Sorry for all that trouble I wrought with my arcadecontrols thread

[pinballjim]

Really appreciate the patch I found here and was just hosting it there to make it easier for them to use it.

[Brian Hoffman]

Really appreciate the patch I found here and was just hosting it there to make it easier for them to use it.

Its water under the bridge now... At least we got an offical mame dev stance on this.

We did realize the the patch is a GREY area.. And also know how exciting it is to remove those screens... It really does make the cab look cleaner. I cannot blame you for being excited... And for wanting to make things easier for other users by posting it there.. I do believe your heart was in the right place...

Although I really would have liked you to remove it when I asked.. I was in contact with mame dev and was getting this resolved... According to AARON GILES it is okay as long as I provide my source.. Which turns a 400kb patch into a 13mb zip file... It kinda defeats the purpose.. Now that everyones feather are ruffled I do not want to bring that attention over here.

Out of respect for TOM and MAMEDEV..

It was nice while it lasted... Though it is LEGAL.. It is clearly againsed their wishes.

In the spirit of this forum it will NOT be posted here in the future.

Brian Hoffman

[headkaze]

You really know how to stir up a hornets nest pinballjim!

You know it would have been nice to ask permission here before posting something from this forum on BYOAC. Although I'm glad things have panned out the way they have as now we have the difinitive opinion on the patches from the Mame devs. Now you will never see another patch again, but hey it's the right action to take now. I just hope your happy to be the one that made it happen sooner

Regarding your conduct in that thread over on BYOAC. I must say I'm a little embarrassed about it. There should be no argument about whether it does or does not violate Mame's TOS, if they want the patches removed we should immediately follow out that request and remove them. You also should have removed that link when Brian asked you to. You were heading for a ban and it would have made sense to make things right instead of arguing about semantics with the Mame devs.

Anyway it's all over now. Time to get back to other things