MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Sadness in the front end world....

> What I said is perfectly relevant, there are games on all the platforms that are
> perfectly suited to cab use, MAME includes a decent amount of scripting that would
> make them easier to use.

First, it is my mistake that i wrote 2nd gen. consoles, but i meant that generation, where shoulderbuttons and analogsticks became common, whatever gen. it is. Secondly, while they may perfectly suit in a cab, they still make not much fun, to play them in a cab (at least not in a upright). I play them from a couch, like the majority do. Thirdly, if there is a decent amount of scripting, it was left pretty much undocumented or at least with not much attention to it from a normal user POV. I wouldnt know how to use them, but i will look into it and if that case is true.

> Heck these days you could probably write a lua coin management script and wrap it
> around the games, automatically pressing any buttons to start games etc. (much like
> the TourVision bios does in hardware)

This has not be done (yet) and until then, in no way valid for the topic. "what if...", "you could probably write..." is future music and i will use, what currently works for me.

> > No they wont and me neither, but i use UIFX through GameEx. UIFX is way
> faster/easier
> > for organizing the setup, keeping updated than any official MAME probably will ever
> > be, as it dont need to go through trillions lists, making me watch a whole simpson
> > episode incl. advertising, until i can move the joystick again and back to gaming.
> >

> You do know one of the things the team is hated the most for is the video rewrite
> done after 0.106? because it means that low-res fullscreen, exact resolution modes
> are much more difficult to use?

> Now I'm not saying keeping cab users happy is a good reason to have the internal GUI
> (being cross platform, and automatically ported without any need for OS specific GUI
> code is a better one) but it again shows that you're really only looking at your own
> closed little world rather than one that has benefits to everybody.

And? Whats the point again? I never said "dont use official MAME" or stop writing code for it. Dont prevaricate, what has been written here, dont pigeonhole me into something that i never intended to be.

> You're still trying to insist that MAME be designed around your personal interests,
> it's not going to be, ever, because your interests are selfish, the project is about
> more than you. Your education towards attitude tells me all I need to know tho.

No, no and no. The only one who is insisting (and insulting) here is currently you. I just explained some scenarios and cases, why i am in need for frontends, which treats special cases, that are very common in the community and why i like to use this or that in that case. I dont need a official MAME that is *designed* around my personal interests, but why i shouldnt cherish a derivative that does it?

If such a demand wouldnt be true, this topic wouldnt exist and many others too, but no one here said that official MAME has to be done that way. You all close your eyes and live for the project (which is ok), but look how personal it gets again and again. I didnt put me into the center of anything or didnt blame the project itself. You simply dont or wont see, that all i wrote is not against the MAME project. You dont even know me personally, why you are saying that my interests are selfish? This just make me sad, as it is absolutely not true, nothing else.