Hi everyone, after a few months (years) following emulation from afar (I used to be a world-class lurker, then the mame.net / retrogames died, or withered), I had to take a look at current developments...
Cool Riders emulated ! GTI Club works ! Supermodel is out !! Some of the "unmentionable" games have been fixed...
The visibility of the project and number of active "people" (devs, commenters) are dwindling; in some cases, it helps the peace of mind of the project : gone are the hordes of CPS whiners, of clueless people who demand better performance and so on.
Most of the time though, obscurity and elitism still run through the "community". MAME is detached from the whole open-source movement and its staples (visibility on tech sites, "standard" bug reporting and support)... the big move in that direction was the git repository, which is awesome, and the licence shitstorm (jury still out ?)
Other obvious problem with the mentality is the DRAMA ! Oh my god, it's worse than the finalburn or Razoola fun back then. The tight moderation of the forum here probably discouraged some who don't have an alternative (remembering the Gridle era), and it's NOT always a good thing. The cliques and individual personalities of the "survivors" are only crystallizing more as time passes, centrifuging less-political people out.
Most of the hardcore here were already around when my obsession started, back in the late 90's... I'm 31 now which means I've spent the majority of my life following the "scene", but in 2014 I still see those outbursts of bullshit between (I guess) middle-aged men ! Passionate about their hobby I guess... but I miss some of the superstar devs, some of whom I'm sure would have contributed more if not for a slightly asphyxiating atmosphere around those parts.
That's my pointless rant for 2014; happy new year to all !
P.S : I missed more or less completely the Dr. Decapitator "era", and I understand he used his relative visibility (when working with byuu ?) to sell his operation and retire in the Caribbean; around the same time was this guy at zeptobars.ru demonstrating a similar process... has MAME a good lead for this, or is it :
- too good to be true (not many chips would actually benefit)
- great while it lasted (but too expensive / dangerous / impractical for rare parts)
- got what we want out of this particular technique ?
Thanks to everyone still in love with emulation ! Rock on !
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