> I was more talking about making it non-trivial to add 2001+ games to a different
> version of mame.
>

the bootlegs are unprotected anyway, it would have made no difference at all. at no point was the protection on the later games documented, people simply used bootlegs.

there is one cps2 game which wouldn't be included in Mame at this point, and I strongly suspect that even if the encryption was figured out emulating it would be impossible without extracting a large amount of data from the original boards like the fd1094, and if somebody can do that they could bootleg/emulate it anyway.

> Other then it might have kept kaillera on talking terms with the mame team. It
> would have added control to the mame team to make sure their software isn't used
> for purposes they dont intend.
>


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