Mame?

[Grant64]

I was wondering? How does MAME work - Is it basically loads of authors of seperate arcade boards who on completion of their emu decide to release this emu into mame or what???
Just wondered
Thanks
Grant64

[Allnatural]

That's basicly how it works. It started as seperate emulators for various types of arcade hardware. Now it's seperate drivers for various types of hardware which are integrated into the mame core. Lots of people on the team, each focused on a specific driver I believe, and the whole project coordinated by one man.

www.mame.net

[Grant64]

So just for an example the latest VivaNonno will be ported to mame later in its life???

[cooliscool]

mame supports a plethora of games, they just arent in the compiled versions. Sure as hell though they are in the source, i also think that it does support system 22 just there are no compiled versions of mame that run it, but like i said before, its all in the source.

[Allnatural]

Originally posted by Grant64
So just for an example the latest VivaNonno will be ported to mame later in its life???

It doesn't quite work like that. MAME doesn't absorb other emulators. The contributers and coders add to specific parts of the code, focusing on specific types of arcade hardware generally.
As cooliscool has said, preliminary support for System22 has already been implemented in MAME, just not in any released, official binaries.

[blizz]

some arcade programers will add they're code to MAME once they're emu is finished though