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Yie Ar Kung-Fu has THREE buttons, not TWO!?!
Xiaou2:
--- Quote ---I'm quite happy with MAME as it is now.
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And that is the problem. People like you who do not understand the value of real preservation. Half-Ass everything.
--- Quote ---You're just too lazy to actually bother to learn to program.
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Actually no, Ive tried to learn. But I dont have the kind of mind that excels at it. We all have out limitations in life, and Im very realistic about what I can and can not do - even though I have tried in my past.
I could say the same thing about people with Art. "Ohh, the reason you cant draw a good picture is cause your too lazy". But that would be complete BS. Being an artist is not merely a set of rules and practice. Artists think and see things differently than other types of minds... and as such, there are some things that just cant be taught or developed to anywhere near the same level by people who are not of that mindtype.
Your limited perspective and complete ignorance blinds you to the reality that really exists.
Haze:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on November 14, 2010, 01:44:56 pm ---
--- Quote ---I'm quite happy with MAME as it is now.
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And that is the problem. People like you who do not understand the value of real preservation. Half-Ass everything.
--- Quote ---You're just too lazy to actually bother to learn to program.
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Actually no, Ive tried to learn. But I dont have the kind of mind that excels at it. We all have out limitations in life, and Im very realistic about what I can and can not do - even though I have tried in my past.
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Then you can't really complain about things can you? You say you have limitations, but refuse to acknowledge the limitations of the current dev team, but instead would rather insult them for it? I don't know how to make the chances you want, they don't concern me, I have no reason to look into making them apart from you demanding I do so. I'm happy to have played my role.
I could just as easily say your efforts to learn to program were half-ass.
I told you, if you want the changes made that you suggest, you need a NEW dev team. Nicola took the project as far as he could. I took the project as far as I could, now Aaron has taken it as far as he can IMHO. The problem is that unlike when I took over from Nicola, and Aaron took over from me, Aaron doesn't really have much of a team left.
The fact that you're willing to write off the tremendous amount of work that has gone into MAME as half-ass and sit here calling myself and other developers who have dedicated years of our free time to working on it 'blind' shows exactly how much we should value your opinion, and gratefulness for the things that are done and how important the work that HAS been done is important to overall preservation picture.
Xiaou2:
Its funny how you go from the complexity of "change text color" to Lightgun.
But whatever.. anyone can see right through that bs.
--- Quote --- so no, having it both ways for every possible case you can think of is not a workable solution, at all.
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Strange, cause lightguns do work in mame, as do all the other things in it, that have been working for some time.
However, the problem is not about dual choice of controls... its about the ways in which they are programmed in. If mames input system wasnt such a mess, it would be a lot more maintainable. Less resembling hacks, and much more structured.
Haze:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on November 14, 2010, 01:52:17 pm ---Its funny how you go from the complexity of "change text color" to Lightgun.
But whatever.. anyone can see right through that bs.
--- Quote --- so no, having it both ways for every possible case you can think of is not a workable solution, at all.
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Strange, cause lightguns do work in mame, as do all the other things in it, that have been working for some time.
However, the problem is not about dual choice of controls... its about the ways in which they are programmed in. If mames input system wasnt such a mess, it would be a lot more maintainable. Less resembling hacks, and much more structured.
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Well to me, changing the colour of text in some core menu is just as much of a big task as the lightgun support, because both are areas of the codebase I know nothing about. Again, your ignorance is showing through. Text colour changes would probably involve significant changes to the UI rendering system, as well as the inputport system, both of which are areas of the code I don't touch because they don't concern my work on the project at all.
As for lightguns? Do they work? The amount of bitching that occurs about them on a regular basis makes me think otherwise, and given only a fraction of the userbase even use them, it makes me think they probably aren't really reliable.
I've already said another level of abstraction would help. I've told you that there is nobody to code this. The MAME input system is fine for 99.99% of users tho, so, apart from demand once again that I do the work for you, and insulting me for not doing it, what are you going to do?
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on November 14, 2010, 01:30:50 pm --- If i had only had a programmers brain
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