Chris is absolutely correct in that I don't want to keep a huge supply of Beta versions around just to be able to playback the games.(posted 9891 days ago)My suggestion was not to disallow the use of the betas but that once the final release came out all Beta recordings that don't work with the final release have to be recorded again on the final release.
How would we ensure this works ?!
Probably the easiest way is for Chris to have a script that removes all the beta recordings when the final release comes out. Then all those of us who have made recordings (I keep a copy of all of mine just in case) can check their Beta recordings. If they still playback without any problems we can upload them again selecting the final release.
This will not prevent those great little battles we have with some of the new releases nor will we necessarily always need to re-record our recordings. Obviously for some of the older huge recordings such as the 20million Steve did on Galaga we would probably have to let these stay (since it doesn't playback with v0.33 Final) but we could introduce this structure for all future releases. After v0.34 Final comes out.
How else will we be able to playback 10 year old recordings in 2008 when we only have Mame v0.65 and above still on our HDDs (assuming they're still called HDDs in 2008) ?
Cheers, BeeJay.