> The reality is MAME thrives off these things as they set it apart from everything
> else. It's genuine preservation work, the saving of our history, work others aren't
> bothering to do. MAME's stance on these things makes MAME a safe place for people to
> contribute, knowing what they're doing, even for 'unpopular' material will be safe
> for generations.
I hope and wish that this will be true for the future.
Especially, if we take the music/synths stuff in MAME for example.
I once asked the devs in the past, if there will be any chances to see ROM/RAM and PCM Waveform cards dumped for synthesizers that use them (like Korg Wavestation, Roland JD-JV series etc.), once those systems will get emulated.
Short answer was, it will unlikely happen, which is sad.
Even now these cards are rare and cost a fortune and in some near future they will cost the equivalent to their hardware synthesizers. The only reason why those cards are not copied/dumped, is because musicians have no clue how to do this. I would gladly even spend money in a project that could establish this, in a reasonable manner.
I really like any improvement or new added music hardware, but i dont understand why you would not do these cards. This would really add value to MAME, as none professional emulation of these synthesizers, has support for these cards. I know only the Korg Legacy Collection, that have such a feature, but only for the cards from Korg itself.
So why only emulating something, that is already emulated by other parties, if you could do it better, just by having those cards?
Especially the PCM Wavecards add great value to those synthesizers, because you have not only sounds (that you could probably create on your own), you have NEW waveforms that enable new possibilities you would not have otherwise.
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