Hello,
As an arcade video game player of well over 30 years and a former owner of a couple different arcade games, I'm trying to bring my zeal for the MAME Project to those who might have wanted to help the Project, but were looking for a more 'common man' way to do so.
I am moderator and help run the MAMETESTERS.org site for the MAME Project. Over the last couple years, through the use of the MANTIS Bug Reporting system, there has been a great deal of work attempting to categorize, identify and fix problems in emulation for games of all eras so that the presentation of such games are preserved, long after the original pcb's have died out.
Some of you are regular MAME users and may have already noticed problems with emulation in games in which you own the actual PCB. There are also games which MAME doesn't currently support or list which could, at the very least, get properly documented as existing (different revisions or version numbers), even if you decide not to share the romsets.
I humbly invite anyone who has original source material (PCBs, manuals, schematics or cabinets..) to help the Project. You can contact me privately, in a forum (here or mameworld.info is good), or even as a Tester at http://mametesters.org if you have any information you'd think would be useful in furthering MAME's goal of accurately emulating and documenting all manner of amusement machines.
As an arcade video game player of well over 30 years and a former owner of a couple different arcade games, I'm trying to bring my zeal for the MAME Project to those who might have wanted to help the Project, but were looking for a more 'common man' way to do so.
I am moderator and help run the MAMETESTERS.org site for the MAME Project. Over the last couple years, through the use of the MANTIS Bug Reporting system, there has been a great deal of work attempting to categorize, identify and fix problems in emulation for games of all eras so that the presentation of such games are preserved, long after the original pcb's have died out.
Some of you are regular MAME users and may have already noticed problems with emulation in games in which you own the actual PCB. There are also games which MAME doesn't currently support or list which could, at the very least, get properly documented as existing (different revisions or version numbers), even if you decide not to share the romsets.
I humbly invite anyone who has original source material (PCBs, manuals, schematics or cabinets..) to help the Project. You can contact me privately, in a forum (here or mameworld.info is good), or even as a Tester at http://mametesters.org if you have any information you'd think would be useful in furthering MAME's goal of accurately emulating and documenting all manner of amusement machines.

