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| Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: pbj on November 13, 2015, 05:15:43 pm ---Yeah, CoinOps is like those 60 in 1s. Pretty damned great if that's all you want to play. --- End quote --- Exactly. I'm not knocking the setup because like you say it's a fine solution if that's what you want to play. It just doesn't apply as a solution to the problem we are facing... at least not for most people. I'm not denying that right now running a current build of mame is a huge pain in the butt.... that's what I was complaining about all along. I'd rather find a true solution instead of throwing the baby out with the bathwater though. |
| ark_ader:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on November 13, 2015, 06:06:54 pm --- --- Quote from: pbj on November 13, 2015, 05:15:43 pm ---Yeah, CoinOps is like those 60 in 1s. Pretty damned great if that's all you want to play. --- End quote --- Exactly. I'm not knocking the setup because like you say it's a fine solution if that's what you want to play. It just doesn't apply as a solution to the problem we are facing... at least not for most people. I'm not denying that right now running a current build of mame is a huge pain in the butt.... that's what I was complaining about all along. I'd rather find a true solution instead of throwing the baby out with the bathwater though. --- End quote --- I have both PC and console, but it is tiring to keep up with it. The PC at Arrow Direct for $50 has a nice graphics card in it, but I have to stop and downgrade MAME as most games just do not work properly, then I have to mirror the drives, and have several backups on hand, a new version comes out and it all has to start again.... :puke To be honest it is a ---smurfing--- nightmare and I do not play more than 10 games out of that whole content in a month, in addition to the other cabinet friendly games I have. Enough is enough. CoinOPS is a blessing in disguise. Not the same I know but you get my drift, right? Or maybe I am falling out of favor with it all. |
| B2K24:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on November 14, 2015, 12:56:47 am ---I have both PC and console, but it is tiring to keep up with it. The PC at Arrow Direct for $50 has a nice graphics card in it, but I have to stop and downgrade MAME as most games just do not work properly, then I have to mirror the drives, and have several backups on hand, a new version comes out and it all has to start again.... :puke To be honest it is a ---smurfing--- nightmare and I do not play more than 10 games out of that whole content in a month, in addition to the other cabinet friendly games I have. Enough is enough. CoinOPS is a blessing in disguise. Not the same I know but you get my drift, right? Or maybe I am falling out of favor with it all. --- End quote --- Damn filthy casuals. Sometimes I'd spend 50 bucks in a single weekend during the mid - late 90's *facepalms* MAME gives you the ability to run Arcade/Consoles/Computers from all over the world and much more easily with softlist loading. If something so simple is too complex for you guys to keep everything organized . Then by all means stick to your coin OP junk boxes :D |
| dkersten:
--- Quote from: jtslade on November 13, 2015, 01:32:27 pm ---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 --- End quote --- But let's be honest, how often is that awesome, awful, weird, funny game part of the 80% of the junk you shouldn't have and don't even need in the complete MAME list? If you look back to the start of this thread, we are talking about having an easy way to filter out all the crap nobody wants. Even if you are into checking out some oddball game, filtering out all the mahjong and gambling games as well as games that don't work and the clones of games that do, you will still find it in the ~4,000 titles left. We use MAME because we want all the games to be available, even if we don't play them. But MAME isn't about games you would ever play, it's about emulating anything that isn't x86 based (oversimplification, yes). I came to this forum to figure out how to build my own cabinet so I could play arcade games. Not so I could play arcade games on other devices, not so I could play gambling games or mahjong, and not to have a library of games that have not been emulated properly yet. I just want to load up a list of all playable GAMES without having to spend 50 hours making it work right. I don't want some kind of spinning menu, this isn't wheel of fortune. I don't need a supercomputer to run my FE, I already have my PC gaming rig that I dump tons of money into so I can play Fallout 4 on max settings. On my cab I want to play Pacman, DK, Centipede, and maybe some obscure game I found in an arcade when I was 12 and played for 6 hours. I want to play some fighting games and maybe even one that came out in the last two decades because I like fighting games on a stand up cab. And I want it to look like something from an arcade but customized just enough to make it MINE. So why isn't there any easy solution to do all this? The learning curve to get to where I am now is insane because MAME is so overstuffed with garbage nobody cares about and the supporting software can't keep up. Sadly, it gets worse each year. |
| yotsuya:
Because the MAME developers don't care about your cab, their goal is to document and emulate their machines from those decades, including the ones you never played. Just like the Pi developers don't care about your bartop project, they have different goals. If you want to do something different than their stated goals, that's your problem, not thers. |
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