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What the fuck am I looking at here?

The main reason, at least here on this forum, is that there don't seem to be any active moderators here anymore, so everyone can come in and insult everyone else without fear of consequences.

you're quoting me from 5 years ago, because this guy decided to come along and bump his threads everywhere he crossposted them before, despite getting a comprehensive answer at the time.

maybe if he invested the same amount of effort into understanding how things worked he could actually fix it instead... most people developing MAME these days are regular users.

Indeed, sorry, I didn't check the date properly.

My point still stands though, recently lots of posts here have been allowed which would, 10 years a go or so, have resulted in an immediate ban and/or deletion.

Just report the post to moderation.

It's one thing to cross-post in user forums with this kind of stuff, but he's also unloaded on MT (now deleted it seems). If it deserves a ban anywhere, it's on the bug tracker—that's a tool, not a place for venting.

YOU have had 5.5 years to figure this out yourself. What have YOU been doing with YOUR time? It is a MAJOR disrespect to the game / developers / community to KNOW that it is broken and to be so SURE that it is an EASY fix to not take the time YOURSELF and figure it out.

Oh wait... I know... YOU DON'T CARE

Major disrespect to the game? Like, in your mind the game is a sacred deity and it’s blasphemy to emulate it imperfectly? You need to have a serious think about your values.

As for Arcade 1UP, they’ll do whatever it is they do, we don’t control them. They might have a stab at emulating it better, but they’d probably just screw it up somehow no matter how well MAME emulates it.

MAME is not a celebration of arcade games. MAME is a living documentation project to ensure digital culture is preserved. We’ve succeeded in ensuring that the Spy Hunter ROMs are documented and archived. Be thankful that you can play the original game at all, and not some poor-quality reproduction.

Once again, we have nothing to do with the people selling multi-game arcade cabinets. If they think old versions of MAME are good enough for their purposes, they’ll use them. It seems that no matter how much we improve emulation, they’ll stick with old versions anyway. Even if we were to improve Spy Hunter sound, they’d keep using old versions without the fixes.

So would you prefer we don’t emulate the game at all, or for the ROMs to fall out of circulation? If MAME’s emulation isn’t good enough for you, you’re free to purchase and maintain a Spy Hunter cabinet. You haven’t paid us for our time, we have no obligations to you. Also, if you’re “in love with the game” to the point that you feel a need to post rants like this, you need to re-think your outlook.

Obvious troll is obvious even five years later. How dare you steal Greta Thunberg's meme.

Had Spy Hunter analogue envelope and filter hardware?

It is no insult to lack complicated sound features. It's much worse when 8-bit games turn fully unplayable on non-highend CPUs by too overzealous discrete sound emulation attempts without permitting a bypass (e.g. sample based) mode. E.g. Sega vector games with speech stutter at 10% speed now on my 1.6GHz Core2Duo which runs similar games from before that update fine. Also Sega vector games without speech work well despite emulated analogue sound, and the GI SP0250 speech chip itself is digital.