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MAME and FB Alpha documentation.

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

The issue lists MAME, its versioned cores, MESS, UME, and FB Alpha variants as needing documentation in the libretro/docs repository. Start by identifying the existing documentation structure for these cores; completion would require documenting the listed cores, but the issue does not define the required content or acceptance criteria.

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Description

Contributors with extensive knowledge of the MAME and FB Alpha cores are needed.

  • MAME
  • MAME 2000
  • MAME 2003
  • MAME 2003 Midway
  • MAME 2003-Plus - Experimental
  • MAME 2009
  • MAME 2010
  • MAME 2014
  • MAME 2016
  • MESS 2014
  • UME 2014
  • FB Alpha
  • FB Alpha 2012
  • FB Alpha 2012 CPS-1
  • FB Alpha 2012 CPS-2
  • FB Alpha 2012 CPS-3
  • FB Alpha 2012 Neo Geo
Dominant language
TeX
Stars
346
Forks
860
Avg merge
5d 16h
Merged PRs (30d)
7

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