Arcade Projects

Depends on what the fork is trying to do. If someone forks the Genesis core to add 32x support nobody is going to be mad. Fork the NES core to add save states.. everyone will cheer you.

Or add those to the main branch :)

Definitely. I think it'll eventually happen. Heck, MiSTers UI could totally be improved while still keeping it simple, basic, and clean. Just gotta be patient I think.

Like everything, we just need a dev who isn't busy with the drive to add them. I suspect we'll see NES save states sooner than later (no insider info here) but we'll see. Hell, I'd tackle Genesis save states if I had the time and didn't have prior projects.

The point wasn't that you can't make an adapter and call it mister, the point was that you can't make something incompatible with MiSTers current framework and call it mister. Work within that and I doubt he'd have any issues, as can be deduced by the upcoming mister add ons.

(Paraphrased) “Incompatible with the framework” is poppycock, like you can’t support alternate hardware via internal config file and some #ifdefs even in the most crude implementation. It’s resistance to outside ideas or willingness to help integrate them in many cases.

There's a thing called project scope. Sorg has his idea of what the project should be. He no doubt didn't expect the project to become as popular as it has.. and it will surely morph into something else beyond his intention in time. But for now, it is what it is and that's ok.