MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Robin - new Front End and Database

> If you think what mamedev sets as parent is the preferable set that shows how little
> you know.

I know you're not entirely happy about some of the choices, but posts like the OP here are one of the reasons most people are kinda happy to see it done, as you can legitimately put forward arguments that the parent sets aren't the best rather than allowing this poor opinion that 'all clones are disposable' to propagate to the point where everybody just deletes them. If we actively made the *best* version the parent, rather than following a simple set of rules, it would be a lot easier for people to just delete everything else.

There are many, many cases where the clones are more interesting / better versions.

It's an important fight to keep fighting, because there seem to be too many tools out there designed to whittle people down to '1 game / 1 rom' for both MAME stuff and stuff being used with other popular emulators. It's a worryingly destructive attitude.