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Re: MAME Opinions
10/29/20 09:10 PM
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> THIS IS MY OPINION, Please do not take it personally:
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> I am also an old MAME user and have used it since its beginning back in 1997. And I
> agree with some of the arguments above from Tafoid. For me, what is preventing MAME
> from being the most popular emulator today is the great effort of developers on
> extremely obscure computers and gambling/fruit machines (which let's be honest,
> almost nobody cares anymore). Though, I understand this as being the preservation
> side of things, which is the focus of the project since its creation. Unfortunately,
> preserving these obscure systems is not of the interest of the majority who uses MAME
> nowadays, so these users think about it as a "big waste of time".
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> Putting much less or no effort at all on an Android port (which is a huge O.S.
> nowadays and cannot be ignored anymore) and also in numerous arcade drivers/consoles
> that still have bugs to work on or protections to be unveiled is not good at all and
> won't help the situation to get any better. On the other hand, recent netlist
> improvements and growing decapping projects are very positive movements!
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> I am not saying that this is an easy thing, in fact perhaps the migration of most of
> the developers to emulate old obscure computers and peripherals is a movement of the
> type "we can no longer unveil these protections for the arcade game" X "or" Y "or "We
> no longer have the means to advance in this arcade driver or that for sheer lack of
> documentation or without decapping protected MCUs."
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> And so, most users (players) who want an update in the drivers of their favorite
> games/systems (being these arcade or console), simply will stop following MAME
> development up close and will keep moving on to other alternatives that do these
> updates more frequently. For the most part, I understand that emulator users nowadays
> only want to PLAY games, they do not care that much about preservation of old obscure
> things they never knew existed to begin with.
MAME has become less popular mainly due to people moving from powerful PCs to weak mobile hardware which struggles to run 16-bit games unless they use modified emulators from nearly 20 years ago. Not helped by RetroArch and mame4all etc. pushing that shit to begin with.
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