MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Marble madness 2 wip haze

> Nobody has a "right" to any of this. It's just emulator pokerom entitlement, over and
> over again. The "hoarded" ROMs are safe, in multiple hands.

Dude, I used to believe your talk, but twenty years of this crap has changed my opinion. This stuff is only “safe” in the sense of “safe” from ever being seen by people outside your clique. You’re going to take it to the grave with you, and what good will it do anyone then?

You guys talk like you’re doing the world a service by showing stuff at California Extreme. Sure, one can travel to a country that officially has a policy that rights don’t exist at the border, with an absurdly high homicide and violent crime rate (especially school shootings), an almost unbelievable incarceration rate, where murder-by-police (“SWATing”) is a thing, where getting cancer basically bankrupts you, where whites-only “sundown towns” were apparently legal within living memory, to see a video game that didn’t pass location test. I’ve already had to spend time in the US for business – not going to do that again if I can avoid it.

I don’t care about having these ROMs. I don’t have a copy of the Marble Madness II ROMs, or the Akka Arrh ROMs, and I feel no compulsion to seek them out. I’ve just had enough of the decades of the smug crap from the US hoarders who take pleasure from rubbing the fact that they have these games and no-one else does in everyone’s face. I’m sick of you guys saying things are “safe” when they’re only safe from ever being seen. I’m sick of the way these people think they somehow “own” the actual IP and have a right to control access just because they came upon the games somehow. There are two particularly poignant cases of this: Scott Evans was clearly mad that Akka Arrh could see a widespread commercial release (on a mini arcade cabinet) after the actual rights holders got hold of the ROMs, as he could no longer control access to it; and Scott Swazey somehow thinks making bootleg Marble Madness II conversions is legitimate just because he got the ROMs somehow.

You’ll go out of your way to make custom MAME builds for these guys. You continue to push the fallacy that this stuff is “safe”. You’ve thrown your lot in with these guys. You can’t complain when you’re tarred with the same brush.

I don’t have a “hate boner” for you. I’m just not prepared to fawn over you.