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| jtslade:
--- Quote from: eds1275 on October 29, 2015, 03:54:06 am --- --- Quote from: voltz on October 29, 2015, 02:55:45 am ---I would imagine those massive libraries are so folks can demo their cabs with hyperspin via youtube. --- End quote --- lol. You know you're happy with your cabinet when the thing you show off the most is the game select menu. To be honest about the download thing, most people I'm sure download a giant torrent and hope everything is in it. I hate doing it, but I have backed it up onto a few bluray discs and likely won't do it again for a long time. I personally do play some of the adult games, and have an all-games list on my cab that takes like 8 minutes to scroll through without stopping. But it's mostly there for when I hear of an interesting game and want to play it. 99% of the time I just leave my menu up on the favourites list and most people are happy with that. But yeah it is a waste to download all that crap, and even worse to then leave 80% of that hogging room on a hard drive. I'm always scared to delete anything because of how easily you can mess up something else due to weird dependencies --- End quote --- Exactly,. On a podcast or some forum someone says you gotta check this awesome, awful, weird, funny game out. I can go and find it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
| ark_ader:
So in order to play classic games on an arcade cabinet today we have to: 1. Download a huge amount of data which 20% actually does something (hopefully). Assuming we are all on fiber... 2. Determine which Front-Ends to display this 20% content and select it on screen (which does take huge amount of time to get configured). 3. Purchase a top end PC to play the 20% content, due to the crap the MameDevs impose on requirements now. 4. Play such content for 30 minutes (if you are lucky) on a weekend, in a basement/garage, on an old stand up machine. Versus CoinOPS which you can play 100% content and get to lay on your couch after a 10 sec boot time and play your favorite classic game on a big screen TV. Let us hear the stats on that Howard. |
| Yenome:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on November 13, 2015, 02:04:27 pm ---So in order to play classic games on an arcade cabinet today we have to: 1. Download a huge amount of data which 20% actually does something (hopefully). Assuming we are all on fiber... 2. Determine which Front-Ends to display this 20% content and select it on screen (which does take huge amount of time to get configured). 3. Purchase a top end PC to play the 20% content, due to the crap the MameDevs impose on requirements now. 4. Play such content for 30 minutes (if you are lucky) on a weekend, in a basement/garage, on an old stand up machine. Versus CoinOPS which you can play 100% content and get to lay on your couch after a 10 sec boot time and play your favorite classic game on a big screen TV. Let us hear the stats on that Howard. --- End quote --- 100% of what content? not 100% of the games that mame runs. coinops compared to the pitiful pentium dual core i used in my bartop. The pentium plays more games at speed than coinops. I do like the fast boot time of coinops. But with an SSD and linux(altho my gaming rig boots in 12 seconds on windows 10) i would have the same thing. I may just be an exception but i dont have any game i dont have the controls for so on my bartop i dont have a light gun so those are out. with coinops i have the analog stick from the xbox controller so i can use that for lightgun games. |
| Howard_Casto:
Exactly. I don't get how he can't see that. I can buy a 50 dollar xbox and play whatever games will run on a 700mhz cpu or buy a 50 dollar pc from somewhere like arrowdirect and run everything but the games with 3d hardware acceleration. Also it's great if you like what coinOps has selected for you, but otherwise you are screwed. CoinOps plays far fewer games than your typical junk pc mame build does. Not to mention the fact that most people use more than mame on a mame cab. Supermodel, demul, ect ect.... none of these games are available on coinops. |
| pbj:
Yeah, CoinOps is like those 60 in 1s. Pretty damned great if that's all you want to play. |
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