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Title: Arcade EMU uestion
Post by: terryd on July 14, 2004, 01:54:46 am

I know there are a few different flavors of MAME in circulation, but I was wondering if anyone knows which version is most popular?    

Also, is there such a thing as as and Arcade emulator that supports all MAME supported ROMS which also uses hardware rendered graphics?  I know the goal of MAME is to accurately model the game and not for playability but I'm interested if there is a version whose goal is game play and not nesessarly be completely accurate.

Title: Re:Arcade EMU uestion
Post by: Generic Eric on July 14, 2004, 02:54:04 am

Quote from: terryd on July 14, 2004, 01:54:46 am

I know there are a few different flavors of MAME in circulation, but I was wondering if anyone knows which version is most popular?    

Don't know the answer to that

Quote from: terryd on July 14, 2004, 01:54:46 am

Also, is there such a thing as as and Arcade emulator that supports all MAME supported ROMS which also uses hardware rendered graphics?  I know the goal of MAME is to accurately model the game and not for playability but I'm interested if there is a version whose goal is game play and not nesessarly be completely accurate.

No.  Its just not the goal of mame.    

Title: Re:Arcade EMU uestion
Post by: screaming on July 14, 2004, 07:47:02 am

Quote from: terryd on July 14, 2004, 01:54:46 am

I know there are a few different flavors of MAME in circulation, but I was wondering if anyone knows which version is most popular?    

  It really depends on what you're looking for it to do.   There are reasons why there are different flavors of MAME:

MAME32 (http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32qa) - MAME, but with a Windows GUI

Advance MAME (http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/) - MAME, but with better support for arcade monitors

Misfit MAME (http://misfitmame.mameworld.net/) - MAME, but with support for a few more 'hacked' games

PacMAME (http://home.online.no/~mrroboto/pacmania/the-emulators/pacmame.htm) - MAME, but support for only pacman ROMs including hacked graphics versions

  There are a lot more out there too.. Check out MAMEWorld (http://www.mameworld.net/).

Quote from: terryd on July 14, 2004, 01:54:46 am

Also, is there such a thing as as and Arcade emulator that supports all MAME supported ROMS which also uses hardware rendered graphics?  I know the goal of MAME is to accurately model the game and not for playability but I'm interested if there is a version whose goal is game play and not nesessarly be completely accurate.

  No, there isn't.  But there's a project Raine (http://www.rainemu.com/) that will get you part of the way there...

-Steve