MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: New games in Mame

> > What I'm saying is that I don't understand why you care that it hasn't been pulled
> out of MAME
>
> I don't want to pull out from MAME but I only want explicit (not silent) declaration
> from Aaron as official.
> Perhaps you can't understand, one reason is my poor English so that I will be unable
> to tell what I communicate. So I don't want you to recognize my will. But only keep a
> fool in your mind.

If you have a question for Aaron then e-mail him, we don't need a public outburst every time that game is brought up.

> > It's just a guideline. Before there was the 3 year rule, there was the 2 year rule,
> and before that, there wasn't a year rule
>
> Sorry, I can't find any message in the guidline. And what is problem in this case if
> you say 'not year rule'?

Just some history of the year rule(s) and saying it's a rough guideline. There's no law where someone is going to get 50 lashes if they put in a 2 year old bootleg.

> > none of them are or were perfect and self-imposed rules aren't something for users
> to try and police.
>
> So you say, 'MAME doesn't have rule and morality'? So it's OK to be selfish actually?
> ...I confused.

Nope, not saying that. I'm saying end users have no bearing on loose rules that mamedevs create for themselves. Whatever you think about the matter doesn't make any difference to them aside from having to put up with you bitching on public message boards about them. That's the extent of it.

> > I aim to get games for dumping that are at least 7 years old but it doesn't always
> work out that way and if I get a game some time that is only 3 or 4 years old I
> expect not to get bitched out for it by MAME users.
>
> It's your self-policy but some dumper/ripper try to dump/rip and even attemp to send
> 'working' driver to official (and already some clone MAME have done).
> I know some user says 'when does (official) MAME add fz2dx?' and it works now on MAME
> though it is a bootleg.
> As it is now like so, I doubt MAME's rule and thinking.

Just keep doubting it then. It doesn't make any difference. You could e-mail Aaron like I mentioned before but I really don't think he owes people explanations for every decision he makes.