUs, just tell us (the wiki editors), and we'll add it.
4. Debunked a game sufficiently for it to be removed as not existing? Also let us know.
5. Slowly, all the jotted-down notes will be put back into a page per game, properly linked to
Discrete Logistics,
Arcade-History,
Flyer Fever,
TAFA,
KLOV, and many other information sources as needed.
6. In case you are familiar with the Undumped wiki - unlike other pages on the Undumped wiki, this time we DO want to make pages for dumped games, just because a game is dumped does not mean documented enough for emulation. We've listed games currently simulated in MAME (Pong, Pong Doubles, Breakout) on a
separate list.
7. This page is just for status tracking. (Is it dumped? Do we have schematics? If not, or if the schematics suck, do we have PCBs accessible? etc. etc.) Since this is a wiki, we'll primarily be linking to other sources of information and/or correcting that information when we can spare the time.
8. Want an account to help with this process? Let us know and we'll send you an invite.
It's taken us a long time to get us back to this point, similar to what The Bronzeage Archive had done back in the day.
NOTE: The "Undumped Wiki", while hosted at a domain called mamedev.emulab.it, is not an official project of the MAME project.