> > mameworld forums left ztnet in 2003
>
> Yep. My mistake with this part. I knew KC and Roc had MW opting out, but forgot
> exactly when. I am fairly certain that MW was hosting Haze's older blog and Haze's
> blog kept getting pounded with everyone wanting to see CPS-3 updates. twisty had to
> pull the plug a couple times on Haze's MW hosted wip site to lessen bandwidth usage.
If it had the plug pulled it would have been because he was posting daily mame builds, not from usage of his blog.
>
> > and I don't remember exactly when Gridle gave up on the mame.net forums but I'm
> pretty
> > sure it was long before 2007, and the only other ztnet forum that could have gotten
> kiddie
> > traffic from it is Retrogames but they've been a corpse since before 2007, I don't
> recall
> > them getting a kiddie influx. There has really only been one kiddie influx ever,
> that was
> > cps2 (other than console emulation fights in the 90s, but I wasn't even around for
> those).
>
>
> I thought old mame.net was still around up until about early 2008 until Aaron Giles
> closed it.
The site might have been there but the forum wasn't open. Aaron didn't close the forum. Maybe Stiletto remembers dates.
> While CPS-2 was the biggest draw and maybe NEOGEO as a runner up, it seemed CPS-3
> was also fairly sizeable. iirc When Haze had a wip update with CPS-3 protection
> finally figured out, the comments section was somewhere between 500 to 700 comments.
> It was a sizeable number. This was before Haze and others could begin work on
> improving the emulation of CPS-3 hardware.
That's a big number for an emulation thread, I don't recall the size. The system had all of 1 hit (3rd Strike). CPS2 had countless hits, and was active during a more popular era for arcades.
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