Oh that. That's more of a rage "quit" because of longstanding disagreements and personal problems with an individual, no "crew" ran them out. Of note it's not like they stopped their drama, it continued on the MAMEWorld forums. And it's not like aarongiles has stopped all MAME related work.

https://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&...

And even if I don't agree with cuavas entirely, they aren't totally in the wrong here either IMHO and they do explain their positions. I happen to agree with their disdain and disingenuity of keeping hoarded roms "safe", Aaron's sanctimony does get annoying at times even if unintentional and I can see how it can rub someone the wrong way, especially with as much effort invested as cuavas. Seriously if MAME was really the shithole a number of (primarily American clique) loudmouths have been saying it is, they should just fork, talk is cheap though

Reminds me of the time in Dec 1999 I wrote a patch to add save files for the NES emulator in MESS because my wife was playing Legend of Zelda and wanted to save.