As others have said, for me it would be the Laserdisc stuff.
MAME has done nothing visible of note in the field for a long time (even if lots of progress has been made outside of MAME) and meanwhile the industry continues to wash away memories of how the original versions of these games were by pushing out newer, updated, higher resolution versions of them year after year.
The originals, at this point, are vintage material, vastly different from what you see today, and need to be properly represented somewhere.
Not to mention the number of other systems that used Laserdiscs, such as the LaserActive, where I believe there was even code stored on them to tie the games together.
I'd like to see the same for VHS tapes, there were a number of VHS based systems, be they arcade Mahjong titles, or 'gun games' for TV that are simply degrading without a solution.
On a personal note, I hope Sean's work schedule eases up a little as his contributions are vital, but if it doesn't it doesn't, he's got to make a living for himself at the end of the day. When it does however he has many interesting curiosities we've been stockpiling over the year.
As for my work, I'd like to help get on top of the bigger picture for a lot of these hated TV games, obscure knock-off handhelds and such, there's a wealth of stuff that's simply been forgotten, never documented, or exists in ancient YouTube videos only. I've got Team Europe and Peter and ClawGrip to help with this, amongst others, but truth be told we could *really* do with a decent boost of funds in order to pick things up - a lot of recent progress has come out of our own pockets and that isn't sustainable. I feel bad for asking tho, because we know they're all kinda rubbish.
Would be nice to fill in some gaps in the eKara and Popira libraries too, but that requires working with ShouTime and also requires Sean to have time, plus we usually have to by those in bulk, which means we get a lot of duplicates and high shipping costs.
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