Slightly OT: Interesting MAME statistics.

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Grasshopper:

--- Quote from: yotsuya on November 15, 2015, 02:35:39 pm ---Because the MAME developers don't care about your cab, their goal is to document and emulate their machines from those decades, including the ones you never played. Just like the Pi developers don't care about your bartop project, they have different goals. If you want to do something different than their stated goals, that's your problem, not thers.

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I agree that, as they're doing the work, they're perfectly entitled to take the project in any direction they choose, however misguided. However, the whole "documenting the hardware" line was introduced quite late in the day. The original MAME developers were much more focused on actually playing the games.

My solution is simply to keep on using an older version of MAME. Sure, it's a shame to miss out on some bugfixes, and the tiny number of worthwhile games that have only become available in more recent versions of MAME. But I'm afraid that the current Mamedevs have made the price too high for me.

Howard_Casto:
Yeah but again, you just aren't getting it. The issues we are facing contradict the spirit of a documentation project.

Go back and read my replies again and maybe you'll understand. A library of hardware has been created without any card catalog, indexing system or librarians. This is horrible and unorganized regardless of if you are a guy interested in the chips used for cps2 games or a guy running mame on a cabinet. Without some basic categories you have to know what games/drivers you are looking for ahead of time and that is NOT how you learn new things. You do so by finding things you don't know anything about.

It can't be billed as a documentation project if they are unwilling to document things.

yotsuya:
My comments are directed towards us builders and how we use MAME. If you want it to work a certain way, just do it that way. You're not going to change the focus of the project. Get over it and get on with it.

ark_ader:

--- Quote ---It can't be billed as a documentation project if they are unwilling to document things.

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The Mamedevs have been saying that for years so they don't get sued or thrown in jail. Its always about the games and how fast they can get "their" wish list together. Most of the core stuff we use was done years ago by more accomplished programmers than we have today. It is a lost cause, and only a few coders remain from the old days, like Haze. He ranted as much if you can remember a few years back about the state of the project. Maybe Aaron will come back and lead them from the dark. Just don't hold your breath.

Document? ::)

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