MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: HBMAME 0.235

> It's equal parts a test, and a reaction.
>
> First, it's a test to see if people can be cool like Fonzie.
>
> Second, it's a reaction to the fact that when Danger Express was first added due to a
> complete miscommunication, the guy who originally dumped Danger Express pretty much:
> - Flipped out
> - Attributed malice where there was none
> - Made a bunch of blustery threats about how he'd never post another prototype (not
> that, as far as I know, he'd posted any others) unless it was removed
> - Never posted any other prototypes regardless, despite the MAME team capitulating
> and removing it for all of these years.
>
> That's generally not how a two-way relationship works, where you say "I won't ever do
> X unless you do Y," then never do X anyway, because it makes the other party entirely
> rethink whether there's any value to having done Y in the first place. As an external
> contributor nowadays, I'm noticing a mentality shift across at least some of the
> developers, where they're tired of MAME and its team members being used as tools for
> collectors and bootleggers to play these little ego games. There's no shortage of
> collectors who mistakenly treat the preservation of history like some kind of power
> trip, and after so many decades of putting up with it, I suspect at least a few
> people are pretty much done capitulating.

This was one of my prototypes that I dumped with the explicit agreement with Aaron Giles for it to not be released. I even sent him some unknown IC's to make sure everything was done properly.

I wanted to release this on my time, wanted to make sure it could be emulated and preserved. That was the understanding and agreement.

I still have not given permissions to release it in MAME, nor any other branch. I do not want it out there.

However, Aaron didn't bother to contact me and must have just thought "enough time has passed" and released it.

Then it was taken out, but that wasn't good enough, apparently.

You're right, MAME will never be getting any more of my prototype collection (and there are a lot) because nobody even bothered to ask me if DE can be release.