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| Crazy Cooter:
I haven't used MESS before but I'm looking into it pretty seriously. I had two questions though that I wanted to clear up: 1) I was wondering though what the 'status' means as shown on http://www.mess.org/supported_systems? Does 'preliminary' mean zero-few games are playable, then 'imperfect' is some games are playable, and 'good' means most are playable? That's what I would assume... 2) My second question has to do with layouts for artwork. My understanding is they are nearly identical (in function) to how MAME does it. Is this correct? |
| Haze:
--- Quote from: Crazy Cooter on November 02, 2011, 08:45:58 pm ---I haven't used MESS before but I'm looking into it pretty seriously. I had two questions though that I wanted to clear up: 1) I was wondering though what the 'status' means as shown on http://www.mess.org/supported_systems? Does 'preliminary' mean zero-few games are playable, then 'imperfect' is some games are playable, and 'good' means most are playable? That's what I would assume... --- End quote --- It varies.. SegaCD is still marked as preliminary, but I'd say 80-90% of the titles work fine. (I don't like to mark things as working until I feel they're on par with other emulators) Jaguar was at one point marked as working, and I think 2 games in the entire library run! Try it and find out... --- Quote ---2) My second question has to do with layouts for artwork. My understanding is they are nearly identical (in function) to how MAME does it. Is this correct? --- End quote --- MESS is identical in function to MAME, they are exactly the same piece of software with different support lists. MESS presents things slightly differently with the systems / software list concept but this functionality exists and is used in MAME too, for example the megatech multi-cart support. |
| Crazy Cooter:
Thanks Haze. Sounds like this will work the way I want it to. |
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