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When sending anything to a Burner, ensure you enclose a pre-addressed padded bag plus stamps ready for immediate return. Do not expect the burner to (a) find out where you live, or (b) pay for your postage if you do not enclose any form of address or payment for postage.
Write your e-mail address on the back of the parcel. This means the Burner can easily identify and contact you!
Goods Tracking.
If you e-mail the burner when you dispatch your materials then they can then look out for your parcel in the post, and acknowledge delivery. Remember they could be receiving several parcels a week - you will need to identify which is yours.
The Burner can also let you know when the completed package is being returned. These steps are a safeguard against lost packages going undetected; the Burning Team cannot be held accountable for goods lost in the post, but this procedure will at least provide progress reports and flag up astray packages at the earliest opportunity.
Now pick one of the following methods...
1. Send a Hard Disk Drive to a burner
There are four main types, all of which are acceptable:
- 2.5" laptop drive - internal (bare) drive
- 2.5" laptop drive - external (USB powered) drive
- 3.5" desktop drive - internal (bare) drive
- 3.5" desktop drive - powered external drive
We currently cater for IDE drives only (PATA and SATA). Due to the wide range of SCSI interfaces, SCSI drives are not presently accepted.
A drive of at least 320 GB capacity is needed. Although laptop drives are more robust and shock resistant, careful packaging is required to safeguard the delicate parts of a bare drive. Postal insurance is also recommended, due to the cost of the drives.
2. "Burn & Return" option
Obtain some excellent quality DVDs (the choice of manufacturer of the DVDs
is very important: cheap disks tend to fail easily). See your burners local page for details of acceptable disk brands and type.
Currently all the ROM binaries for MAME 144 currently fit onto 11-57 blank DVDs (or 7 for updates only), but sending spare media safeguards against disk failure.
If there is insufficient capacity to contain the ROM binaries, you will receive only what the burner can provide under those circumstances.
Note: Due to the immense size of the MAME set, it has become less likely that burners
will offer their time to burn that many DVDs, so the recommend course of action is option 1
Other ROMsets offered...
Many Burners are interested in emulation other just MAME so are likely to have broad collections to offer. If you are interested in obtaining other sets then feel free to contact Burners with a tentative enquiry - but remember that this is in addition to them burning ROMsets for use with MAME, so any such request tends to take a lower priority.
Do NOT expect a Burner to copy everything they have - this places a great demand upon their time and effort.
Similarly, do not request inventories from Burners - they are not interested in sending out "shopping lists"; simply place a request for sets you are interested in and the Burner will try to help you out.
Communications of this type will most likely be ignored or be posted publicly in the howlers section of Lazarus to show that a long record of polite and understanding requests will - once in a while - encounter the occasional idiot.
Remember that this is a free and voluntary service; Burners fit your requests around *their* time, so be patient until they complete your task. Generally, expect a 7-10 day turnaround time, but this can vary with the increase in popularity of the service. Demands for higher priority will be ignored, and each member of the Burning Team reserves the right to withdraw the service if they are unhappy with the nature of the request.
