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Tiger-Heli:
Saw this post on using the Zinc Graphics engine in MAME - sounds like it could be a good option for PowerMAME - http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=51467.0

AE35:

Hi Tiger-Heli! (great name...I was crazy about that game)

I wanted to have some fighter games like Beastorizer on my next cabinet.
So, I started to make the next folder of games on my PC.

Then, for fun, I tried zinc. I couldn't get Kawaks og nebula to work(I think
MAME deserves kudos in this area) so I ran Beastorizer on zinc...WOW!!

I need something like MAME, because I need to have a coin-input and all the
games on a HDD. But what I can't understand is why no-one has made a
plugin or the like for MAME? I understand that they want to preserve the
games a accurately as possible, but they're not very fun to play that way :)

So what are my options?? The new cabinet is being built:)

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: AE35 on March 14, 2006, 09:27:47 am ---But what I can't understand is why no-one has made a
plugin or the like for MAME? I understand that they want to preserve the
games a accurately as possible, but they're not very fun to play that way :)

--- End quote ---
I don't think you'll ever see it in the official build.  That's why Zinc was created.  MAMEdev in general is not concerned with how fun they are to play.  OTOH, this seems to fit in with what MikeQ was working on with PowerMAME, IMHO.

--- Quote ---So what are my options?? The new cabinet is being built:)

--- End quote ---
Any reason you can't use Zinc for the games it supports and MAME for the others - I haven't messed with Zinc, just heard lots of good things about it.  Otherwise, wait to see if MikeQ likes my suggestion.

AE35:
Well, I can't get it to work with MaLa...

But, there must be other like this. What is powermame anyway? is that
something like it? It doesnt have to be zinc, just something similar.

Thanks,

Nicholas

MikeQ:

--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on March 14, 2006, 10:02:59 am ---
--- Quote from: AE35 on March 14, 2006, 09:27:47 am ---But what I can't understand is why no-one has made a
plugin or the like for MAME? I understand that they want to preserve the
games a accurately as possible, but they're not very fun to play that way :)

--- End quote ---
I don't think you'll ever see it in the official build.  That's why Zinc was created.  MAMEdev in general is not concerned with how fun they are to play.  OTOH, this seems to fit in with what MikeQ was working on with PowerMAME, IMHO.

--- Quote ---So what are my options?? The new cabinet is being built:)

--- End quote ---
Any reason you can't use Zinc for the games it supports and MAME for the others - I haven't messed with Zinc, just heard lots of good things about it.  Otherwise, wait to see if MikeQ likes my suggestion.


--- End quote ---

Don't really know anything about zinc and how it does it's rendering.  Might be something to look at.   It looks like they probably have spent a lot of time on optimizing the renderer. 

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