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mahuti:
u_rebelscum makes an excellent point.

horseboy:
This is really a situational thing. For example, you probably don't want to pay people for custom mame builds, like u_rebelscum said. We don't want to do something to discourage Mame devs from including something that everbody wants, and we really don't want to do anything that jeopardizes the legality of Mame as a whole.

On the other hand I think it is a great idea to get thing implemented into frontends and other related apps. For example, I thought that it would be sweet for Johnny 5 to be able to control the LedWiz. Since Powermame is all but dead, I figured that this would be the best way to have correctly lit buttons in Mame (and even other emulators). HowardC, though, doesn't have a LedWiz, so McCoy and I decided to start rallying the troops to get $50 together to get a LedWiz for Howard. Howard didn't request any money. In fact, he turned it down, but he can't implement this functionality into J5 without a LedWiz.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=54998.0
This doesn't have anything to do with Mame directly, so I can't see any legal/ethical problems with it. It is simply spending a little cheese to get some extra features that you want, and this is the kind of thing that I think could help make some projects come to fruition. I like it.

BTW if you are a LedWizzer this is going to be sweet, so you can help us out in this cause.  :cheers:

Circo:
I will pay whatever to make my led-wiz finally work right. 

mahuti:
I'm a ledwizzer... that's for sure, I even built a crapplication to support it (see recent thread)

Kangum:

is there any fundraising for the standard mame developement here. not to do specific work, but fundraising as a whole for the mame developers.

your idea sounds good and im not knocking it, but I would like to see more solid fundraising type of activity here for the mame deveopers first. At least before something new is in place for optional work to be done. Because when it comes down to it without the standard mame development there wouldnt be any optional work to rally for.

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