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#61 Geddy

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Posted 02 February 2017 - 07:12 PM

It's not a case of changing, I just find it ironic that I'm being told to 'credit the original author' etc by someone who erm... has been known in the past to have issues with that same principle.  'Changing' has nothing to do with it.  I've no reason to 'change' on this stance as it's the fairer option I'm taking....

 

I did not wade into a thread criticising work (however pointless you think it is) that someone has spent 1000's of hours on to do their part for the scene and wider emulation scene as a whole.  I was never told at the beginning I should include X and Y and not do Z etc etc.  I did what I thought was best and tweaked it along the way.  The captions were changed via the gam file to give uniformity.  You (Wizard) did not even know it would work, I remember the conversation at the time.  Older gam files did not have a 'game' entry.  They all will revert once loaded. Since no one complained (remember if you do not use them (dats) they can't change YOUR layouts!) and when the opportunity in v5.x made it possible to actually save the caption I thought hum okay I'll do it like that.... it did not matter and out of the 4500 plus layouts about the last 50 or so are 'saved.'  Again none of the creators complained, maybe out of ignorance but still no complaints. I was not hiding anything.  I tried to make the layouts as uniform as possible so again adopted the 'ram reset' stance.  This again is not the case in ALL the layouts, I've only started doing this in the last year or so.  I wish I had the get up and go to go back and do them all but sadly no.

 

So two people have complained in 17 years.  One does not make layouts and the other does not put his name in the caption (which you can't see at F3.) Both do not use the dats... so erm really it's all a bit mountain and molehill but since you can't or more likely won't understand WHY I do it my way the same way you code YOUR emulator YOUR way the best solution is to stop updating the layout dats.  Like I said I do not want to upset anyone and cause you (Wizard) to leave the scene again and spoil folks fun.



#62 Wizard

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Posted 02 February 2017 - 07:17 PM

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#63 aaamusements

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Posted 02 February 2017 - 07:24 PM

People have had the chance to have their say now, I believe that's a sensible point to leave it and I'll happily take any criticism for locking this one.

As both threads are essentially on the same subject I'm going to merge them too.




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