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> finally, MAME and MESS are beginning to merge?

Of course not, no matter how much Tom Riddle wishes it.

The recent cases of merging from MESS is due to a more permissive stance by MAME to permit some "coin-operated console" cabinets, as well as some cases where the hardware did actually exist in arcades. Merging the source files for the 3DO driver for example will make it easier to make sure the code is shared and that improvements in emulation on the MESS side will improve MAME, a circumstance that in the past has been ignored.

But - that is all. No one is going to add, say, Apple Lisa emulation from MESS to MAME, unless it's proven to have been used in an arcade.

All that said, we're trying to ignore completely merging features of drivers. If some feature is only found in the console version of the hardware, the current plan is that it will be kept to the MESS side - but features that are shared by both will be shared between emulators.

Or something like that - the overall planning has been slightly rushed, so there may be a little going back and forth on things as things get decided.

> what about 3DO (NTSC) and 3DO (PAL) systems being added?

3DO for example: Orbatak (prototype) is 3DO hardware, as well as Beavis & Butthead (prototype). We are currently guessing that they use the standard 3DO (NTSC) BIOS, but no one knows which revision (or possibly a custom BIOS? yet. One or more will likely be removed from the driver at some point, it's still early days.

- Stiletto