JohnBud said:
John,
Join the official site and ask! They have a forum and the guys that write the emulation code are on there also.
http://mamedev.org/
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John,
Join the official site and ask! They have a forum and the guys that write the emulation code are on there also.
http://mamedev.org/
Mesmeric_G said:Fair enough, I didn't realise there were still companies still making games, thats how out of touch I am
Yeah the Taito TypeX, TypeX2 and Sega Lindbergh stuff all runs on PC hardware with dongles for protection. Most of it has been cracked AFAIK, so you can get all the games that run on this hardware running on normal PCs.
I guess I can understand the easier to police PoV, still kind of crazy if you want to sell a booty Double Dragon
Plus there's stuff like Cave PCBs which, certainly last time I was on AO or KillerCabs (alas no more), they were incredibly popular and still being made. I am a little out of date though.
The problem with Mame cabs (IMO only) is that as great as the emulation is these days, it's never as good as the real thing. No matter how much people will argue otherwise, for me, it can't beat it.
I built a mame cab myself once and it was really nicely done in a superb little Subelectro cabaret but what ultimately killed it for me was the ability to have 1000's of games on tap. It became instantly boring.
But then I'm a bit like that. If I'm at a show like the Slam then I tend to wonder about and get bored and don't necessarily play many of the games (though I did play the vids a bit this time). If I'm at a small meet with a dozen cabs you tend to get drawn into getting into them a lot more. Much more fun.
Quantity != Quality IMO.
The problem with Mame cabs (IMO only) is that as great as the emulation is these days, it's never as good as the real thing. No matter how much people will argue otherwise, for me, it can't beat it.
I built a mame cab myself once and it was really nicely done in a superb little Subelectro cabaret but what ultimately killed it for me was the ability to have 1000's of games on tap. It became instantly boring.
But then I'm a bit like that. If I'm at a show like the Slam then I tend to wonder about and get bored and don't necessarily play many of the games (though I did play the vids a bit this time). If I'm at a small meet with a dozen cabs you tend to get drawn into getting into them a lot more. Much more fun.
Quantity != Quality IMO.