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One dev's comments on MAME's development history: new section
Please update that. (Edit: This section was added by OrphanedPixel)
:Yeah, we don't know how to find the template pages that lets editors to update automatic versioning of many emulators/software covered on this wiki. I think since the update to the mediawiki software running this website, the admins may have hidden away those template pages. For instance, I couldn't find anything under the "[http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Special:SpecialPages#High_use_pages High use pages]" section or somewhere else like we used to before. Perhaps, we may have to wait for admins to edit the versions? Does anyone else have another idea of how we could track down these version template pages? [[User:ObiKKa|ObiKKa]] ([[User talk:ObiKKa|talk]]) 14:58, 28 April 2019 (EDT)
 
== One dev's comments on MAME's development history ==
 
I saw that [https://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2019/03/30/the-importance-of-alternate-versions/ this post, uploaded on March 30, 2019], was the latest article on one MAME developer, Haze's blog at the time of viewing it in late April. In the comments section, Haze has provided elaborately detailed and passionately written replies in early April to other commenters' questions about the turbulent history of MAME's development, the restructuring it underwent, internal politics within the community of MAME developers; and threats from outside like RetroArch/libretro with their poor design model (In his own words) and the curious quirk of crowdfunding platforms for emulation software.
 
That last part is about how many people are pledging so much money into the crowdfunding accounts (Like Patreon) for some emulators that cover current-generation systems (At the time of this writing, ''yuzu'' and ''Ryujinx'' have been making so much progress in emulating the current-gen Nintendo Switch console; ''TeknoParrot'' as a virtualization software is even covering so many modern PC tech-based arcade cabinet games from the 2000's and early-mid 2010's; while ''Orbital'' is collecting decent money at the moment to emulate the PS4, but that one is very early days, nothing in particular is shown of it, and that console is close to being superseded anyway.).
 
So this was a rather lucky find for me. Hopefully, you the readers, who bumped into this, would enjoy checking the link and reading his opinions, trials & tribulations, and joys of working on MAME.
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