shihonage wrote on May 18, 2015, 03:33:
I bet that requires a ping of 30 or below to be even remotely playable.

Actually I've played it with connections of over 100 ms, and as long as youre not playing super competitive twitch fighting games, it works quite well. Played through a couple of the metal slugs with my buddy from alaska, and I've played through a couple games with folks from brazil and japan, with my 20mb cable internet here in the midwest, USA.

I bet that requires a ping of 30 or below to be even remotely playable.

Mordecai Walfish wrote on May 17, 2015, 15:44:
Played bubble bobble in an arcade down in Daytona Beach, Florida when I was a kid and was hooked, was always one of my favorite games for NES after I eventually got it for that.

MAME rocks, so much dedication and time put into making sure these machines are faithfully able to be emulated on machines of all sizes.

I'll have to check out this RetroArch/Kodi thing that was mentioned here as I already use Kodi with the 1Channel addon for watching shows & movies, but having a emulation frontend baked in would be awesome!


Also have to give a mention to my buddy who has been making MameHUB for a while now, which allows you to play most of the MAME/MESS library of games (even SNES titles!) online with friends:

http://www.mamehub.info/

MameHUB rocks. It needs to get bigger and more popular!!! We need more old school gamers so we can play Gauntlet, Rampage, Operation Thunderbolt, fighting games, etc.

Played bubble bobble in an arcade down in Daytona Beach, Florida when I was a kid and was hooked, was always one of my favorite games for NES after I eventually got it for that.

MAME rocks, so much dedication and time put into making sure these machines are faithfully able to be emulated on machines of all sizes.

I'll have to check out this RetroArch/Kodi thing that was mentioned here as I already use Kodi with the 1Channel addon for watching shows & movies, but having a emulation frontend baked in would be awesome!


Also have to give a mention to MameHUB, which allows you to play most of the MAME/MESS library of games (even SNES titles!) online with friends:

http://www.mamehub.info/


EDIT: Another link for those looking for the most up-to-date romsets for legal emulation (the complete mame romset is ratio-free, and always released alongside the new MAME binary releases):

http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk

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I always thought of Bubble Bobble as an NES game.

Tom wrote on May 16, 2015, 23:05:
Bubble Bobble rocked. I can still remember every note of the main music from that game...

I remember seeing it in my freshman dorm(itory) lounge. I liked it a lot.

Bubble Bobble rocked. I can still remember every note of the main music from that game...

Also waiting on garbear to finish his retroarch build of Kodi. Playing Bubble Bobble or SF2CE on the HDTV never gets old.

Its almost 20 years since Nicola kicked of mame. The open source thing is just a legal technicality. The source code has always been there for anyone who is interested to view and/or to contribute to.
There must have been hundred, if not thousands of contributers over the years. Would have taken a while to track them all down.
Should be in the next Civ game as a Wonder of the digital age.

Clever Caviar wrote on May 16, 2015, 18:04:

Ant wrote on May 16, 2015, 17:45:

ASeven wrote on May 16, 2015, 17:41:
MAME has come a long, long way. A great emulator that allowed me to relive a lot of my arcade life years, here's to more years of MAME.

Yep. I remember discovering emulators, like MAME, back in in college (mid (19)90s).

For me, I read about MAME in the back of a PC Format mag, when it was then supporting a whopping 9 games. Crazy.

IIRC, I read about emulators on Avault.com (remember that web site?). I was amazed in replaying Atari 2600, arcade, Apple 2, etc.

I wished more people played MAME online with MAMEhub (http://www.mamehub.info/) and very old arcade games (e.g., Gauntlet 1 and 2) though. Kaillera is too old like me. They were pretty awesome when old school gamers played!

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Ant wrote on May 16, 2015, 17:45:

ASeven wrote on May 16, 2015, 17:41:
MAME has come a long, long way. A great emulator that allowed me to relive a lot of my arcade life years, here's to more years of MAME.

Yep. I remember discovering emulators, like MAME, back in in college (mid (19)90s).

For me, I read about MAME in the back of a PC Format mag, when it was then supporting a whopping 9 games. Crazy.

Ant wrote on May 16, 2015, 17:27:
I was surprised it wasn't already under open source license.

As a project it operated quite closely to a regular open source project, in terms of allowing external code contributions, even without central copyright assignment. It's just that the license contributors agreed their code would be released under had a bunch of restrictions that made it fail to meet the open source bar, like disallowing commercial use.

Switching the license involved asking everyone with copyright on the code for consent. Having been involved in similar things in the past I'd be really curious to see the stats of how long that took and what percentage of the contributor base they were succesful in contacting. Considering the age of the project and what I'd expect to be a fair number of pairs of hands, it'd be remarkable if they didn't have any code left in limbo.

ASeven wrote on May 16, 2015, 17:41:
MAME has come a long, long way. A great emulator that allowed me to relive a lot of my arcade life years, here's to more years of MAME.

Yep. I remember discovering emulators, like MAME, back in in college (mid (19)90s).

MAME has come a long, long way. A great emulator that allowed me to relive a lot of my arcade life years, here's to more years of MAME.

Sho wrote on May 16, 2015, 17:05:

Aero wrote on May 16, 2015, 14:41:
I bet that's some really interesting code.

It's worth noting that the MAME source was always visible, just not under an open source license.

I was surprised it wasn't already under open source license.

Aero wrote on May 16, 2015, 14:41:
I bet that's some really interesting code.

It's worth noting that the MAME source was always visible, just not under an open source license.

I bet that's some really interesting code.

mame is a fantastic emulator, if anyone is interested, but not tried it.

So this is based on the musical?