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| SavannahLion:
Ah... I see. Well, my original comment still stands but it does narrow the selection somewhat. --- Quote from: Afterburner on January 22, 2012, 03:11:55 pm ---Perhaps as mobile devices become more capable and MAME ports to those devices get more mature there will be a stronger demand for an a la carte ROM biz model. --- End quote --- Don't get me started on this. There are a few developers who ported MAME to mobile devices and I find they just flat out suck. The problem is the typical control interface on a powerful mobile device is usually a touch screen. Exceptions exist, but it currently isn't the rule. Arcade games almost always have tactile control. ThinkGeek's iCade is awesome but restricted only to iOS devices. Sucks for the growing number of Androids out there. Even the official direct ports (I'm looking straight at you SEGA and 3D Realms) and unofficial ports "redesigned" for touch screens really truly suck. Here is an opportunity to revamp the control scheme and truly create a game that would really shine using the touch screen and these damn developers keep insisting on using a "classic" joypad/button control scheme. :puke |
| ark_ader:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on January 22, 2012, 03:47:45 pm ---Ah... I see. Well, my original comment still stands but it does narrow the selection somewhat. --- Quote from: Afterburner on January 22, 2012, 03:11:55 pm ---Perhaps as mobile devices become more capable and MAME ports to those devices get more mature there will be a stronger demand for an a la carte ROM biz model. --- End quote --- Don't get me started on this. There are a few developers who ported MAME to mobile devices and I find they just flat out suck. The problem is the typical control interface on a powerful mobile device is usually a touch screen. Exceptions exist, but it currently isn't the rule. Arcade games almost always have tactile control. ThinkGeek's iCade is awesome but restricted only to iOS devices. Sucks for the growing number of Androids out there. Even the official direct ports (I'm looking straight at you SEGA and 3D Realms) and unofficial ports "redesigned" for touch screens really truly suck. Here is an opportunity to revamp the control scheme and truly create a game that would really shine using the touch screen and these damn developers keep insisting on using a "classic" joypad/button control scheme. :puke --- End quote --- My Mame4ALL works great on my Tegra 2 Android with the Zeemote - Look Ma no fingerprints! ;D |
| wizkid32:
Dang it! I really hoped that this thread had lead to something! I heard that Exidy had something like that a while ago, with licensing on their shooters, but from what I heard, that is dead. The only thing that's improved in the ROM/M.A.M.E world since the first book is that more ROMs are now free for noncommercial use. There are still no classics, however. Still, progress is progress. With some luck, other manufacturers will follow suit with Exidy and offer some of their onld ROMs for free. (I can dream, can't I? :( ) |
| Afterburner:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on January 22, 2012, 03:47:45 pm ---Even the official direct ports (I'm looking straight at you SEGA and 3D Realms) and unofficial ports "redesigned" for touch screens really truly suck. Here is an opportunity to revamp the control scheme and truly create a game that would really shine using the touch screen and these damn developers keep insisting on using a "classic" joypad/button control scheme. :puke --- End quote --- Yep...agree with you 100% there. My first android device had a mini-trackball that was a decent joystick stand-in for most 8-way games. Now my phone has the small scrollpad rather than a trackball and it doesn't work as well. I bought the pack of Atari Classic games for my phone and you are right...they did sort of a poor job on the interface. I have a "free" version of a ripoff of Missile Command that is way more fun than the Atari version because the touchscreen interface is done so well. |
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