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"07-01-2017 AdvanceMAME v3.1. With SDL2 support and improved Raspberry Pi support."

I think you all miss this point. While i never liked Rpi, i must admit that now, where hardware is available for the Rpi that enables 15khz support for arcade-cabs and any CRT with a scart-connection, it all makes the difference. For 100-200$ you can have pixel-perfect, input-lag free arcade experience and with 200$ i mean the whole setup. As those people already own a CRT, it will get cheap as 60-150$.

While i understand nearly all points Haze mentioned here, i can only answer with, that noone cares for the newest mame and/or accurate emulation in those Retro, Rpi-scenes/guilds.

It seems you have no sense or feeling for those people. They have no interest in a MAME that contains 40k of roms, because the majority of them, will play only occasionally their all time favorites, which will be like a few hundred games and not thousands. 0.106 doesnt contain 40k of games, but it contains the most important games for those kind of people.

If you want to experience a similar experience with current MAME, you would need to spend a whole lot of buck$. Of course you could argue, that most of the people would have a modern pc at home, so you dont need to spend a lot, but then again you miss the feeling for the common retro-scene again. Any serious retro-gamer, will NOT play on a shitty LCD with a PC. Most of them will own original hardware-consoles and play on CRT, believe it or not. I am in so many groups and this is what i experience everytime. Someone who post a retro-game on a LCD will face a shitstorm and if that happens even on a 16:9 screen, it will be more harassed. Those people, if they are interested in MAME at all, want to play the arcade part, not the gambling machines, not obsolete computer systems etc. and they want that on a CRT, in best case with a cab.

Please notice this is not my opinion, i just want to show you some arguments, why Traso could be right with his statement

. After all these years arguing with you all, i gave up on the option that you might see what counts on a user-side. User interested developers (with talent) lost interest to official MAME, cause it lost this (user) focus. You might come up with LUA scripts and what not, but i dont expect anything soon (like many other people). While you keep up the aim and goal of MAME (accurate preserving etc.), there is nearly noone that makes a user-life easier. You may laugh at 0.106, but as this cheap hardware is getting more and more powerful, it wouldnt suprise me to see 0.162 (you know, the version where MAME didnt include MESS... note: i cant remember it well, which version it was) as a next step, probably next year. You underestimate the easiness of those Rpi or other distros. you put them on a stick and you are done. no config, no hassle etc. and you are straight into playing.

In the last years, i saw only minor effort in official MAME to accomplish the same and now you really wonder, why people choose such a distro like AdvanceMAME or similar distros? really?

You lived the mantra: Live and let die, instead of live and let live, which was the biggest mistake you maked in all these years.

Edited by uman (01/13/17 01:56 PM)