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Out of the blue
Every once in a while, some random person out there will discover MAME, take the time to figure out how it works, and then submit something totally unexpected. This happened just recently.
When I originally added Shrike Avenger to the Bally/Sente driver, I didn't get very far. The basic game came up, but there were a lot of problems with it, and I didn't have enough interest in it to actually motivate myself to dig into solving the problems. Suffice it to say, they weren't easy problems to solve.
Last week, a submission came in through mame.net with a patch that actually made Shrike Avenger playable, albeit with messed up graphics. Yesterday another patch came through with the graphics fixed and the game fully playable. This is totally awesome, and literally came from out of the blue.
So, my hat is off to Peter Sealy, who sent in the patches and fixed the longstanding problems with this game. Here's hoping you'll find some other interesting tidbits in MAME to surprise us with in the future! :-)