> > > > > Will MESS and MAME be merging soon? > > > > > > > > Let's hope that will never happen ! > > > > > > WHY NOT??? > > >... > > Creating a mastodon of a project/program would lead to a dilution of it. I hope > that > > in the near future MAME team will realize how wrong is adding mechanical games to > > MAME and will make decision to remove that ballast from emulator. > > > > I am taking the opportunity to thank Kale for all His work in leading the project > and > > all my best to Miodrag Milanovic for taking the torch. (hot one, I suppose) > > While I can agree with that on paper... in real life it doesn't make much sense. MAME > and MESS are essentially the same program at this point, they share so much code it > isn't even funny. And this is a GOOD thing. There isn't any point in inventing the > wheel twice and many arcade systems are offshoots of consoles and vice versa. The > only thing the seperate compiles does is make it easier for the end user to manage > their romz. That isn't a bad thing, but let's not kid ourselves, that is the only > benefit. > > I also think that adding the mechanical games into mame was a very smart decision. > How long has age mame been around? How long has it been stalled? Addding it to mame > does two things.... it gets those ancient games back in the public eye and it > preserves them by putting them in an active project. > > I honestly don't know why everybody and their brother complains about them really. > Their is a very blatent "ismechanical" flag in mame's listxml that any front-end or > any rommanger wroth two cents can use to filter them out.
These people complain because they put their personal interest over everybody else`s interest. These people complain because they see them selves as the center of the world, they can`t see beyond their own navels. They complain because they are spoiled babes. I believe that they think to them selves: -I don`t like these games, so obviously nobody else likes it.
People, get over it! Grow up! You don`t need to have all the games, store just the ones that you play.
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