Not really a control question... but none the less...

[Inaba]

I've never read anywhere exactly why Tekken (and the subsequent Tekken series of games) are not emulated in MAME?

Does anyone have a technical explanation as to why?  

Are there any Tekken rom dumps and/or emulators out there?

[SirPoonga]

Zinc emulates a tekkan.

[TalkingOctopus]

Another option is to use ePSXe to play the tekken 1-3 playstation version.

[Inaba]

How faithful are the PS versions compared to the Arcade?

I'd really like to have a working Tekken 1 and 2 cab(s) in my home, but I don't want brain-damaged version of them.

If I could find a T1 and T2 cab for sale somewhere close by, I'd go buy it.

[SirPoonga]

In general fighting games in the arcade are fairly close to console version.  There may be slight differences in graphics and even slighter differences in gameplay.

[Lilwolf]

basically the arcade IS a playstation.  

[Howard_Casto]

I wouldn't go that far.  Mind you this is from a person that absolutely HATES the tekken series and I can tell a big diff between the ps1 version and the arcade.  Namely the arcade is faster because it had a slightly better processor and the home version looks better because of larger storage space.  

[grafixmonkey]

As for why it's not emulated in mame, I can't even run S.T.U.N. Runner on my p4 1.5...   maybe it's just not fast enough.  But then I guess there's Killer Instinct that's been too slow for quite a while too...  

I think the most likely thing is some company has asked them not to emulate it, or the hardware is too complicated.

[Howard_Casto]

Well the namco arcade sound chip isn't emulated yet(and never will be unless somone finds info on it), so ALL namco 3d arcade games lack sound at this point.  I think that's the biggest reason, although dancing eyes just got into mame (sans sound)  which runs on the same hardware as tekken/tekken2.  A person should also note that it runs at about 1/6th the speed it does on zinc, so it's kind of like crusin being added.  It's in there, but next to no-one can actually play it.  

[grafixmonkey]

I guess we'll just have to wait for some multi-terrahertz processors to come out, so we can play our old 90's arcade favorites.