> > 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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