> > I was just scavenging my hard disk for old emulation stuff and found a folder named > > "forbidden" under MAME. It contained executables from versions 0.36 beta 10 to 0.36 > > beta 16. Now I seem to remember these versions being pulled off for some reason but > > can't figure out for the life of me what is was. Don't know if it was because some > > Neo-Geo games or perhaps source code used without permission. Can anyone shed a > light > > on this? I got curious about now. > > All of those releases are posted on mamedev.org (source and binaries). So they're not > forbidden by any obvious definition of that term. Maybe your parents wouldn't let you > play MAME at that time? ;-)
They were "forbidden" and not on the website for a time supposedly because of pong. They were re-added at some later date.