Offer MAME core as a download, like FFmpeg #3505
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App: EmuHawk
Relating to EmuHawk frontend
Core: MAME
Multi-system core for thousands of arcade cabinets and "vintage" computers
Enhancement
For feature requests or possible improvements
Repro: Fixed/added in branch/fork
Milestone
It's the largest contributor to the download size by far at over 25% (edit: with e0e5a68, it's even more).
Having a separate update mechanism to EmuHawk would also allow for multiple options, for example the choice between "all arcades" (as 2.9) and "everything". (It would also allow for a separate release cadence, but I'm not sure how useful patching just the Waterbox guest side would be.)
On Discord, there's been some discussion over what we should do now that MAME has dropped the MAME/MESS distinction. If we came up with a categorisation that split the machine list into 4 subsets, then we could offer (at least) 5 builds—1 for each, plus 1 with everything.
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