> Anything an arcade would give mame would make it no longer an exclusive game you can
> only play there so that is seen as less money and they exist mainly for profit.
> Warehouses are worse. If you don't get right into business and make offers they want
> you out of the building immediately. The idea of them doing some charity work for
> mame is humor. They are basically the exact opposite.
Keep in mind that an awful lot of the Taito prototypes in MAME came from an arcade warehouse raid a few years ago, although in that case we were lucky, and it was emulation friendly hands.
I don't think they actually managed to secure / process everything from that site even back then tho before it was all taken away.
In this case I've seen nothing from the guys posting on emulation forums, so even if it's a lost stash of prototypes like that one over here was, we're unlikely to see them.
But yeah, it mostly depends on who secures it and if they see $$ signs, or want to contribute, processing that many PCBs is a lot of work.
It's unfortunate that a lot of the time the best of these finds just seem to end up in the hands of people who only want to make a profit; the number of boards that have gone through the hands of people like Bill Burger, where a simple dump of the chips would have saved countless titles is rather sad, even if it's wasjust from 'junk' PCBs for non-video stuff, it would have been useful, instead it's all split up, ends up who knows where, possibly just trashed in some cases.
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