Hey John, was it you that dumped the roms and got the Ridge Racer three screen version working in mame? If so, i'm assuming they haven't incorporated it into the programme yet as even in the latest version it still only loads up one instance of the hardware (presumably it would run three instances of the hardware and link them together, as happens with the real hardware)?
Yeah, it was me.
I did a special build of MAME so people could play it, but it's a bit glitchy so I need to sort that.
It's not in real MAME as...
I did some initial Namco linkup code a few years ago and shared it on a forum, Sailorsat took that and made it better (more systems, more players) then submitted it to MAME... and it went down like a lead baloon, probably as it was a massive change with loads of other things thrown in so a nightmare to review.
Sailorsat broke it down into smaller submissions and was waiting for help/feedback, but that wasn't exactly overflowing and now they've gone quiet too.
I haven't got the time to get involved with all that, code reviews are bad enough in my job, never mind for a hobby, so I just did the triple screen as a standalone build. But it's using the same code that Sailorsat submitted and we both worked on. That's why I was a bit sniffy about the closed-source of this new emulator as I'd be very surprised if it isn't using the linkup stuff from sailorsat's CabMAME branch, amongst other things.
