MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Mame 241 shader questions

> Well, there you go.
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> The somewhat petty mindset of your average Mame Dev for all to see.

You really don’t get it, do you? There are an endless list of things in MAME that could be improved – my TODO list is always going to be way too long, so I need to prioritise. It generally feels better to work on stuff that people actually appreciate.

I’ve already made a lot of improvements to MAME’s user experience, whether you’ve noticed or not. Examples include all the stuff with input configuration UI, not losing input config when your controllers are unplugged, not losing input config when you switch out a slot card, lots of fixes to annoyances with the menus, making the system and software selection menus more responsive, the ongoing work of supporting localisation, and so on.

Now some features are obviously appreciated by certain segments of the community. I got a very positive response from the Chinese emulation community for localised built-in input and view names, localised system names, and the input macro plugin. The Japanese community seemed to appreciate localised system names, too. The TAS and bot community seem to be reasonably happy with the direction the Lua scripting API is taking. Some of recent additions and changes to Lua scripting allow faster turnaround for driver development. Changes to machine configuration syntax took a while to get to the point where it is now, and it took some people a while to adapt, but no-one would want to go back now.

However, for whatever reason, certain features seem to attract the attention of the most entitled, ungrateful, obnoxious users. Video post-processing is one of them. In my experience, even if you do exactly what these kinds of people say they want, they never show any appreciation. They just start whining obnoxiously about something else. It’s better for my mental health to work on things that people appreciate than to take on the impossible task of trying to make obnoxious whiners like you happy.