Vas Crabb

Doing so would require quite a bit of work. The lack of a real font server is an issue on Linux. It pushes stuff like font substitution for missing characters...

How widespread is DejaVu Sans in Linux distributions, and what’s its coverage like for Latin script languages? Various things in MAME no longer use plain ASCII for the main description....

126b4036e3433ee5d1c48a98d2feb8492b6d4cbc addresses the issue of vgmplay using weird characters for the playback controls: 

See discussion on #57 – changing the lfs API to use UTF-8 would make it incompatible with built-in Lua functionality. For example you wouldn’t be able to pass a file...

See b4e1f5f1b50fd3402232dd0385cac021ba488db6

The software you’re demonstrating this with was developed decades after the machine was obsolete, likely using emulators. The current raster position values were set in #12570 by @lidnariq, supposedly based...

> Going on precedent, I think this could be done as a configuration switch, with the current cropped behavior as the default. You can already adjust it in the sliders...

> I disagree with forcing some horizontal and vertical stretching values based on an assumption that it is not 100% accurate in all TVs and monitors. There are only two...

I think we’d rather have the 8048 emulation fixed properly rather than removed altogether. We prefer to emulate stuff in more detail where possible, and this should be within MAME’s...

Look, we’d really rather have actual emulation rather than adding trivia about the content of the ROMs in comments.