> It's a game from 2002, there are games newer than that in MAME already. Seeing as the > game is 9 years old, it's unlikely to hurt sales of it at this point. > > EDIT-Ignoring the fact that even if it worked fully in MAME as soon as it's dumped, > it would be slow as hell considering its a 1GHz pentium3 with a geforce2.
There's a 3 year rule from the year shown on the title screen. There is nothing in MAME newer than 3 years before 2011. If it doesn't make money in 3 years it's probably a dog and it won't make any more money regardless of whether it's in MAME or not.