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horseboy:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on March 26, 2007, 10:52:50 pm ---For those of us who are still new to BYOAC, can anyone please elaborate who Saint is?

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This guy...

If you see him run. He will bite.



--- Quote from: SavannahLion on March 26, 2007, 10:52:50 pm ---I understand he owns this site (his name is on the About page and sprinkled elsewhere), but what relation does he have with the MAMEDEV? Is he a MAMEDEV as well?

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He is no Mame dev, that is for sure. He does like model trains, though...

I'll leave you to chew on that for a while, and come up with your own conclusion.  :cheers:

vorghagen:
:notworthy: Saint: When it comes to building your own arcade machine. This guy wrote the book....... quite literally. BYOAM

tetsu96:

--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on March 26, 2007, 09:38:08 pm ---RBelmont said on MAMEWORLD:


--- Quote ---You *really* don't want to wave a red flag in front of the devs like that. We made BYOAC possible, we can unmake it.
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Not sure what that was in response to as the post he was referring to was deleted by the time I read it.  Something about HISCORE.DAT though?  I can't provide a direct link as I am forced to go through a proxy server which changes the URL.

Do the MAMEDevs have anything to do with BYOAC?
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There's no direct control / etc that I'm aware of for this site from MAME.  BYOAC transcends MAME because even though a whole bunch of people here have MAME cabs, BYOAC also encompasses building your own JAMMA cabs and Console / PC -> Cab setups as well.  Not to mention all the support you can find on existing cabs / hardware.

And like Randy said, give props to these guys.  MAME has been a WIP for over 10 years now, and RB goes back a long way with this project.  He, and other MAMEDEV, can be somewhat scathing in comments on forums (and funny usually), but the things they rip into others for tend to be the things that are always asked about like adding netplay to standalone cabinet games and insuring savestate compatability across MAME versions.

People newer to the hobby wouldn't know the hot topics right away but if they lurked a little more and searched forums before asking questions they'd be able to find out.

From a code perspective, I'm not sure how difficult it is to keep the savestates compatable from one version to the next, but MAME has been going through a lot of changes internally.  I'm sure that keeping the core of the system working while revamping as they see fit is a lot more important than emulating savestate features that often go beyond what machines did in arcades.

Crowquill:

--- Quote from: tetsu96 on March 27, 2007, 01:48:40 am ---He, and other MAMEDEV, can be somewhat scathing in comments on forums (and funny usually), but the things they rip into others for tend to be the things that are always asked about like adding netplay to standalone cabinet games and insuring savestate compatability across MAME versions.


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"Scathing" is an understatement in this case. This is a broad generalization that is more like a racial slur. Especially to be so full of himself that he has control of a website and community that he is in no way affiliated. If Marshall said something inappropriate, go off on him/her. I don't care what the post was, it doesn't deserve that response. I'm guessing Marshall wasn't claiming to be the webmaster of BYOAC. I'm wondering what the other devs think about that comment.

I am extremely appreciative of all the work that has gone into both official MAME and even the unofficial ones. A lot of talented people have spent a lot of time to make it the program it is today. But unlike R.Belmont's comments, I don't think "the devs" are jerks, just him/her.

Havok:
I can understand why RB got pissed - a copy of Mame was put up for download, with no source, no authorization, etc. Big no-no...

But... he's full of crap if he thinks he can "unmake" BYOAC - there's not a lick of Mame on my SEGA Turbo cab, or my Arachnid English Mark Darts machine, and I can find lots of great information here on how to repair them, or modify. I won't even go into the pleathora of monitor information, and pinball stuff too.

This isn't just a site about Mame, it's about the hardware too.

So, RB - you are a  :tool:, however, you are right about having that compiled version getting taken down.

 :P

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