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HowardC MAME Fan Reged: 05/15/04 Posts: 177 Send PM Re: DU Update: And now, Weekend Update with Smitdogg Jones 11/11/12 05:54 AM Reply > The best only way to preserve them is get them in a mame skeleton driver. Not really imho. They aren't arcade games... there's nothing to emulate... they are pc games. I mean do you really want to bloat mame/mess with a windows xp emulator at this stage of the game? As I said, years from now it will be more doable, but not at the present time. Even when the time comes it STILL makes more sense to just write loaders because... well... they are pc games. I think the type-x games are the best example of this. It was trivial to get them running on a normal pc and you can find em all over the net and will continue to do so. Now if you are talking about the more ancient games that run on the equivelent of a 486 then sure, but the high level ones are a ways off. MAME would be so slow running them that it would be tedious to even write a driver. Instead of focusing on newer games, it might make more sense to focus on the ancient ones. I'm talking EM games and EM hybrids. They are more expensive, and it's a bigger pain in the butt (in most instances you'd have to buy the entire game, not just a circuit board) but these types of games are fading fast and as of yet there is NO effort to preserve them... pinball excluded of course. Most of them are so primative that it wouldn't take much to make an emulator/simulator. They just need to be carefully taken apart, have the artwork scanned and have their "trace boards" scanned as well as the speed of movements documented. I think 18 wheeler is a good example of this. It's already emulated pretty well in mame.... we just need a scan of the road surface and lamps and some 2d/3d models based on the truck. Then it's just a matter of exploiting the artwork system and setting up some virtual switches and you've got a really good approximation of a game most people will never get the chance to play.

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