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Title: What does "protection wich isn't fully emulated" mean ?
Post by: rlemmon on August 24, 2005, 06:17:21 am

Hi. I was going to play turtles in time and it says that the game has protection which isn't fully emulated. What does this mean ? Is the game playable or

Title: Re: What does "protection wich isn't fully emulated" mean ?
Post by: 2600 on August 24, 2005, 07:57:24 am

It means the PCB, the board the game runs on, uses some sort of protection that MAME hasn't fully emulated.

Different games use different types of protection in different ways.

They are warning you there may be bugs, there may be glitches, it may even crash.  Some people notice the slightest bug, some don't.  Whether you notice or not they are warning you, don't complain if it doesn't work right.


MAME link to why and how games are copy-protected
http://www.mame.net/mamefaq.html#m02

Title: Re: What does "protection wich isn't fully emulated" mean ?
Post by: rlemmon on August 24, 2005, 11:12:55 am

thanks for the info 2600 :)