> > RetroArch is an absolute piece of shit, and there are so many other reasons to not
> be
> > using it.
>
> Indeed.
>
> > If it's growing in popularity it's only because people are stupid / lazy /
>
> No because they very legitimately want features like CRT shaders they actualy
> understand how to control, and very legitimately don't want to play with unwanted
> additional frames of delay.
>
> > Unfortunately competing with that lack of morals is tricky.
>
> No you just have to acknowledge people aren't stupid and that it's very moral to want
> to experience the games closer to what they remember, how they looked and felt, it's
> only natural, and that's a desire for preservation too.
> You also have to aknowledge that they weren't fed with coding, editing, hardware and
> programming knowledge all their lives like you, MAME's only been growing in
> complexity for users and the more it does the more users it loses.
> Get such features in MAME, make it more users friendly - you'd do that infinitely
> better than RetroArch no doubt about it - and you'll obsolete RA and win back the
> love.
>
> > Single worst thing to happen in the 20 years I've been involved in emulation.
>
> Yes, that, and MAME's tunnel vision, refusal to see reality is a close second.
Problem is it's tip of the iceberg.
Yes, there are BGFX problems which mean BGFX can't be the primary video output (and why D3D is still around as we're not that stupid as to remove it while that is still a problem)
However, even if we get down to the minimum possible lag they undermine it with gross hacks to take it lower than it was ever even meant to be.
Even if we do perfect rendering, they push cores that hack things to higher resolutions, widescreen etc.
Even if we try to offer proper audio/video sync so that the emulation is reliable, they hack refresh rates, breaking it, without even caring because the edge cases are less common than the popular games.
Even if we improve the emulation, they keep offering older cores, keep bad romsets in circulation etc. resulting in more and more people running bad old emulation because they keep sharing those sets and cores. It kills progress by keeping zombie cores and emulators alive.
Even now we've changed our license to allow commercial use, products keep using them and bypassing non-commercial licenses because RA has a core downloader that will happily do that, regardless of if it's being used in a commercial product or not, undermining both the relicensing work and the will of the non-commercial projects too.
We could do everything perfectly (and in many areas MAME is still VASTLY superior) and they undermine the good work in the scene with dirty tactics that are impossible to compete against due to smooth PR, buzzwords, and appealing to the lowest common denominator. The thing is a cancer.
Trying to suggest that small changes would make a difference at this point I still think is naive because MAME is competing with something that is morally bankrupt.
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