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DAPHNE - Why?
Magnet_Eye:
Ok, so I am wondering why you need DAPHNE. If you can buy the DVD games (Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, etc), what do you need to make MPEG's from the DVD for? Why not just play the DVD's?
Also, Digital Leisures has the DVD game AND a CD-Rom that is "Arcade Authentic". What's the difference? Just quality?
Thanks.
SirPoonga:
daphne is a laserdisc emulator.
you need mpgs for daphne because that is very close to a real laserdisc image.
Otherwise, daphne does have a forum...
Jakobud:
Well you can do three different things here:
1. Use Daphne to play individual laser discs...in which you have to manually switch between the laserdiscs to play them.
2. Use the regular DVD Rom player to play the DVD Roms on your computer. Once again, having to switch between DVD's when you want to switch games.
3. Use Daphne to play MPEGS. You have have all the supported games in MPEG format on your harddrive and you never have to swap any discs. Just choose the game and go. Perfect for a arcade cabinet.
If you have any vision, I think you can see that #3 is the obvious choice here...
Magnet_Eye:
Yeah, i see that. I can have all the games on the HD. But other than that, there is real no advantage or need for it?
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: Magnet_Eye on September 15, 2002, 08:44:17 am ---
Yeah, i see that. I can have all the games on the HD. But other than that, there is real no advantage or need for it?
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Alot of game daphne plays are not on dvd.