WelshMegalodon wrote:
Even if it is, does that mean they have to go out of their way to implement it? Especially when RetroArch is already doing it and there are bound to be spinoff projects that add them?
I don't know how to answer this, because you sound like you read a completely different post but my post is what's being quoted for some reason.
Either way, small features like autofire are significantly easier to add than solving an accuracy problem, as I've already said. They do not "compete" with each other. There's a hardline stance against autofire going on here, partially through raising it as "competition" against accuracy, and there's no sense in that behavior.
MameHaze wrote:
"Attempt to do right by a community by not doing something that could be damaging" *get attacked for not doing it by parts of the community that don't care about the dmaage*
"Don't go out of our way to please a community but instead work on what we care about" *get attacked for doing what we want by the parts of the community that would rather something else had priority*
"Hand power to the community so they can create / maintain things for their own niche" *gets attacked for not treating it as 'first class citizen' by those that don't want the power but instead want the developers to do everything for them*
"Listen to one section of a community and implement what they ask for the way they ask for" *get attacked by the rest who didn't want it that way but some other way instead*
Do you really not see how loaded and dead-end all of these lines of thinking are? You're setting yourself up. This is exactly what I was talking about. You get so concerned about what one or two people think, then choose to act in ways that go against both what the majority wants
and what those one or two people want. This is spiteful. This is user-hostile. There is no other way to define this behavior.
Actual toxicity is that nonsense MJR posted. But you're now at the point where you'll equate being criticized for making bad decisions with
hate speech. At no point did BKR insult you, but you claimed he did and now want your account deleted. Sorry, but someone telling you that you're beyond help for stubbornly refusing something very simple with reasoning that doesn't make sense is not an "insult".
It really does amaze me, by the way, that people genuinely believe there is no room for criticism if something is free.
No, MAME has
not been consistent in
anything. One of the most long-standing issues about MAME, the thing that has traditionally scared people away from contributing, is how inconsistent both the project direction and the entire codebase routinely is. Things have gotten
somewhat better in the past few years, but not really to a point where what I said becomes untrue. This entire topic is an example of MAME being incredibly inconsistent with an implementation, and a MAME developer
defending that by saying "we're about to deprecate the whole thing" does
not make the situation better.
For the love of Christ, yes, MAME is about playing video games. Only recently have MAMEDEV tried to make it out to be anything else, and it has been argued countless times that what they want now really needs to be a separate project. That happened, once, before all of this mess! Guess what eventually happened to it? It got merged because the same few people were working on both and they wanted to come up with this narrative about MAME not being about video games anymore.
It's not really possible to "go make your own" arcade emulator anymore. MAME is too big and too all-encompassing, and it's scope was always too big for anyone to really copy so easily. Any new arcade emulator
depends on MAME to get anywhere. Because of that, you can't just handwave any criticism as so many are willing to do for some reason. I don't understand why so many people repeatedly accept and
repeat this "do you guys not have phones?" kind of rhetoric from MAMEDEV, over and over again, for years now, just because it's "free". Remember all that stuff I was saying about FOSS culture being so miserable? This is
exactly what I was talking about.