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DJ_Izumi:
Ya know, I'm not trying to argue for MAME's obsolesense, just the awesomeness of of arcade code running native in Windows without the need of waiting for MAME to emulate it in 15 years or needing a hell of a lot of CPU power to do it.  (Well, 'a lot' comparatively speaking)

I just think it's pretty damn cool.

Havok:

--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on January 31, 2010, 03:54:57 pm ---No, your main problem is you don't understand the point of MAME.

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Exactly - it's about preservation, not zero day gaming.

DJ_Izumi:

--- Quote from: Havok on January 31, 2010, 04:47:45 pm ---zero day gaming.
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Ya know, there are games 5+ years old running on PC hardware, right?

Havok:

--- Quote from: DJ_Izumi on January 31, 2010, 05:15:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: Havok on January 31, 2010, 04:47:45 pm ---zero day gaming.
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Ya know, there are games 5+ years old running on PC hardware, right?

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Artistic license used for emphasis - and when we're talking about 25+ year old games, comparatively speaking, it holds. Besides, I like the phrase - I made it up!

 ;D

DJ_Izumi:

--- Quote from: Havok on January 31, 2010, 06:36:36 pm ---Artistic license used for emphasis - and when we're talking about 25+ year old games, comparatively speaking, it holds. Besides, I like the phrase - I made it up!
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No you didn't.  The term 'Zero Day' has long been associated with piracy.  Google 'Zero Day Warez' for example.

Not all of us are interested in 25 year old games, some of us are more interested in the 90s, late 90s and early 00's which is where MAME fails hard.  In a lot of places there are very few arcades around or arcades with decently maintained machines.  I primarily use console ports to get my more modern arcade fix which works well, but then by 2003 or so a lot of arcade games didn't get any ports to console or PC.  I'm extatic to see After Burner Climax coming to Xbox Live Arcade for this reasons.

In the upcoming years I'd like to be able to play some more modern arcade games that I can't go to an arcade and play so this interests me.  It's a modern machine executing native code in Windows, it's cool and very promising.  I don't get why some of you are acting as if this emotionally threatens you or something.

That said, even if running any Taito Type X/X+/X2 game becomes possible, the game data will be hard to come by.  There are still Sega NAOMI games that no one's dumped afterall.  (One day Sega Strike Fighter, I will play you!)

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