Playchoice 10 ROM-Images can be stored in two formats:
PC10 games in iNES format are indicated by Bit1 of Byte 7 of the iNES header. If the flag is set, then the file should contain some additional entries after the PRG ROM and CHR ROM areas:
The two required PROM sections are missing in older ROM-images. A tool for upgrading such incomplete dumps can be found at http://problemkaputt.de/pc10make.zip
Note: Some very old ROM-images don't have the PC10 flag set in the header, and, instead, they declare the 8K INST ROM as an additional VROM bank.
Instead of using a single ROM-image file, MAME stores all ROMs, EPROMs, and PROMs chips in separate files.
The PROM data is typically stored in a file called "security.prm". It contains only the 16 Data bytes (not the CounterOut bytes). All bits in the PROM file are inverted, and the bit ordering is reversed: bit0 (the first bit of the PROM's serial bit-stream) is stored in bit7 of the 1st byte of the file).
The iNES format is used by no$nes. The MAME format is used by MAME.