> As Evans himself put it in a 2009 forum post, "everything does not need to be in MAME for it to be 'preserved.'" Ok how else is it going to be preserved beca

> As Evans himself put it in a 2009 forum post, "everything does not need to be in MAME for it to be 'preserved.'" Ok how else is it going to be preserved because it sure as hell isn't being preserved on decades old rom chips that could fail at any time, be destroyed by accident, lost in a fire, etc. I don't really care about the game or MAME as a whole but not only is this whole thing a case of he-said-she-said with no real facts or people going on the record (who matter, as in the person who was actually "stolen?" from). Also it feels like investors just butt-hurt that their precious cabinets might be worth less than before. All the other arguments ring rather hollow to me. > "Arcades are more than just the software," he continued. "When cabinets are specially tailored to a game experience, it makes that game stick with you more than playing a digital-only game on Steam... Akka Arrh's cabinet is unique, so if I ever had the chance, my preference would be to play it on the original cabinet over emulation any day." That's all well and good but the vast majority of people will never have that chance and it's pretty elitist to take this stance. It reeks of a "let them eat cake"-mentality.