MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: HBMAME 0.235

> >
> > Wow. I'm the bad guy now? I didn't "disappear" to anywhere. Piss and moan? That's
> how
> > you see this? Everyone (literally, 2 people) were involved, Me and Aaron Giles.
> There
> > is no excuse for this to have been leaked.
> >
>
> Yes, you are the bad guy.
>
> You're acting like you own the exclusive rights to a game you've ended up with a
> board of.
>
> I've been doing commercial emulation work for people for a good few years now, and
> you know one of the absolute worse things? When people like you hold boards for
> ransom, even at times keeping them away from the true rights holders.
>
> There have been a number of releases people I've worked with would have liked to
> make, and could even acquire proper licenses for, but situations like this cropped
> up, where the one person known to have a board wouldn't cooperate, or wanted an
> extortionate amount of money for what, if we're honest, is providing access back to
> what was stolen property from back in the day. I could even point out how one such
> game that leaked against the will of somebody like you, and for which they kicked off
> because they no longer had exclusive access to it, is now an officially licensed part
> of many Atari compilations.
>
> There are even a couple of NeoGeo prototypes that companies contacting me have had
> permission to reissue on compilations, but the only known cart owners have asked
> house prices for access to the ROM so nothing has happened. The same cart owners who,
> in public claim they can't possibly share what they have due to copyright concerns.
>
> Even for this game, as it happens, you're not the only one to have the board / or
> have dumped it. Somebody else dumped it, but their program ROMs had bitrot and the
> PCB would not boot. Thankfully Aaron had previously uploaded your dump, so it was
> possible to supply them with the fixed ROMs. They requested anonymity to avoid the
> kind of shitstorm people such as yourself would kick up, but were likely going to
> share their dump at some time in the near future anyway.
>
> Almost nothing is a "one-off" People were dumpster diving even back in the day,
> unwanted PCBs that were sent off for recycling often were not. Nothing you have is
> THAT special, it's just a case of how long you're going to keep inconveniencing
> others for. While I will respect the wishes of people who wish to play this silly
> little game myself, it is nothing but that. (and if I were to get hit by a bus
> tomorrow, anything I am honouring such wishes over would probably just end up
> everywhere as it ends up entirely out of my control - unfortunately this probably
> means quite a few people would now like to see me hit by a bus)
>
> The project has matured in many ways over the years, but sadly for some people
> outside of that it's still all about them, rather than the greater cause of ensuring
> we carry forward what we can for the good of all.

Hear, hear!