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Offer MAME core as a download, like FFmpeg #3505

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It's the largest contributor to the download size by far at over 25% (edit: with e0e5a68, it's even more).
screencap of Filelight disk space analysis
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 (now tracking as #4289). 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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