> How exactly are they supposed to accomplish that when everything is always changing
> and a WIP?
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> The Team is already doing the most difficult tasks by constantly improving, so the
> least you could do is run a game or use a driver to form that opinion on your own.
>
> Also, the information screens are there for a reason at startup.
I'm not sure if you read my post at all, I'm in no way criticizing the work that is being done. One of the specific things I said is that the startup information windows are not always there for some drivers that are not working 99% correct, opposed to MAME, where if I don't see an information screen claiming the game doesn't work I know for sure it works. Even many "imperfect" games work perfectly well for the end user, and the imperfections are sometimes technical issues not evident to the end user.
You take my post as an attack and it's far from it, I've tested things on my own and I have an opinion, and my opinion is the one I expressed. A "working" driver doesn't mean all software/games within it are working properly, so testing a few SNES games won't tell me what's the driver status. MAME has more granularity in this respect, since "working" and "non working" status is listed per game, not per driver.
It would be nice to know which systems are expected to run 99% correct, so I trust to use MESS for all emulation for a given system without having to test each and every game. Maybe at the moment there are no such systems and if this is the case, all drivers should be marked at least as imperfect IMHO.
Lastly, I think it would greatly benefit MESS to have at least one such "perfect" system, and promote that, so that it's usage starts to get traction. By perfect system I mean perfect for the majority of users, like all working status games in MAME, they are generally perfect for any practical purposes.
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