MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Arcade games and Y2K non-compliance

This is just something stupid that I happened across and probably doesn't even deserve a post, but I thought it was interesting enough.

I was playing around in the setup of WWF: Wrestlemania (arcade version in MAME) and I noticed there as a RTC setting for date/time. Oddly, for a game that was released in 1995, the RTC isn't Y2K compliant.

I haven't checked the source, but I'm assuming MAME is pulling the current system time like it does for other systems that reference a RTC (e.g., STV seems to be Y2K compliant and displays correct date/time information), but the date/time in WWF: Wrestlemania is borked likely due to the overflow of the current date/time compared to what the system supports.

I just thought it was odd that a game released in 1995 has full support of the prior 95 years of it's non-existence (i.e., it displays a 4 digit year, although it may only be storing the last two digits) with only room for +5 years of operation before the RTC would no longer be functional.

I know that it likely wasn't a major concern as games' popularity drops significantly over time, but I don't think it would be a bad assumption that the game would still be in operation in many locations in the year 2000 in after.

It doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, but I just thought it was an interesting note.