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Haze:

People 0-day warezing the latest PC-based arcades will make MAME, an arcade emulator focused on emulating older titles at hardware level in entirely cross-platform code obsolete?

Pull the other one, or get a clue.  Your choice.


DJ_Izumi:


--- Quote from: Haze on January 24, 2010, 04:51:11 pm ---People 0-day warezing the latest PC-based arcades will make MAME, an arcade emulator focused on emulating older titles at hardware level in entirely cross-platform code obsolete?

Pull the other one, or get a clue.  Your choice.
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The very first sentance of my post was: "Not obsolete with classic games but new ones."  Speaking of 'Get a clue' that is.

Havok:

** Yawn **

Another fighter game...

Shame it's not something with a shred of originality...

Gorotsuki:

It's pretty cool stuff indeed.
The cat girl is interesting.
I'm still trying to learn all her moves.

Haze:


--- Quote from: DJ_Izumi on January 24, 2010, 05:12:41 pm ---
--- Quote from: Haze on January 24, 2010, 04:51:11 pm ---People 0-day warezing the latest PC-based arcades will make MAME, an arcade emulator focused on emulating older titles at hardware level in entirely cross-platform code obsolete?

Pull the other one, or get a clue.  Your choice.
--- End quote ---

The very first sentance of my post was: "Not obsolete with classic games but new ones."  Speaking of 'Get a clue' that is.

--- End quote ---

but your choice of subject was purposefully inflammatory.  It's this kind of bulls**t that gives 'emulation' a bad name.  It has nothing to do with MAME, or emulation.  It's not about to make either obsolete.  This thing doesn't document any hardware at all, and is entirely about pirating the latest games.  There are completely different goals involved and MAME will continue to do what it does regardless of platforms or systems being emulated.  Maybe it makes MAME 'obsolete' to you, but to people with an interest in the actual hardware and seeing things done properly it has no impact whatsoever.

I can tell you first hand that the only result of this is that arcade manufacturers will end up spending more money on security for their latest games, and less on the games.  The net result being that reliability will decrease (more custom tamper-proof hardware as security), cost will increase, the quality of the games will decrease, and when it comes to emulating them properly later things will be much more difficult.  This isn't like when a console gets cracked, the arcade manufacturers will simply increase their security measures for each new machine, and because they're shipping the entire hardware for the game it's not hard to do.



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