Yup, there's a discussion at least, not sure if anyone can do anything about it or if it was the right place to ask. I wrote about the same thing three months ago, help to self help is offered, would probably be great if one were programming and compiling stuff more often than once a year or so. ;-...

Hi there.

Looks like you're getting answers at bannister.org so I guess we can leave them to it! (them == us typically anyways...)
https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads ... Post119257

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(the download is locked behind a registration). This is because you need to setup an account on their server in order to be able to play; just the executable won't do you any good. The gameplay is not peer-to-peer but client-server; all gameplay goes through their server. The idea is that you put t...

PS: For anyone interested in compiling MAME with VS 2019: Mame Docs (as linked to by Stiletto) says this: "MAME can only be compiled with the Visual Studio 15.7.6 tools. Bugs in newer versions of the Microsoft Visual C/C++ compiler prevent it from compiling MAME." That is incorrect. I can...

We don't really take requests in that fashion.

If you'd like to see that game emulated, your best option is to acquire it on eBay or something, and then send it off for dumping.

Or if you find your handheld... send it off for dumping.

Probably MAMEHub. Community exists mainly on Discord these days, but there's also a reddit.
https://discord.gg/4PDvAX4
https://reddit.com/r/MAMEhub/

The main thing you might want to do is a SOURCES= build; that's the single thing that'll have the most impact on build times. Only build the stuff you want, while you are experimenting. That works with our makefile that uses GENIE. https://docs.mamedev.org/initialsetup/compilingmame.html#all-platfor...

In case you missed MAMEdev's presentation at FOSDEM ’21 (FOSDEM - Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting) on Saturday, February 6, 2021, MAMEdev has uploaded the presentation that MAME's development and release manager Vas Crabb ("cuavas") contributed to MAMEdev's very ...

'Twas The Night Before MAME or: A Visit From St. Nicola (Mickola?) by Stiletto (ed. Mog) --------------------------- 'Twas the night before Thursday, and all through the list; Not a member was posting, not even on Gist! The code was all pushed up to Github with care, In hopes that St. Nicola soon wo...