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mame = real arcade... or not ?

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Ninja Supremacist:

MAME makes a worthy attempt at being all things to all people.  Most people don't care about the verbose complaints put forth by monitorguru.  Most people can't tell the difference.  It's close enough and if you need it perfect, somebody probably has a specialized version of MAME for it..  Otherwise, you're in it to have fun, not prove your technical prowess or brag about overpriced brand names nobody knows or cares about.



TurboC--:

Eh?  You are free to play MAME on your PC at this very instant.  Try the games you want most, and see if they meet your standards.  Luckily I like "the classics" which don't take a lot of power to emulate.  Is it a perfect emulation?  Probably not 100% perfect, but they ARE the actual ROMs.  There's no real reason an emulation can't be 100% perfect though.  Some games might be.  Not sure how you would ever know for sure.  Set up some kind of fixed-input test program and videotape the results on each?  Heh.

Ninja Supremacist:

 ;D Monitor,... Just a jab for your response to my other thread.

It's hard to recapture the past. If curators could be as accurate as the geek world is at preserving history, we'd have much different museums. 

the3eyedblindman:


--- Quote from: MonitorGuru on September 03, 2005, 08:06:10 pm ---I got into Maming but never built a Mame cabinet, and instead started finding and refurbishing (and building from scratch replica cabinets) original arcade games.

However, I know that when I load up Pac/MsPac/PacPlus on mame, the patterns between mame and my real arcadge game boards for all 3 games are NOT the same, so I can't use the same patterns to play one over the other. (Yes, I've compared the roms and they are identical).

That said, if I wouldn't have compared it against the real board, I would never have known the difference.

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That sounds like what Im doing, building a scratch moonwalker cab and just using an old computer instead of a pcb, can you post some pictures of some of the cabs youve made? Ive always had an interest in cabinets like this.

TurboC--:


--- Quote from: MonitorGuru on September 03, 2005, 08:06:10 pm ---However, I know that when I load up Pac/MsPac/PacPlus on mame, the patterns between mame and my real arcadge game boards for all 3 games are NOT the same, so I can't use the same patterns to play one over the other. (Yes, I've compared the roms and they are identical).
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WHAAA??  Well, have you factored in that there are various different roms, bootlegs and also settings in Tab-screen for difficulty I think? 

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