Work on obscure games sometimes trickles down to get the more popular stuff working or improved. Popularity of a game doesn’t much correlate to its functioning

Work on obscure games sometimes trickles down to get the more popular stuff working or improved. Popularity of a game doesn’t much correlate to its functioning or accuracy. The starry background in Galaga was broken for years. Sometimes the mamedevs just don’t have a way of fixing a problem (encryption, missing dumps) or the performance isn’t there yet (N64, consoles since the PS2).