> > 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.
I don't know much about that side of things, but I'm sure as long as they get dumped at some point they'll be emulated eventually too. As you note, cost (and maybe a lack of documentation if the cards would be needed to study, rather than just 'being dumped') is probably a major issue.
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