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Where do you play Mame game competitions?
TOK:
Mainly at my house... I built the first cab in my circle of friends, now there are three of them and one in the works. I still have the most machines (6), so my place is kind of the default. For a while, we were going crazy. What I originally wanted to do was have all of us share a hiscore.dat from a server. Never really got that working right even though we were all running the same version of MAME.
I then did a little spreadsheet type page with the high scores just for us. The thing is that there was never a game that everyone could agree on. Time Pilot was the only game that everyone even gave a shot, and Galaga was the only one where high scores were traded back and forth with regularity, and that was only between three out of the five of us. It was a lot of fun for a very short time though.
Here it is, if you want to look just for curiosity's sake, but it's going on two years without an update. The game list is lame because we were trying to get stuff everyone would try. http://hiscore.home.comcast.net
The way things usually go now is that I have one or two buddies over and we'll play the really fun multiplayer games like Golden Tee, Track & Field and some other stuff. There have only been a couple of times when everyone is over. Its a blast to have like five people over that are really into it. You definitely get that old school arcade feel going with multiple machines going and people yelling and laughing at the games.
Ummon:
Maybe I should've been more specific: where online do you play Mame comps? Or does in-person play take the place of this?
TOK:
--- Quote from: Ummon on July 17, 2008, 06:12:47 pm ---Maybe I should've been more specific: where online do you play Mame comps? Or does in-person play take the place of this?
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Not into it. Maybe try this. http://marp.retrogames.com/t
Ummon:
--- Quote from: TOK on July 17, 2008, 08:03:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ummon on July 17, 2008, 06:12:47 pm ---Maybe I should've been more specific: where online do you play Mame comps? Or does in-person play take the place of this?
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Not into it. Maybe try this. http://marp.retrogames.com/t
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Yeah, it doesn't seem a big thing except for MARP, and most of those folks are freaks of nature.
TOK:
I never had any luck playing back the .inp files. I actually really wanted to watch a couple of them, like a million point Defender game.
It's weird because I've configured multiple cabs with different front ends but I can never seem to get a playback to work. The closest I've come is having one load and getting kicked back to the desktop.
Is there a quick and easy way to playback .inp's from multiple versions of MAME? Like a MAME32 type thing that will play back .inp's from various versions of MAME by just clicking on them.