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Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X
11/03/10 03:01 PM


> > > list and tell me if there's every chip listed that are found on arcade PCBs etc.
> >
> > Yes, you refuse to share info about common flash rom types used on arcade games
> > (probably in a flashromref.txt you created) so I wanted you to at least copy paste
> > their names into a support list and do a check for me. It wouldn't take you 5
> > minutes. But then, neither would dumping some of the games on your backlog.
>
> it's too elitist for you to handle
> there's nothing secret in my reference files. just research on the net and then you
> will know everything about flashroms. I don't see why I should study for 10 years
> then hand all of that info to someone just because they are too lazy to do some
> simple research.


Not worth replying to...


> Take another extreme example... you email a professional PCB Repair business and ask
> them in minute detail how to repair a Daytona PCB that has lost all 3D graphics. I
> bet that you won't get any answer at all, or only a response containing multiple
> 4-letter expletives.....
> Or you have a problem with your car and take it to a mechanic. Instead of asking him
> to fix it you ask him to explain how to fix it because you're too cheap to pay him to
> do the work. Same response but with twice as many 4-letter expletives.
>
> However having said that I'm not totally unsupportive. I've answered many of your
> technical questions over the years and I'll answer simple specific questions as long
> as they are, errr, simple specific questions.


You're wasting other dumpers' time by not having the info public. You want everybody to recreate the wheel. Nobody sees any logic in it but you. It doesn't matter if you type up what to your twisted reality is an analogy. Nobody agrees with you.


> > emulation. Acquisition mistakes can easily be made because of a lazy dumping
> > schedule. Brave Firefighters was almost re-purchased a little while ago.
>
> There's nothing lazy about my dumping schedule and re-purchasing already-secured
> items would be your fault entirely. you already know I keep an up-to-date online list
> of wanted and purchased items. If you cant be bothered to check it occasionally
> that's your problem not mine.


Yeah and we all know how updated your dump status lists have been recently.


> > If more things were dumped, there might be more attempts to emulate it, like with
> Hikaru
> > certainly.
>
> as far as I know Hikaru is being worked on but there are major issues with protection
> or weirdness. AFAIK it's basically 2 NAOMI 2's bolted together so I guess the power
> of that system doesn't help either when current PCs can't run it fast enough to do
> development work easily.
>
>
> > Believe it or not, most people don't want to approach you to ask you to do
> > stuff. Because you sometimes respond like you do here.
>
> you're assuming a lot. when you assume you make an ASS out of U not ME.
> I'm pretty sure I never told any dev to piss off when asked to dump something (after
> all that's why I'm here in the first place). I've dealt with almost all of them at
> one time or another and I usually go out of my way to keep them happy.
> I tend to ignore non-dev types, whingers, a-holes, losers and time wasters etc.


You're a non-dev type. You're a dumper who wound up on the wrong mailing list and you've been fucking up their rep ever since by writing sentences like that.







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* DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 7X SmitdoggAdministrator 10/27/10 09:15 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X TheGuru  10/31/10 04:34 AM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X SmitdoggAdministrator  10/31/10 05:06 AM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X TheGuru  11/01/10 12:24 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X R. Belmont  11/02/10 09:56 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X jonwil  11/03/10 01:02 AM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X R. Belmont  11/03/10 05:47 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X Naoki  11/02/10 05:00 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X SmitdoggAdministrator  11/02/10 05:07 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X TheGuru  11/03/10 09:24 AM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X Naoki  11/02/10 05:20 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X SmitdoggAdministrator  11/02/10 05:23 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X Naoki  11/02/10 05:24 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X SmitdoggAdministrator  11/02/10 05:32 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X ranger_lennier  11/03/10 04:04 AM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X SmitdoggAdministrator  11/01/10 03:11 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X TheGuru  11/02/10 10:32 AM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X gamerfan  11/03/10 12:55 AM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X R. Belmont  11/02/10 10:02 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X Olivier Galibert  11/04/10 10:36 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X TheGuru  11/03/10 09:31 AM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X Naoki  11/03/10 01:58 AM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X Sune  11/03/10 05:48 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X SmitdoggAdministrator  11/02/10 04:07 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X TheGuru  11/03/10 09:57 AM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X SmitdoggAdministrator  11/03/10 03:01 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X TheGuru  11/03/10 04:24 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X SmitdoggAdministrator  11/03/10 04:26 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X rocko720  11/03/10 10:43 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X SmitdoggAdministrator  11/03/10 10:45 PM
. * Re: DU Donations Drive: 3+ /edited 3X Tingoes  11/03/10 11:59 AM

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