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isucamper:
Purpose
MAME is strictly a non-profit project. Its main purpose is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines. This is done both for educational purposes and for preservation purposes, in order to prevent many historical games from disappearing forever once the hardware they run on stops working. Of course, in order to preserve the games and demonstrate that the emulated behavior matches the original, you must also be able to actually play the games. This is considered a nice side effect, and is not MAME's primary focus.

http://mamedev.org/about.html

TOK:
I haven't bought that story since they added Direct 3D scanlines and other foof.  ;)

Jack Burton:

--- Quote from: isucamper on February 01, 2010, 05:48:30 pm ---Purpose
MAME is strictly a non-profit project. Its main purpose is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines. This is done both for educational purposes and for preservation purposes, in order to prevent many historical games from disappearing forever once the hardware they run on stops working. Of course, in order to preserve the games and demonstrate that the emulated behavior matches the original, you must also be able to actually play the games. This is considered a nice side effect, and is not MAME's primary focus.

http://mamedev.org/about.html



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That's just a load of BS.  They know exactly what they are doing.  Of course they have the need to appear academic in order to preserve the integrity of the project and not let it devolve into hundreds of hacks and add-on features, so the above statement is nice to use a a guideline. 

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: TOK on February 01, 2010, 07:16:04 pm ---I haven't bought that story since they added Direct 3D scanlines and other foof.  ;)

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I don't think anybody buys the foof of downloading 4000+ games in one go for archival purposes either, but you don't see anyone arguing that point.  ;)

DJ_Izumi:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on February 01, 2010, 10:45:52 pm ---I don't think anybody buys the foof of downloading 4000+ games in one go for archival purposes either, but you don't see anyone arguing that point.  ;)
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I always figured having huge collections like that detracted from the machine anyway.  A lot of arcade games afterall arn't that remarkable and if you have someone walk up to a machine with such a huge collection they'll be less likely to find something they'll enjoy as they scroll through the huge list.  Better to pluck out the golden ones and make it sort of a 'best of', at least if other people are going to be playing like house guests.

Even for gaming events based on consoles that I've done, we'd have someone with a bunch of CD binders with the games, letting people select their own games.  I found it's better to setup the games in advance and just put on the best stuff.  Maybe have a short list of what good games in what genres are available.  Few people would pull Time Crisis 3 out of the CD binder, but if you have the PS2 going with the Guncon's hooked up and it bellowing out in Attract mode 'VSSE has sent in two of their best agents', suddenly it's the coolest thing in the room. :D  You really want to get them to go 'OHHH!  That game!  Cool!' instead of giving them a laundry list of video game history.

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