If anyone wants to read the thread, just delay your bedtime for a while. I've only read the 1st 2 pages of 6 so far. :)

But I still don't understand exactly what pissed him off so much...? Supposedly he added backdrops to some tables without authors' permission, some authors didn't like it, & now Nicky Special has gone mad. Hmm...

I would tend to think (this is both in favour & against Nicky Special) that because Visual Pinball is public domain, VPinMAME is too, & then the tables contain the original manufacturer's name, game name, their graphics reproduced, sounds in some cases, & require the ROMs (which usually produce the bulk of the sound depending on the table), should every table not be public domain as well? I mean, we seem to think that we should be able to use all of those freely, so why should the table authors (I'm talking US, not William's etc.) say what you can & can't do?

I mean, I authored 1 table (Millionaire) & modded 2 (Taxi & Black Knight 2000), but actually Millionaire is really a mod of Pinbot (though Pinbot's author Andre did give me permission to do that after I asked him & this is mentioned in Millionaire's credits) & honestly, even though I set about some simple "rules" for modding Millionaire (which nobody has done anyway) if someone decided to rip it apart, add profanity, & release it, I honestly wouldn't care that much. This is supposed to be about PINBALL EMULATION & SIMULATION, not egos, authors, etc. I mean I will ask authors any just out of respect & because this is what was requested in the VPForums but think about it.

Don't forget... This is the internet, what do you expect?

Jay
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