The ROM image for Akka Arrh, an extremely rare Atari arcade prototype was dumped and added to MAME recently, but now there are allegations that the ROM was stolen from a collector's machine
While everything doesn't need to be in MAME per se, I can't see a good reason for keeping it from the general public. Are the collectors afraid that if the public has the ROMs for these rare games...
And just because a game isn't available to the emulating public doesn't mean an individual owner isn't protecting it for history. As Evans himself put it in a 2009 forum post, "everything does not need to be in MAME for it to be 'preserved.'"
While everything doesn't need to be in MAME per se, I can't see a good reason for keeping it from the general public. Are the collectors afraid that if the public has the ROMs for these rare games that it devalues their own personal collection in terms of price and desirability?
I think that mindset is similar to people who are totally for a thing in principle, but viemently against this one application. (Affirmative Action, Welfare Distribution, Lady Ghostbusters, pick...
I think that mindset is similar to people who are totally for a thing in principle, but viemently against this one application. (Affirmative Action, Welfare Distribution, Lady Ghostbusters, pick your politics.) They have this thing, and if other people have the thing now, they lose the exclusivity. They still have the thing, but they feel stolen from because they have to share ownership.
Yes, that is what I understand some of these people think. I am extremely against that line of thinking. EEPROMs degrade over time, and I think preservation is much more important than the...
Yes, that is what I understand some of these people think.
I am extremely against that line of thinking. EEPROMs degrade over time, and I think preservation is much more important than the effectively imaginary difference in value the collector might experience.
While everything doesn't need to be in MAME per se, I can't see a good reason for keeping it from the general public. Are the collectors afraid that if the public has the ROMs for these rare games that it devalues their own personal collection in terms of price and desirability?
I think that mindset is similar to people who are totally for a thing in principle, but viemently against this one application. (Affirmative Action, Welfare Distribution, Lady Ghostbusters, pick your politics.) They have this thing, and if other people have the thing now, they lose the exclusivity. They still have the thing, but they feel stolen from because they have to share ownership.
Yes, that is what I understand some of these people think.
I am extremely against that line of thinking. EEPROMs degrade over time, and I think preservation is much more important than the effectively imaginary difference in value the collector might experience.