On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 15:16, Brad Johnson wrote: > That really won't help anything... I imagine most of the people > who are asking these questions are probably already annoyed that these > games aren't in there by default, so giving them a smart-ass answer is > just going to frustrate them more.
and that personally just breaks my heart. :) seriously, if they're annoyed that they're not in there, then they're more concerned with pirating the latest games (jeez, I'm sounding like smf more and more) than they are with emulation in general. apparently you weren't around, or don't remember, when UltraHLE was released. The emulation "scene", while always having an undercurrent of piracy, went completely towards the piracy angle. IRC channels were flooded with lamers asking "n64 romz plz", and emulation in general got much more attention than it really wanted. kinda hard to make an argument that emulation is about preserving a piece of history when people are emulating games that are currently making money in the arcades. I honestly don't care if people get frustrated when nobody on the list answers their questions of how to play games that aren't included in mame. they'll just run nebula or something under WINE, and stop their complaining. or stay in windows. seeing people beg for roms or beg for support tends to make a person bitter. you start off answering questions, but after a while, your answers are trite, and sometimes no more than a "speak to the hand" gesture. you stop caring about the issue, and refuse to waste the half-life of a few brain cells spending time answering. I have the aforementioned roms, but I'm not in a real big hurry to keep xmame actively patched, as the games aren't really that good, and they'll stay nice and safe on my drive until mame supports them proper. > I'm not saying we should tell them exactly how to alter the > source code, or exactly where to get the roms and whatnot... just tell > them the actual reasons these games aren't supported by MAME, and tell > them that XMAME and this mailing list abide by the MAME dev's > decisions... therefor, we can't help them. yeah, and the clever ones will just glean what they can from the list, and then use what they've gained from places like cps2shock, etc. to work further, because they've seen that this list isn't really a good place to ask. if anything, I'd encourage people to hack around the source, as it's a damn good way to learn, and maybe in 3 years their patches could be included in the main tree. but yeah, pointing them towards any sort of policy (if one were written) would be the ideal solution. > I know it gets frustrating answering the same questions over > and over, but lets not get bitter and cynical here. man, you haven't ever worked at a call center, have you? :) _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
