> > you seem to be pushing for with every single one of your posts.
> You have the wrong idea about what you're emulating, they're games, not just piles of
> components and code.
except to the people you're talking to, their job is to treat them as piles of components and code and be entirely indiscriminate in doing that.
at best we help construct an evidence based narrative to show their roles in history, and how various IPs were licensed, how hardware used by different developers evolved official and unofficial influences of what was produced etc. it's a technical project, documenting history.
that is our role, that is what mamedev does best, and has done best for 20 years.
stop trying to change our role to what you want our role to be
again, this is just trying to bully us into doing something that doesn't match our skills, something that is a job for somebody else.
this is not some user hating thing, this is simple logic, simple development roles etc.
you're talking to the wrong people.
if you want people to fill a different role, find the correct people for that.
also maybe be glad that some of us take up this role, i've probably spent over a £700 of my money this year on random plug+play units that really nobody is ever going to want to play, purely because I can view them as piles of components and code that have a place in a historical document that tells a story. without people willing to do that, for things that would otherwise be deemed junk, we'd be a lot worse off even if nobody plays them in the next 20 years they're emulated (if they get emulated)
likewise, look at the recent dumping union posts, that print club stuff etc. certainly isn't about the games, those things at this point are nothing but a curiosity, but there's enough interest to get them picked up, dumped, and in MAME (and enough interest that we're investing in hardware to break the weird protections some of them have)
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