12/24/1996 11:32 PM

>>3376861
Because anything after that isn't retro

>>3376861
old date format? y2k was real

>>3376861
Probably somebody using an older computer to create the rom files that's clock and date were off. A lot of ROMS come from the same few groups so it would make sense.

>>3376861
>>/x/

Pirates not udating their disk copier date (Super Magic Drive, Super WildCard, etc) each time they turned it on...

>>3376861
Maybe it's an in joke with those guys. It's around the time Santa is supposed to be delivering fat kids easy bake ovens, like the joke is they're giving you all these games, and when you find them it'll be just like Christmas morning. Everything having the same time may be so you'll realize the roms are from the same people. 1996 might have been when they started or finished ripping everything, or when they did most of it.

Then again, since it's a modified date, not a created date, they might have mass assigned a file extension or something.

I'm always looking for hidden meaning with things like this though, just because I know how people are, making a noticeable mark on something that would other wise be done anonymously. I used to do welding in a refinery, when I climbed in tight spaces or up high to do work I would use my paint pen to crudely draw a face of a wild west villain (that guy who ties damsels to train tracks). I still hear people ask about them from time to time, and to this day no one knows who did them, but they've seen them and remember them.

>>3377171
It still seems that it would advance time, even if only by a minute or two.

>>3377270
kek i love people like you

programmer here. its likely that the os not reasing the date format correctly and defaulting to that date. kind of like unix default time stamp being dec 1969.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

>its likely a string formatting error as the rom dumper uses a different date

baka nothing but a bunch of retrokiddies in this thread.

1996/12/24 23:32 was the timestamp of the very first build of MAME. This timestamp is now used in tools like torrentzip as a way of ensuring consistent file hashes, so verified data can be shared across computers consistently.

>>3379293
I can vouch for this fellow old man, see you at the pleasuredome