@ KingHanco:To be more specific I'm gonna quote what
OopsWare originally wrote:
small fix , make the linear zoom more precise ...
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OopsWare himself told me via MSN that he want to make CPS3 "better emulated" in FBA than it currently is in MAME, so that should be enough to make clear FBA is not a "HACK" or whatever you want to call it.
btw, do you know how much MAME make use of "Hacks" to make games work?, if you didn't know why are you talking about FBA hacking games, FBA is a emulator / MAME is a emulator...no big deal. If you prefer MAME for X or Y reason, that's your choice and because of that you will have to wait until a MAME devs work on the Linear Zoom fixes (with MAME dev I refer to anybody that is "developing" an Official / Unofficial MAME build, etc...)
And if we gonna talk about hacking, when you have time, check out the comments included in any emulator source code you want, i bet you that most of the emulators (if not all) out there "have to" hack something (BIOS / ROMs / IRQs / Watchdogs / CPUs / Memory Reads & Writes ) to "emulate" X or Y system / hardware.
SeeYaa!