> > > Back in the day, running with -nosound caused MAME to specifically exclude > certain > > > driver hardware when running the game. More recently, the decision was made for > > MAME > > > to always emulate the sound hardware - mostly to reduce bug reports from people > > > running with -nosound. > > > > Anyone know when this was? > > The whatsnew.txt shows it officially happened in MAME 0.102, not exactly recently, > but the idea of disabling cpu cores and not loading sound roms never was a great > idea.
yeah disabling emulation of the actual hardware was probably one of the worst ideas we ever had, caused so many little issues that nobody ever quite fully kept track of.
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