ESPgaulda to be emulated any time soon??...

zlk · Post by **zlk** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:46 pm

From what I have heard, it was Akira that requested the driver to be removed.

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 3:20 am

nZero wrote:
rtw wrote:Cave asked MAME to remove the DDP3 skeleton driver.
I thought the requester was Arika?

Arika did also object to Fighting Layer's appearance in MAME ages ago, but it's back in there. I guess enough time has passed. So, we'll probably see TGM 2 and the DOJ driver return in the long run- with the latter being in a more complete state than it was.

moonblood · Post by **moonblood** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:24 am

I wish cave would just say 'go ahead' to the mame team about ketsui, at least

they could sell the rom on impossible-to-crack cds, many people would buy it, and they'd make lots of money

ah.. dreams

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:53 pm

rtw wrote:
Cave asks MAME to remove games that are too new. Now if Cave was totally against emulation why do we have Donpachi, Guwange etc. in MAME ?

So why aren´t they completely against emulation? I am just wondering - if they can request to remove certain games out of the list, why don´t they do this with all of their games? I don´t think they would care if the MAME-using players moaned about that.

zaphod · Post by **zaphod** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 6:08 am

the MAME project is about preservation, not infringing on copyrights.

It deliberately leaves out games tat are not in need of presevation yet (too new). This isusually because the game is still in production, still readily available in arcades, or still being actively used by the company.
There' s a general 2 year (i think) rule that they follow, but the rule is not hard and fast, and if a copyright owner complains that is taken as evidence that the game isn't old enough yet.

All such games will return later, when he companies have already made al lthey are going to.