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the state of mame
Haze:
--- Quote from: shateredsoul on December 16, 2010, 01:00:43 am ---I'm interested in hearing more about mame dev and what games are getting worked, not about accusations about who thinks which generation of gamers want etc. Everyone has their interests, if someone gets involved in mame and loves 90s games and that's all they work on that's fine by me.. it's their time and choice.
Anywho, so who's going to volunteer to be on the mame team? ::)
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Yeah, my point was just that if people are going to go around saying 'MAME is done because 2 games are emulated, nothing else matters' then it's not really greatly encouraging, or an accurate reflection of how things are, and the sheer amount of work that DOES need doing. There are still major platform drivers in need of a complete overhaul, the amount of bugs in the Taito F3 and Konami GX implementations show this, and in both of those cases an entire audio DSP is unemulated, so they don't even sound that close to the original. Nobody (to my knowledge) is working on any of that despite them being major platforms with important games. Even somebody who isn't a perfectionist can tell you they have a long way to go. To say MAME is done, or even to say the important games work perfectly, is far from the truth. There is room all over the project for somebody to come in and make big improvements.
I see X2 has come to troll as well, rather than actually taking this in and seeing exactly why it means nobody is going to make the changes he wants.
between them pinballjim and X2 really do make this a hostile and unwelcoming place to post.
upprc04:
Who would we need to talk to if we wanted to get involved? I would maybe be interested at some point, but am pretty busy at the moment. Looks like Haze?
DillonFoulds:
Haze wrote that article, and while I'm not sure of how he currently works with the team, I think he'd be a good foot into the whole project.
And yeah Haze, the regulars really are just here to troll. If you ignore them, they'll go away... maybe... one day...
Mikezilla:
--- Quote ---between them pinballjim and X2 really do make this a hostile and unwelcoming place to post
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Really? I actually laughed when I read that. Cmon, dont you think youre over exaggerating just a wee bit? First of all, he is kidding, cmon now, if you cant take a joke like that then damn, maybe you SHOULDNT be on these forums. It really bugs me when people cant take an obvious joke. Especially on an internet forum dedicated to video games. Old ones.
Does it really matter in the big scheme of things if some games dont get emulated and MAME is done with? Is it going to cure cancer? Jesus. They are games. Everyone pretty much has everything they want anyway. The reason why no big names are involved with the MAME project, is because there is no money involved. Someone will come along (such as yourself) and help it along because they are passionate about it. Its not like it cant be started up again even after most of the original developers are off the project.
Rick:
A link to this has been posted on Reddit.
Edited for better link.