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> EDIT: your comments on reddit have not gone unnoticed. Must be that time of the
> month.

My comments on reddit are accurate, as you keep proving.

Don't do stupid stuff and I won't use it as an example of stupid stuff.. I've had people harassing me about 'missing MESS 0.208 ROMs' that aren't even in 0.208, or shouldn't be, saying they got the builds from you. Either they're lying, or you didn't compile from the actual 0.208 sources again.

You shipped broken MAMEUI builds for many, many months due to inexplicably having an ancient 68k core in there. That shouldn't even have been possible.

It's not that time of month, it's just that you constantly do stupid stuff that ends up coming back to us, so yes, I'll use it as an example, because it was a good example of what happens if you start silently mixing and matching parts of MAME code (which is what the person posting seemed to think would be a good idea). You are notoriously unreliable because of things like that, it is not an inaccurate statement. RetroArch / LibRetro etc. is also notoriously unreliable and the source of many other issues.

The statement is made based on support requests, where the finger so often ends up pointed at RA or MAMEUI as the source of issues that simply don't exist in proper builds, and are often the direct result of the maintainers of those projects doing really stupid things or being careless. If you want to take it as an attack, that's up to you, but it's an important thing to convey to users who tend to just assume that things are going to be the same, and that in both cases it's just a frontend slapped on.

I mean MAMEUI is nowhere near as bad, or invasive as RA, which is truly ghastly, but there are issues associated with some of the changes / build process that nobody is going to expect / shouldn't be happening.