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Firefox in mame(video on youtube)

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S0L:
Blimey, this crept up on me.

This has been one of the classic games I've always wanted to play, but something I've never seen in an arcade ever, and believe me I've looked.

This is where Mame excels, I doubt I'll see a working Firefox cab (I've not seen one so far by the merry age of 34, and I reckon the chances are only getting slimmer) but at least I've finally been able to experience it (even if it is like watching Wizard of Oz on a black and white TV!).

I understand when someone says 'It's not as good as the original' as that's very much how I feel about the Atari version of Star Wars, you can't beat sitting in that cab with the sound rolling around your ears and a vibrant XY monitor in front. The catch is sometimes you don't get to experience the original - or like me, you don't have the space to have an original cab (even if you can buy one!) then Mame is as close as you'll ever get.

As a developer myself, it's also allowed me to take a look at how they did it, and for 1984, thats some clever stuff. Even now I'm not sure how we'd be able to pull off seamless video switching on modern consoles when streaming FMV at full screen resolution.

So yes, finally had chance to play it :) If only Dave would get round to sending out my Star Wars yoke, I'll be able to try it as Atari intended!

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JackSparrow:
Ive got the original footage as an mpeg2 stream in its chronological order from the disk. It's very interesting to see how it plays out and see how the wizards at Atari (god rest their happy little souls!) did it.

Mach 3 was nothing, pah, overlaying a raster image on standard video footage which doesnt change, it was like turning wine into water doing that (Piece of P**S) but to make the technology of the day do what the Firefox cab did was a bit special.

So, it's not the most difficult game of its kind (It's star wars with pretty pretty pretty graphics) and a hell of a soundtrack..

and well worth the nostalgia trip :)

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