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Srsly tho BIL, you couldn't tell man ass from girl ass? or did he have oddly wide hips?
MameHaze wrote:that's the thing thoDoctaMario wrote:What do you mean by "proper experience?" The thing is, people just want to be able to play games they like, and MAME is the conduit for that. I'm sure most people don't notice the emulation issues you do much like a non-audiophile isn't going to notice much of a difference between a mid range system and real high end one. They just know the music they want to listen to is able to be heard through the system.MameHaze wrote:[...]
If people are going to use MAME in RA it would be nice if they got the proper experience tho. We've had to deal with people packaging MAME incorrectly even outside of RA and with the direction MAME is heading it's only likely to become a bigger issue if it isn't addressed so I feel I'm being fair in pointing these things out.
Which isn't to say that your efforts aren't appreciated because as I'm sure you know, they are. It's just that you're talking about "proper experience" to a lot of people who just want to be able to play Third strike on their phone or whatever and are already able to do that with the cores provided.
MAME has never been about lowest common denominator 'ZOMG IT RUNS SF3'
MAME is a complex piece of software, and becoming more so each day.
If you're going to claim 'MAME' support then it's important that all aspects of MAME work, not only those that please the simplest of users.
we keep getting told that RA doesn't dumb things down, and that RA is the future etc. but evidence continues to suggest that RA really is only interested in things on surface level, going out of their way to please simple users while actually ignoring most of the deeper aspects or even slightly more complex use cases. As soon as I step outside of that simplest use case things start to creak and as somebody who has spent a large amount of time putting work into a piece of software to ensure that isn't the case it's a real shame to see that stripped away / ignored.
This is one reason I don't buy into the whole 'RA is the future' thing, it's also why I'm very weary of using other cores in RA because I've seen how much of MAME doesn't work how we intended it, it's a poor representation of our software at best.
I'm aware that's not the most popular of opinions, but I hope people at least can see my point of view. We don't develop MAME to be a toy, the advanced features it offers are what makes it (IMHO) an amazing piece of software, and they're why it's been around for near 20 years and why we're getting new developers working on it all the time (especially recently)
One thing that happened semi-recently is there was a big effort to make sure everybody's work was held in the same regard recently with the MESS merger (rather than shunting all that off into a separate program and treating the developers and their work like 2nd class citizens even if they were actually the ones doing most of the MAME work anyway) This has worked wonders for improving all aspects of MAME, but if RA really thinks they're the future they can't really just ignore all that or make things effectively inaccessible because that is what MAME is all about, and very much the future of MAME, that's what draws the crowd with the actual technical skills to take things forward.
It's often asked why MAME doesn't take on the RA/LR version of the code officially, and it's for reasons like this (amongst others) What's out there doesn't represent our project at all well, so isn't really something we can offer officially and fully believe gives users and developers the experience we want them to have. It's a similar reason to why the UI builds of MAME have never been considered official too (although you can use those like command-line builds at least if you want full functionality)
RBelmont wrote:A little math shows that if you overclock a Pi3 to about 3.4 GHz you'll start to be competitive with PCs from 2002. And you'll also set your house on fire
BryanM wrote:You're trapped in a haunted house. There's a ghost. It wants to eat your friends and have sex with your cat. When forced to decide between the lives of your friends and the chastity of your kitty, you choose the cat.
Crap, that's amazing. I love this.BIL wrote: The superpower to ingest truckloads of coke, beat the shit out of the cops and fuck every groupie in sight without dying of AIDS? I didn't know Ozzy and Lemmy collaborated on more than just the odd hit single!
>The Great Adventures of Snowflame
ChurchOfSolipsism wrote:I'll make sure I'll download it illegally one day...
On an unrelated note, the Master System port of Prince of Persia is... interesting.zhouluyi wrote:This is the footage used on the Avengers movie, the relevant part starts at 2m41s. This was used WITHOUT my knowledge by Marvel/Disney. I think they could at least drop me a line about it.
An idiot Internet journalist wrote:One thing that separates MAME from other emulators is the amount of games that usually come bundled with its downloads.
Most emulators just come with the software and leave it to you to pick up the games.
An idiot Internet journalist wrote:People have done this and made a lot of money by creating dedicated MAME machines and putting them in casing like this one here.
RBelmont wrote:A little math shows that if you overclock a Pi3 to about 3.4 GHz you'll start to be competitive with PCs from 2002. And you'll also set your house on fire
BryanM wrote:You're trapped in a haunted house. There's a ghost. It wants to eat your friends and have sex with your cat. When forced to decide between the lives of your friends and the chastity of your kitty, you choose the cat.
Dear Lord. I'm almost crying watching this at work hahahah.BIL wrote:Unexpectedly reacquainted with a beloved old favourite...
"WHO BITCH THIS IS?!"
One of the purest expressions of bewilderment and disgust ever caught on camera.
Strikers1945guy wrote:"Do we....eat chicken balls?!"
Man, you are in for a treat, then:Sumez wrote:I am probably the last one to realise this, but apparently Osamu Tezuka wasn't just all cutesy kid friendly stuff... I mean, I knew he was a lot more than Astroboy, and I was of course aware of a lot of other stuff he's made, like his take on Metropolis, etc. But this is really something else.
Cleopatra (1970) trailer (NSFW)
ChurchOfSolipsism wrote:I'll make sure I'll download it illegally one day...
Tell him to call Sandra Bullock.BIL wrote:Sat next to a chap on the bus home who wouldn't stop remarking that all this farmland and winding road was "wastin' fookin time" and the bus driver could get us home much quicker - if only he'd just point the bus towards the city centre on the horizon and floor it across untold acres of prized crops, grazing patches and stately homes.
I just really love the mental image of a bus driver doing this, carving a brutal yet undeniably efficient streak of ruin with matey in back nodding in silent approval.
"Could get deh in five minutes except all these farm fooks"
ChurchOfSolipsism wrote:I'll make sure I'll download it illegally one day...
ChurchOfSolipsism wrote:I'll make sure I'll download it illegally one day...
Well played, my good fellow.Sumez wrote:I respect it though. After all, it's all a matter of opinion.
ChurchOfSolipsism wrote:I'll make sure I'll download it illegally one day...
i still wonder whether atheist god ever got to experience duck tales in rgbSumez wrote:Opiniated Reddit posters like this
"the third tier is the "great" games that did not age well but were great in their time... Contra/Castlevania/Ninja Gaiden."
Well, yeah, those are great games. But they obviously have nothing on DuckTales, Capcom's flawless masterpiece :3
I respect it though. After all, it's all a matter of opinion.