How I Dumped an Arcade Game for MAME

Re:How I Dumped an Arcade Game for MAME by stevage on Saturday October 29, 2022 @06:55PM (#33388787)

Such work to enable people to play a slightly older version of an obscure arcade game. I guess all the low and medium hanging fruit was long since picked.

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Re:How I Dumped an Arcade Game for MAME by anikom15 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @09:35PM (#33389998)

Work on obscure games sometimes trickles down to get the more popular stuff working or improved. Popularity of a game doesn’t much correlate to its functioning or accuracy. The starry background in Galaga was broken for years. Sometimes the mamedevs just don’t have a way of fixing a problem (encryption, missing dumps) or the performance isn’t there yet (N64, consoles since the PS2).

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Re:How I Dumped an Arcade Game for MAME by pvg on Saturday October 29, 2022 @10:03PM (#33390231)

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:How I Dumped an Arcade Game for MAME by LukeShu on Saturday October 29, 2022 @11:17PM (#33390679)

FWIW, I didn't interpret the parent post as a dismissal.

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