Opinions wanted: Merge HBMAME with ARCADE64 ??

[Robert]

I'm having thoughts on adding the HBMAME romset to ARCADE64, with the eventual aim of closing down HBMAME. It will be a very slow process, taking more than a year.

 

But first, I want your thoughts on this idea. Good? Bad? Don't care?

 

[SecretAgentMan]

I personally like ARCADE64 as it is now.  Not really interested in what HBMAME offers.

[Midnight Kid]

‎I've been waiting for this since I first got acquainted with arcade emulators - 2013. Apparently, it's said the truth - when you really expect something, it'll happen sooner or later. And I see already the expected negative voices about that. 😁
‎Therefore, I have a suggestion - perhaps it makes sense to add a filters for MAME Home Brew and traditional MAME / ARCADE64 ROMs (similar as Available / Unavailable, Originals / Clones, etc.).
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‎Robert, I remember that you were against that, but under such circumstances, now I would like even more to see an additional audit type in ARCADE64 - ROM groups' audit. That's, if the ROM group is incomplete, 'cause some clone or original is missing entirely, the emulator will notify about that.

Edited September 25 by Midnight Kid

[Robert]

I'm having second thoughts on this idea, for the same reason that HBMAME is still at 0.245, so sorry to alarm you all. You can still give your opinions though.

Also, the forum performance is horribly slow, possibly due to the rampant bots that seem to be infesting many other forums, as they harvest everyone's input for their own nefarious use.

So, sorry about that. It might be that we'll have to restrict guest access entirely. We'll see.

[StHiryu]

Why not keep the projects separated as now, but using the arcade code and interface? HBMame looks a little outdated now...

Edited September 25 by StHiryu

[Dirstac]

I like this idea

[Thartchen]

TBH MameUI does everything I need and so I'll almost certainly never use HBMAME or ARCADE64.

I Installed Arcade64 a year or so ago and apart from marvelling at the improved GUI I found no compelling reason to go to all the effort to set it up in the same way I've now setup MameUI. It's taken me ages to get each game configured in just the way I want, and the thought of repeating all that effort for no perceived benefit was a non-starter.

 

MameUI isn't just 'good enough', its GREAT!!!

Edited 2 hours ago by Thartchen