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| cadis12:
I have an idea for a simple game that would go along with the theme of my arcade cabinet. Has anyone ever pursued having a MAME game built? Do they make any programs to create a game? Are there people for hire to create a game? :dunno I just thought it would be cool to have a personalized game that went along with my theme. |
| knave:
I am not a programer...so I don't know what is involved with the code to write a rom. But it almost seemd you could have someone design a game in any language that is set up to use arcade style controls and build a cab around. That's much easier than to write a rom that will then be emulated by mame. The emulation is just an unnesesary step at that point...just run it on the computer. my 2¢ |
| cadis12:
Yeah, I hear ya. I just thought it would be cool to select the game from the list of other games without having to exit mame and lunch a different program. That would be an easier solution though. Your right. I just wanted a cheesy game created that would get a few chuckles out of freinds. Nothing to in depth. |
| unclet:
You might consider using a Mame frontend which supports starting PC games. I believe most all of them have the ability now. Your PC games will be listed just like a Mame gamelist so the user can scroll up/down and select one to play. This is what I do with my PC Games on my cabinet. |
| ChadTower:
You wouldn't write a "MAME game". MAME emulates circuit boards that run ROM images. You don't have the concept clear, I think. What you would want to do is write a game that runs on whatever OS you use, and then call that game from the front end you're using, just as MAME is called from the front end. Writing a ROM would mean writing a game to run on a processor that isn't even physically present... a really wasteful use of local computing resources. |
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