> [serious rant]
>
> That is the most stupid thing I have ever seen you type. How many people do you think
> are interested in the project after playing it on a console or portable device?
>
> I know of 10 people who have played CoinOPS who ask me if I have the latest Mame
> updates on my PC. All interested in this site and Mame as a whole.
>
> It baffles me why that certain individuals are so toxic to the thought of
> distribution to other platforms. I can understand the distribution of code and roms
> argument, but thinking that it stifles participation is so ridiculous.
>
> [/serious rant]
>
> If all you code porters need a pat on the back for letting the compiler tell you what
> piece needs replacing, fine, but I can't in good conscience award you a merit badge.
>
>
> Tell that to the guys that ported Mame to Chrome. That is a good one. I'm sure they
> had a fit of giggles over that that gag.
If they really wanted to do some actual work, they'd try PORTING NEWER VERSIONS OF MAME TO THEIR DEVICES. But they don't. They're content with working on ancient codebases.
They can port whatever they want to their toaster. I could give a damn. My problem is, they don't advance MAME development at all because they don't want to move to a better, less buggy, more feature-filled version.
I'm not a coder. Oh I can do some very simple stuff, but I have no real skill. But I know what MAMEDevs have been doing for years, I've seen them struggle against all sorts of protection and wacky programming by arcade devs, and I know they're doing their best.
These guys just remind me of the kind of people that whine that their NeoGeo romsets stopped working on newer versions of MAME, so they stuck to an older one just so they wouldn't have to update.
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