David Haywood
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MAME development veteran, responsible for the emulation of more arcade+console platforms than I have the capacity to remember.
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So yeah the news was that I've spent the evening working on a MAME driver for the Atari prototype Marble Madness II. It is now fully playable, although a few things still need to be verified.
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MAME is 25 today, yes today, not yesterday, so Happy Birthday MAME! I haven't been there for the entire duration of the project, but certainly the majority of it and it's been quite the ride.
@mamedev_org
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@TheNCSmaster
Switch games *just work* which is what I want in a console.
I put in a cartridge, I play the game. No installing, no internet requirement.
It *just works* and works *anywhere*
That's the main reason I use my Switch over the PC and PS5 I already have.
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People sometimes say that Congo Bongo ripped off Donkey Kong.
The reality is, it's basically a sequel.
Both were programmed by Ikegami Tsushinki, for Nintendo and Sega respectively.
Note the similarities in presentation (bonus counter etc.) due to it being the same developer.
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the TLDR for this is that they actually put a 'Genesis on a Chip' inside the cartridge rather than emulating the Genesis on the GBA.. which is fascinating in its own way.
Finally, after years of searching, I have obtained a GBA cart with a Mega Drive/Genesis emulator on it (thanks to Ankos!). I have been wanting to research this for some time after seeing it on YouTube, and it turns out it is far more interesting than I anticipated. 🧵(1/x)
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Osso has been looking into the emulation of the recently dumped "Mario Undoukai" in MAME, a redemption game from Banpresto, licensed by Nintendo, running on Seibu hardware. It currently needs a hack on the Card Pay status to boot and isn't yet properly playable.
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So yeah, I called libretro out on their hypocritical stance on stopping online bullying when they were a source of homophobic abuse towards Near. They blocked me. It's a PR stunt on their part, they're not serious about clamping down on it, they're complicit. Avoid LR/RetroArch
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One frustrating thing with emulation is the sheer amount of effort that gets put in to making something like MAME respectable in any given field, only for the masses to just want to throw money at projects like RetroArch for just rehashing ancient, buggy, versions of our work.
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@cultofthelamb
@devolverdigital
Honestly I think more developers should share this kind of thing after release, it gives some more insight into the industry (and may even give some budding developers hope if they see the stages their favourite games went through)
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With this dumped all known original versions of the Game & Watch library have been dumped. The games with melody ROMs still need a proper electronic dumping method, as they are currently constructed from output analysis, but this is another landmark in the Game & Watch story.
Dumping the program and melody ROM from the alternate version of the G&W tabletop version of Mario's Cement Factory which plays a different melody than the common version of the unit.
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It's fairly well known now, but the next MAME version will support 'Vampire' An arcade game published by Entertainment Enterprises, Ltd. (who also published Swinging Singles...) and developed by Brass International.
It is unknown if it saw wide release or failed location testing
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XingXing improved the video emulation so that Fearless Pinocchio is somewhat playable. It seems to run at the incorrect speed for now though (too fast, with stutter) and has no sound. The Phillips XA CPU I'm still working on emulating is probably used for the audio and I/O.
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In 6502 the hex value 'EA' is NOP. I feel this was a warning from the past.
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@dark1x
@PrnomNo05673639
And if something doesn't aim to be one of these, no matter how well it does otherwise it gets considered a failure in the AAA industry. Unrealistic target.
Streaming services don't help either, nobody buys. Digital also means buyers can't recoup costs.
Broken models all round.
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I was going through MAME additions from the past year to see if there was anything worth covering, and decided to run this.
It's a poker game, not yet playable but what the actual f... IGS
(previously dumped version had a CPU with internal ROM, this set uses external ROM)
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Sega's all-time classic Arcade game Bank Panic has been emulated for somewhere around 25 years, but it was recently discovered (by Pierre Cornier) some levels are meant to use an alt palette bank, with 1 colour changed, to show those stages as 'nighttime'
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Peter and Samuel got Mr Driller G decrypted. This was the toughest one yet, and is the last one of those currently available they'll be looking at. Point Blank 3, Taiko 3 and Taiko 5 do something much more evil with the device, and it doesn't seem possible to understand.
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Buriki still has more issues than most, at least during the attract sequence (title screen, martial art presentations, how to play) but I'm sure a lot of people will be happy to see this.
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This was my first week of sorts doing work for Limited Run Games, and the Carbon Engine team. It's been fun, and hopefully people here will see the results of that in due time.
I will continue to do MAME work where I can, but a lot of what is current is building for the future.
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Thanks to "Madov, Raki, Travis Goodspeed" the MCU on Taito's KiKi KaiKai was decapped and dumped. I hooked it up in MAME ( ) allowing for removal of the simulation code.
Interestingly not the same as the one used on Arcade Archives which looks hacked(?)
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One thing MAME 0.261 will support is Game-A-Tron's Crazy Mazey. While this will be marked as a clone of Pacman (as it's hacked from that) it's actually a little more. It introduces these doors, which block your movement (but only after corners weirdly)
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Did you know that Contra has never worked properly in MAME? Since it was first emulated there were game logic bugs making it play incorrectly. "furrtek" fixed them a few of days ago, I'll look at/discuss this fix on a stream later. (There are still some minor visual issues too)
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Can we stop painting the Yuzo team as victims here? Also stop confusing what they do with Game Preservation.
By doing so you're giving those of us who do care about preservation a bad name.
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So I've probably spent close to £800 of my own money in the last month picking up random plug and play devices etc. from Japan in order to study them for emulation purposes.
I believe this is the road to madness, but somebody has to care about this shit I guess.
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I've been going over my 2023 page ( ) where I throw up a bunch of pictures of MAME things that happened in 2023
It still amazes me that we got the first video game Nintendo developed+published emulated, and it was so unremarkable/dated nobody at all cared
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The ROM for 'Rebel Star' on the Super A'can has surfaced.
@DonKaleAEX
has been doing a lot of work on the A'can driver of late, bringing many games into a much better state.
Hopefully this will provide him with more evidence to further improve the emulation.
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MAME is not a dirty word. I've noticed a few reviews lately retroactively remove 'MAME' from ways you can play something, in favour of only naming streaming services they're sponsored by. I asked one why, and it was 'by request of a current license holder'
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@mogwai_poet
long term preservation of mobile / smartphone apps is an area where in 40 years we're going to look back upon with shame.
it's already really, really bad for the pre-android stuff, and not much better for early android / IOS
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I found another place the 'dynamic texture offset' feature is used - these billboards in Roads Edge. They told me I my scroll factor was double what it should be. Adjusted it and they show the correct animation.
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TeamEurope opened up a Tomy KissSite (Japanese CD based Karaoke video player) and dumped the ROM from inside of it.
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All I can really say is please, support the individual projects. Not only MAME, but all of the others out there. The real work is expensive, time consuming, challenging, and for the most part unrewarding as the majority of what needs preserving isn't headline material.
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It'll never cease to amaze me how futuristic cartridge based media feels, that's my main takeaway so far from owning the Switch. It. Just. Works. No download nonsense, no streaming nonsense, no installing nonsense, no 'always online' requirement just plug in a game and play it.
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Thanks to
@Recre_Piscis
the NMK110 MCU found on NMK's Double Dealer was dumped, it was a Toshiba TMP91640 (16kb ROM, 512kb RAM) that shares the entire system bus.
The previous simulation by
@DonKaleAEX
was incomplete, and the game had issues. It now appears to be functional.
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The parent (Japan, English) set of Shingen Samurai-Fighter from Jaleco has always crashed randomly in MAME. Turns out it was a delayed protection check that kicks in under various conditions.
The same code exists in the Jpn set, but the code might never be called there.
Fixed.
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MAME 0.225 is out Many improvements in this one, including an overhaul of core sound handling from Aaron, the new resampler makes everything sound nicer. I also put a list of relevant videos in the release thread on reddit.
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the next MAME release will see a 23 year old MAME bug with the emulation of Konami's Parodius fixed (thanks to hap for fixing and Cow for reporting)
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one that didn't fly under the radar quite so much is the dump of Beyond Kung Fu (IREM's Kung Fu Master 2) The game does seem complete, but the protection on it is very, very nasty, managing all the tilemap data (text, and some encrypted/compressed backgrounds)
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The dumped NMK-113 is interesting, as it seems to contain the code for 5 different games, and selects which codepath to use based on a port read. One of the paths appears to be correct for Hacha Mecha Fighter, so the protected sets of that work now too without a simulation.
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If you weren't aware, Raizing's "Armed Police Batrider" (not a licensed Batman game) has a character called B. Wayne
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Currently rendering almost 2 hours of footage showing the current state of the Hyper 64 emulation... this is going to take... a while.
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@PandaMoniumGR
Download the software, supply it with correct (best known) dumps. It either works or it doesn't work at that point.
People keeping bad old romsets around and posting said romsets online as 'rompacks' for ancient versions is where your problem mainly comes from.
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Gatekeepy McGatekeeperface gatekeeps +kills off another piece of my MAME work
Seriously, the guy just needs to get in the sea
It's meant to be an actively developed project, not 'must be in near final state to be included'
He has no understanding of MAME
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Finally fixed the majority of the 'using wrong texture' issues in Roads Edge and Xtreme Rally on the Hyper NeoGeo 64
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@OwenJones84
I do wonder why so many are celebrating a decision that is a massive win for the child grooming gangs.
Groom a child here, lead her into making a poor life choice, as a child, you win, you get to keep said child.
We've actually sunk lower than those who lured her away, scary.
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An apology was provided for previous behaviour/words. While that won't undo the damage they caused at the time, it shows progress going forward. Acknowledging prior problematic behaviour is the 1st step in making the scene a better place, so for now, a line is drawn under this.
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Woo, Happy Birthday to me, another year around a deadly burning space ball.
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was going through some old stuff when I found this rare unemulated system exclusive ;)
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I really don't know what to think of LibRetro's current stance against the bullying etc. that lead to Near's suicide, given that one of their main developers,
Squarepusher, was one of the abusers, stirring the hate, calling said person a 'Furry F*g' (you can find the posts)
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I fixed the floor rendering for the ring in Buriki One, video coming soon.
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Sean managed to dump the ROM from the main part of the Batman MAG game, inputs etc. don't really work yet.
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Also don't get me wrong, I do love MAME, I've dedicated 25 years to it and think it is/will be one of the most important projects of all time
It's just when you have a problem as big as Vas's mismanagement, it's important to speak out, because it risks serious harm to the project
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Jeff Willard Jr dumped the Sega System E arcade game Megumi Rescue. While the ROMs don't have Sega EPR codes they are marked 'Final Version' Much like the other Exa Planning game on Sys E (Riddle of Pythagoras) it uses a spinner for controls.
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Thanks to
@GamingAlexandri
hap, Sean Riddle and others the Compact Vision TV Boy will be emulated in the next MAME version. This is one of those where the cartridges contain an MCU with internal ROM for the games, rather than the CPU being in the system.
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So.. let's just say that 1942 has been incorrectly emulated in MAME for 20+ years. Fixed now tho. Our work is never done.
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After I've done with this batch of Hyper64 improvements you do realise I'll likely end up looking at a bunch of obscure stuff nobody is going to care about again, right? ;-) *stares in the general direction of Wheels & Fire - that one really shouldn't be marked as working*
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:p
(thanks to Windy for the trojan, Peter and Samuel for the math work, also Guru for running trojan on the PCB, and f205v for dumping the CDs)
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They're doing it for cash, $40k+ a month Patreon money.
Meanwhile I have to decide if I can budget spending £10 on something I might never see for again to make sure it doesn't drop off the Earth.
People paying an emulator for early access to current games is not preservation.
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MAME 0.268 is out. It includes support for the Fearless Pinocchio from IGS, Tehkan's rare field shooter Au, the final undumped numbered Hi-Kara cartridge, and a monumental waste of Laserdisc tech in 1991 in the form of quiz game Revelations
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These changes will also likely be in the next release. Currently only Taiko 4 has been decrypted. Taiko 2 and 6 both have CD dumps but not yet been decrypted (in progress)
CDs for Taiko 3 + 5 are still needed!
Everything for Taiko 1 is still needed!
If you can help, please do.
Oh hey I did come up with a solution that isn't as much of a hack. Too bad I just suck at the game though. There's also a few times, maybe 2 or 3 per song, where there's a small hitch still.
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I mean, they're begging for more monetary support on the back of being hacked, when they're already taking over $1000 a month. MAME has been around for 20 years and we've never had the cheek to ask for even a fraction of that.
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As I've said before this grading business is a scam. Anybody involved with it, even in the lightest possible way needs ejecting into the sun. It only causes harm, and in no way represents the value or quality. This is a *bootleg* they've decided is worth $4000, an illegal copy.
This is a great catch! WATA graded a reproduction! The original game doesn't have that dimple in the plastic case (zoom in to see it)
@eBay
should remove this listing.
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I still don't understand why some emulation communities will act like they support small developers, but always make an exception if it's emu devs.
Support screwing over somebody who made an indie game = you're going to hell.
Support screwing over emu dev = all good and fine.
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Thanks to sCZther, SSJ, Gaming Alexandria, TeamEurope a couple more GameKing 3 games were dumped (the GK3 being the rare 'colour' follow-up to the original GameKing)
The first is Diamond, a Boulderdash clone
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A Taito licensed set of Data East's Astro Fighter was dumped. It's possible this is the version from which the bootlegs were derived, as it has the fancy stars, which the original Data East sets lack, but all the bootlegs have.
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@itwhiffed
I showed this to a profoundly colourblind friend and their response was
"That's insulting, we're colourblind, not braindead. It would be like taking me to read Wetherspoons menus instead of going to an art gallery"
so maybe that's why... (also asked if it was meant to be a joke)
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Mastodon appears to be more like Discord, but for 'Tweets' rather than conversation. I dislike Discord. The reason I'm on Twitter is because I get to see things being shared that maybe I ordinarily wouldn't have seen in a closed off circle/community. Sadly it's no replacement.
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When you love retro, love MAME, can't see yourself doing anything else, but have to deal with Vas' levels of bureaucracy on a daily basis....
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Out of respect for Near the stream I was planning for tonight is cancelled. There are more important things to focus on right now than watching me play some games in MAME. Often bullied just for having high standards, by people who couldn't read between the lines, this is tragic.
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So.. Epoch Cassette vision status. I've done a preliminary disassembler for the CPU (can still be improved and squashed down) added a Software List, converted the program ROMs into a more suitable format (address order, not execution order) and added a simple GFXdecode.
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AJR and Olivier Galibert did manage to get the Akai MPC3000 showing something, and even getting to a main menu after a long wait failing to find SCSI devices. This is important because the HNG64 sound system basically comes from one of these, it's the same CPU, DSP etc.
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@Stealth40k
It's a more traditional line-up. Spin-offs of popular IPs, lesser known IPs being given a spotlight; lower budget games packed with fun. Closer to the good old days of gaming.
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I am planning my own Livestream looking at 25 Years of MAME from my point of view (so for the 22 years I've been contributing, pick out something I've contributed for each year) Not sure when I'll have time for it though, was meant to be at the weekend, but that didn't happen.
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I made some fixes to the sprite scaling accuracy for MAME's Hyper NeoGeo 64 emulation
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Don't forget to kill Santa this Christmas (Boogie Wings arcade from Data East) MAME's emulation of the game is quite lovely these days.
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The current state of Hyper NeoGeo 64 emulation is likely the state you'll see in the next MAME version anyway. There are minor improvements from any videos that have been posted.
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As I always seem to end up in arguments about this. PSA: If you buy 'repro' carts that are made using components from 'less popular' original carts, then you're actively supporting and making viable a highly destructive, parasitic commercial bootlegging industry. Don't buy those.
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TeamEurope dumped a TIMETOP GM-228 which is a VT NES clone. For some reason I have to force the 'alt 4bpp tile mode' as it explicitly turns it off. It actually only contains 6 games, not 25 (other games are level selects for each game) but this Magic Gate I think is new to this.
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If we're talking preservation, then obtaining cartridges for rare systems such as this is vital. They might not be as fragile as disk or tape based media but they're still super obscure, barely remembered and destined to be lost forever without efforts to get them dumped+emulated
Mail day arrivals. Got two more undumped Bandai RX-78 carts to get preserved. Huge thanks to
@Nate_Lockhart
@ssjbrollyus
and
@alanswx
for funding these. If anybody else is interested there are a few more carts missing that are available we can purchase and get dumped.
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Namco's Alpine Surfer was redumped, and now runs in MAME. Previously it was thought to be a protection issue when it was just a bad dump all along. hap also fixed some (but not all) graphical issues
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Jorge Silva dumped the arcade version of Sun Mixing's Super Bubble Bobble, an obviously unlicensed, but very good version of Bubble Bobble running on Megadrive clone hardware. The MD version is one of the reasons I wrote HazeMD back in the day.
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Windy Fairy (
@_987123879113
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Emulator developers are small creators too, we don't exist to simply be walked all over, or banned if we speak out against people who are walking all over us. We don't exist to be banned because you don't like the direction we've taken our projects etc.
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The Senario 'Video Extreme' 50 in 1 unit was also dumped, this one wasted a Speed Racer license on simple title screens for common games that weren't even reskinned.
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This appears to be what happens if you give Japanese arcade developers a near unlimited budget to create a Rock, Paper Scissors game. It will be supported in the next release thanks to Phil Bennett + others.
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@Wario64
Hopefully somebody will keep tabs on which games use it, so that I can avoid buying them (I say this as somebody has probably 500 physical Switch games at this point)
@NintendoAmerica
/
@NintendoEurope
DENUVO WILL COST YOU CUSTOMERS
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the MCU dumped from Thunder Dragon (also marked NMK-110, but different ROM) was hooked up too. Not such a big deal as there is a fully functional unprotected set, but still nice to see this run without the messy simulation code.
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@Moskaato
@TheNCSmaster
Yeah, there are a good number of Switch games like that, or only a tiny update
Means I'm not forever having to juggle installs around to make room or hoping WiFi is good for downloading
Some companies (esp AAAs) still take the piss with big updates, but those are easy to avoid
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More shots from Top Driving. In addition to ClawGrip, I should also give credit to Museo del Recreativo and
I dub this one Blombier Car
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We're breaking new ground in different areas all the time, in a scene that somehow sees 20 year old versions of our work running (badly) on weak hardware as more valuable than that. The disconnect between level of work, how much we're giving back, and support is out of this world
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Some screenshots from the person responsible for getting these working in MAME
Happy April 1st. In next month's MAME 0.254 release there will be 5 playable Namco System 10 games:
Mr. Driller 2 (JP/World)
Chocovader Contactee
Star Trigon
Kono e Tako
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