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mccoy178:
Some of the zinc games are really great.  Tetris Grand Master in mame has a sound issue were the warning siren never quits once it starts.  In zinc that problem is fixed.  It's my favorite game to play with anyone that visits because unlike regular Tetris, you can affect the other player.  Play that and see if you don't think zinc is worth it.  Not to mention Todjemno Crisis or whatever the name of that goofy game is.

AE35:

I don't there's any question about it. We need this in regular MAME, as an
option. Maybe so you can set it for each game, on or off.

Nicholas

mccoy178:
There is only about forty games.  I know that forty can be an aweful lot for this project, but it's not a couple hundred at least.

Silver:
Just to clarify, all the games that zinc plays are actually in mame.

Zinc's great (since they fixed the 2nd player 6th button bug!), and I think there is actually a lot of to and fro between zinc and mame (At least recently - zinc start out on its own as a PSX emu I think). For example, a large speed up boost for the already zippy zinc can be achieved in system11 games by replacing the sound renderer posted by RB here:

http://www.bannister.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=24;t=001789;p=1#000000

(This makes zinc give "Soul Edge @ 40 FPS in-game with sound on a Celeron 1.3 GHz"). This new sound rendered I believe is taken from Mame and is faster than the HLE or whatever stuff they had doing the sound before.


IMHO, I don't see the point of implimenting any of zincs 'features' in mame. Practically any frontend can launch zinc, and I'm sure there are several that will launch zinc instead of mame for certain games. What would you gain? Just use zinc when you want it.

I'd much rather see time/effort spend on slower/3D games that don't come across well in software emulation being "improved".

jcrouse:

--- Quote from: Silver on March 15, 2006, 02:24:16 pm ---IMHO, I don't see the point of implimenting any of zincs 'features' in mame. Practically any frontend can launch zinc, and I'm sure there are several that will launch zinc instead of mame for certain games. What would you gain? Just use zinc when you want it.

I'd much rather see time/effort spend on slower/3D games that don't come across well in software emulation being "improved".

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I agree 100%.

John

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