> I would say yes indeed I know full well. > However since Time Traveler was recently included, perhaps others will trickle in > before or after the domesday project images come out. > At this point I’m happy the interest remains strong in persevering the classics.
Time Traveler was added in part because I happened to have a good block of time off from work. During that time, I was able to add a handful of options to one of the tools in the ld-decode toolchain (ld-chroma-decoder) so that it could export video that includes the VBI data within the video file itself, rather than spliced into a separate JSON file as it normally operates. Since it was a long weekend, it also wasn't too rough to eat the 8 hours or so to have my PC flipped over to its Ubuntu partition in order to run the ld-decode toolchain om the Time Traveler disc.
The main reason I haven't made much more forward movement on adding more LD games to MAME comes down to a combination of work chewing up most of my bandwidth, work-from-home meaning that I need to be booted into my Windows partition in order to use Remote Desktop as opposed to being booted into Ubuntu to run ld-decode, and working on some core API cleanup in MAME which has taken about a month to do.
On the bright side, it turns out that one of the team members associated with ld-decode - specifically, investigating using the toolchain for VHS decoding - maintains a separate set of Windows tools, so as soon as the core API cleanup thing is in the bag, I'm going to put Star Rider on my hit list.