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CoinDrop v1.3 Released - Now you can insert coins from your front-end!
dntaskwho:
Im having trouble getting it to work. I have it loaded and hear the coin drop noise when I press 5 or 6. So I select the game I want and mame loads. When the game starts no credits appear. Pressing 1 or 2 player does not do anything. Am I doing something wrong?
dntaskwho:
I don't understand why some people have a problem with this program. True it can be used for commercial gain which is wrong, but 99% of the people on this board are using illegal roms to play mame. The only difference is that they are not making money off of them.
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on December 28, 2005, 01:37:06 pm ---Anyway, I've never really bought into the idea that MAME is solely a "documentation project". Obviously that's part of it but I find it hard to believe that the MAMEDEVS don't also want to play the games. I think they stress the documentation side of MAME to try and give themselves some legal cover in the unlikely event they get sued at some point.
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This is a narrow minded idea. Just because it can play games doesn't mean that is its main purpose. There's plenty of software examples of this where the main purpose of the software is not the popular use.
If mame was about playing games it would be more like the kawaks, nebula, zinc, modeller, viva nonno, etc.. emulators. It would take advantage of computer's hardware. Mame emulates EVERYTHING, including the graphics engine the arcade game used. Go ahead, take zinc and play a game like strider 2 on a PIII 500, now play it in mame. Unplayable in mame at that speed. You can do the same with neogeo games. Try playing a neogeo game in mame on a PIII 500, barely get full frame rate. Now run kawaks or neoragex. There are many other examples where they could make it much more player friendly.
People with opinions like yours usually don't realize there are other arcade emulators out there that are much better for playing the games. It's because of this that retrocade stopped. Since mame is so popular now people didn't want to contribute to retrocade. But retrocade can run the games it supported better than mame (it didn't need a big computer to play them).
Anyway, here's comments that Haze (http://haze.mameworld.info/) has made on this board. Haze controlled the mame project for the last couple of years. He still develops but I think Aaron Giles is now who determines new releases.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=36710.msg337849#msg337849
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=37734.msg337151#msg337151
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=37734.msg338799#msg338799
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=37779.msg340653#msg340653
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=38190.msg346650#msg346650
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=38854.msg352453#msg352453
Crazy Cooter:
--- Quote from: headkaze on December 25, 2005, 12:29:35 pm ---If there is enough people who agree this program should not be released, I will remove it just let me know.
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Besides the MAMEdevs themselves, I also think it should be pulled down. It's been possible to do this in MAME for quite some time, it's just not worth having it around. the potential for abuse is too much.
Going with the gun thing... it would be like legalizing full-auto weapons. The bad things outweigh the good.
brophog:
--- Quote ---Going with the gun thing... it would be like legalizing full-auto weapons. The bad things outweigh the good.
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Or, instead of making silly laws for what amounts to a fancy slingshot, we could teach people to use their brains rather than running around chasing the infinite number of stupid things they could possibly do.
And of course, none of that is related to this program as this thread has sidetracked greatly.
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