|
gregf |
|
Ramtek's Trivia promoter
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reged: 09/21/03
|
|
Posts: 8589
|
|
Loc: southern CA, US
|
|
|
|
Send PM
|
|
Re: MAME 0.179
10/26/16 07:24 PM
|
|
|
>Or is it just in the Developmental Phase?
For time being, many of the associated pinball source files are for documenting roms that were dumped from pcbs that used roms for pinball games although some have visual DMD (dot matrix diodes) up and running as well.
>How would one get the Pinball Machines Working [in MAME]?
A thread from two years earlier might provide some insight with comments by some of the MAMEdevs (Ville, RB, OG, Robbbert) at the time. Keep in mind things have changed and maybe with different renderers and Lua script now supported in MAME, the comments and ideas then might be out-of-date. The simulation of physics for ball movement around playfield area has to be figured out and also the artwork visual render and layout support might need upgrading for pinball support.
Seeing the old thread dated from two years ago, it is interesting that handheld and table top games were just begining to be supported in waves of number of many handheld games being supported once the hardware was supported along with contributors able to dump contents from handheld pcbs, but it also helps when the cpu core for such handheld games is also emulated. It now seems to be no problem with number of Fidelity chessboard games being supported these days (I believe pieces movements are handled by Lua script) compared to a couple years ago. It will probably be same thing where one or two factors come together at same time and pinball will be possible. Hard to say when that will happen.
|
|
Index 
Flat 
Re: MAME 0.179
Reply
