Cheers Dave! Thanks for your input, and please excuse any assumptions I may have made on your character. They weren't meant to be denigrating in any way.
As I recall (correctly or otherwise), I think we had corresponded back in 1998 or 1999, and I had sent you my Gradius 2 dump for you to take a look at and for possible inclusion into Sparcade. I may be wrong, though (again, my memory is knackered), but somehow I do recall sending you images that I had dumped of...something... I *did* dump that board at one time, but it may have been something else that I sent along. Then again, I could be completely mad...
I *do* know of the bloke you speak regarding the Gauntlet emulator, and my recollection of him was of contempt of anyone who wouldn't help him, as well as utter disregard of anyone who contacted him that he didn't "need." Over-inflated sense of self-worth? Youthful megalomania? Maybe. Some of that was flying around then; much of it, I think, to be the "first" to accomplish a specific emulation feat; but it's worth a chuckle to think of these days.
I look back fondly on those days, even if some events of that time were somewhat silly. I freely admit that I took part in some of it myself. The accomplishments in arcade emulation of the time more than overshadowed all of that nonsense, though. Fun and exciting times, they were...
"One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces!"- Nick Mason, Pink Floyd
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