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[squidfood]

I just want to be able to play games in MAME again, I shouldn't bother with CLR MAME right?  I see a MAME archive on mame.net ... what is a good version for games from the 90s?  When did they make MAME incompatible with the web archives?  Do any of the web archives care to update their files?  Why's MAME gotta be so unfriendly?

[Roman]

- MAME is not about playing, it's about documenting
- Since MAME's does continous work on correctness, sets will be changed, that's the part where rom managing tools come in....or you can do all the changes on your own
- mamedev.org is the official page mame.net redirects to this
- the latest version of MAME is .137 (and if you want to compile your own current builds, go for .137u3) and this version should be used
- MAME is friendly. If you're refering to rom pages with your web archives, then you're refering to illegal sites. Period.

[squidfood]

You have some interesting ideas my friend.  Do you think the public is being served by copyrights that prevent 20-year-old artistic creations from being experienced just in case the creators' old corporate employer decides to try to make a few bucks off their work at a later date?  Will it still be immoral to smoke pot after it is legalized and CA gov alone is collecting well over a billion dollars in taxes?  I know we're both smart enough to be on the same side and there are legitimate reasons to not directly link to rom sites.

[Roman]

All copyright holders of the games listed in MAME are invited to make them freely available. If they don't (some did), the copyright law is pretty clear on the legal terms of having (or better not having) them on your hd.