> There always seems to be more going on in your head than reality. I've never talked > with ars technica or these youtubers, not sure who else you could be talking about > other than Scott as far as wanting their name on news.
Well I wouldn't rule it out, he did come here to post the story.
But yes, I often struggle to see why people get hyped over things that really aren't that interesting.
I also struggle to understand why I've got RB accusing me being responsible for these things getting coverage.
>My brother who lives across > the country and doesnt follow emulation texted me the link to the article. I laughed > my ass off. Just wrote "get ars technica to cuss" on my bucket list and immediately > crossed it off.
> Anyway you're dead wrong about it being the least interesting > whatever. What are you pissed off that it got added? Why the negativity.
Well even Vas has said it's not worth the hype. The roms were dumped from a piece of stolen property, with owner of said property coming up with some sob story about the roms being 'stolen' from them. That's pretty much your story in a nutshell.
Compared to a lot of what has been going on, the dumping of it is completely irrelevant on a technical level, and it's not even a game anybody is going to remember because it never made it to market.
Nice, it's preserved, great, but even in terms of rare things being preserved it only get attention because one person has spent years waving it in our faces. Plenty of other things that have been emulated are likely just as rare, if not rarer. It doesn't need tech site articles about it, streams about it etc. so that it's getting them seems entirely abnormal, that's my point here. It's been made into a story when there really isn't much of one, and on top of that, nobody has even named said repair tech so that others can avoid using them so it's not even a public service.
> You know > mamedevs never get the full credit that they deserve. Why after 20 years you're still > moping around about it is beyond me. >
Sometimes it's for the best, I mean while it would be nice if stuff like the G&W emulation got more coverage, maybe it's best it hasn't, considering Nintendo and all.
Maybe it's just annoying, because when things do get done that make a HUGE difference (such as the Taito C-Chip work) the majority of people seem to write it off as entirely unimportant to the point of refusing to upgrade MAME because a ROM changed, even if that ROM just happens to be the c-chip dump to make things actually work properly. In reality that c-chip work is a much more significant achievement and much more worthy of hype. Seems people only want to cover irrelevant clickbaity stuff tho?
In this case, the kind of coverage we see paints the project in a bad light by association. No coverage at all would have been better.
> The publicity sadly hasn't done any good, haven't gotten a single donation since the > announcement.
I wouldn't expect it to, if anything now the expectation will be that ROM dumping ninjas are going to dump all the games without it costing anybody a penny.
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