I don't know what happened, this is the only emulation site/community I visit but I am well aware of all the shit that has been going on forever with people using the work of others for their own personal profit. I don't think that is ever going to change sadly.
I've been following MAME since the beginning, not to get and have all the l33t fr33 g4m3z but because there were a handful of games from my childhood that if I could afford to own and had the space to keep them I would!
I have contributed to MAME in every way that I've ever been able, from buying multiple board sets and donating them for dumping to being a typing monkey to get the chips I donated converted and accepted.
I even dabbled in trying to learn to code enough to understand how MAME drivers worked and did actually manage to get a few drivers to show life, two all by myself and a couple others by updating old drivers written by someone that never submitted them. Not to mention just adding clones with alternate CHD images that I personally used chdman to dump.
One of those drivers was the LD game Cobra Command that can still be seen here:
I even had a geocities page that showed all the LD games that were in MAME at the time and a couple that weren't but were running under MAME with screenshots showing what signs of life they showed. From memory the games on that page were Euro Dragon's Lair and Space Ace, smf's Firefox driver before it was committed (Because I was talking to and trying to help him thru another DEV by providing captures of other LD games) and my Cobra Command driver. There may have been others but that was ages ago and I don't remember.
The reason that the Geocities page was dedicated to LD games in MAME was because one of the handful of games that I would own if I could is OBVIOUS and I was just trying to get more people interested in adding LD games.
Sadly at that time there was a HUGE controversy about what was considered an acceptable capture of a LD that it could be allowed in MAME. IMHO, this arrogance not only delayed the development of LD drivers in MAME but gave Laser Rot a decade to do it's thing before enough or the right people cared!
OK, to the point of this post, I don't know what it was that pissed you off but I want you to know that after all these years your "A Little Something Something" post was the best NEWS I've seen while visiting this site in years! I honestly thought (Well Fuck, I might actually see it in MAME before I die!)
And then you posted that and to me that just makes the April Fools joke all too real!!!
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