MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: MAME Opinions

As one of the old timers too, here since the first release, still remember about the excitement when the first win version of mame came out.

I do greatly appreciate all the hard work that has been put into mame and all the hours that these guys have taken out of their lives to allow us the ability to enjoy mame.

But as an old timer to me mame has become bloat ware, mean no disrespect just voicing my opinion, Mame drew people because of the gaming side not because it emulated a ATM machine. Lets go back at look at when it started to decline, shortly after mess and merging then all the added electronic hardware. The number of downloads, the number of posts etc, this was easy to see as when people brought up their opinions of all this added electronics on the boards they were quickly torn down by some of the mame devs for their opinions and many just gave up or left.

It became like a super hero movie where instead of 1 or 2 super heros to keep you interested in the movie the studio adds 20 then 30 then 40 super heros to the movie to try to draw in all these different fans of different heros but end up losing that audiance because too much going on at one time to keep each fan interested in their hero.

If mame wants to add all this stuff and thats all the mame devs wish to work on thats their choice and I support them but they cant be surprised that they end up losing people along the way that have no interest in atm machines, apple floppy drives etc.

Honestly mame should have stayed the original course and let another emulator do the floppies, etc. I seen no laws stated that forbid dev members from either starting new or working on other emulators outside of mame.

In reality I hate seeing this, Many times if it weren't for gregf (bless his heart) there wouldn't be anything posted for a long time. Because I remember when to many people mameworld was the place to hang out and the numerous posts...

Like I stated I really do appreciate all the hard work and devotion many have put into mame. I've got to relive many memories thru the years thru mame and I spent endless hours on this web site and many other mame sites.

And no its not nor has it ever been only about playing free games because as I've stated in other posts I havent downloaded mame in over 15 months until this last week but I did and still do swing by atleast 4 to 5 times a week just to see if by any chance this place is livening up. Because I miss the posts, the help, the friends that used to basically live here.

Only here to annoy...