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Considering the fact that most 80s video game makers are in Japan and Japan is big on Karaoke, yes, that statement is correct.

However, Technos Corp. did Double Dragon.

For a list of games by Taito Corp, check out mame.dk

Check out the MAME project (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) get the program at the official site here. And get some (illegal) roms at a rom site, like this one here.

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However, there are excellent Playstation (1) and Saturn versions, as well as a Jap-only Dreamcast version which you can play online.

Why has there been no input from King of Fighters freaks yet?

WEC Le Mans 24hrs, which according to this page dates back to 1986 (suddenly, I feel very old) had a cabinet shaped like a rotating saucer, which you sat in with a steering wheel. It was mounted on pistons, and if you drove over the kerbs would jolt "baduhm-baduhm"...

As far as I can make out from their website, Immersion's earliest patents only go back as far as 1989.

You may not like that, or somehow feel it's wrong. But the companies don't care what you or I think.


Ah, but the problem with that is no company has ever succeeded in eliminating a market.

Despite the fact that Midway wants to sit forever on those old games and never let them see the light of day again, just so that they can sell more 'Mega-Super-Fighter-Alpha-Zero' machines, there is still a market for those games.

Thus, right or wrong, grey or black markets spring up. In this case, the grey market for abandoned games isfairly benign and beneficial to everyone without hurting the original developers. (They can't money off it anyway, so the only way it 'hurts' them is by taking the rom out of their control'.

In other cases where a demand for an illegal good or service, the black market can be much, much more scary. Just ask child prostitutes or 3rd world kids who are raised or sold to organ farms.

I know it's not the same thing as playing on a real cab, but since there appears to only be 3 left in existence...

http://www.mame.dk/gameinfo/arcadecl

The screen shot is of Super Centipede, but it is the same game. And it has been supported in MAME for quite some time. Check it out!

The DVD includes the cut love scene.

The video game is available for MAME.

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Apart from that, i'm sure Microsoft have put in plenty of other measures to stop people emulating the Xbox on a PC. BIOS checks, DirectX differences, Stripped OS etc...

Sorry. There is only one console that I know of that's a bitch to emulate on the PC, and that's the lowly NES. Not the N64, not the SNES, but the original 8 bit NES, and that was due to mapper support. No NES emulator that I know of has full mapper support, bioNES, fwNES, and NESticle were the best when I was in the emulation scene. Arcade games also tend to be a pain, due to anti-piracy measures implimented in a few of the games, and the relative scarcity of arcade games when compared to most console games. The Atari Jaguar has also been slow to be emulated, although I don't know if this was due to technical difficulties or a lack of interest.

That being said, the following have been successfully emulated on the lowly PC (running DOS/Win for the most part): Arcade (which is technically many different platforms, even if the systems are JAMMA compliant, they have different hardware. MAME roms alone list over 3000 games (including clones, and there are other multi-arcade emulators out there). The NeoGeo (some games that have been successfully emulated by MAME) adds a hundred or two more. Looking at old school stuff, the C64, Amiga, and Apple II have all been emulated, according to Zophar, as well as the Trash-80's and Tandy's. For consoles, we have Atari, ColecoVision, Dreamcast, SMS/Gamegear, Intellivision, NES, SNES, N64, Dreamcast, Playstation, Saturn, Turbo Grafix 16, and the Vectrex, among others. The Gameboy, and the NeoGeo pocket has also been emulated (as well as the aforementioned Game Gear, which is really a SMS with better graphics). We also have both HP and TI calculators emulated.

With all of this emulated, I don't suspect that Xbox will be that much of a problem, especially with the demand for an emulator that we will see.

MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)

(To the culturally deprived, its an emulator for arcade machine ROMS. You can play thousands of games from Donkey Kong to Bubble Bobble to Mortal Kombat. And you're not even limited to x86 platforms.)

Can't install games onto your work PC? Just run/boot off of your portable game cdrom.

Try these links:

MAME Homepage

MAME32 Homepage (MAME with a GUI menu)

An Arcade ROM Repository

Use Google to get you more ROM websites.

I really need to cook up one for myself. I like the idea of booting Linux and going straight to MAME, but it would eat CD-R space that could be used for more ROMs. Then again, booting Linux would let me setup a RAMdisk, which may help MAME deal with disk write issues. (There may be a M$ Windows utility that will create a RAMdisk without rebooting the OS.)

Last of all, a tip. Do your configuring on a CD-RW disk, get the written size under 50MB, and then burn the final ISO onto the business card CD-R.

Have fun.

For the reasons already explained in another post, plus the site is the worst offender when it comes to annoying popups and requirements for clicking on a million links before reaching anything meaningfull.

For real info on building your own cabinet go to:

http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade.htm

For the latest arcade ROMs go to :

http://mame.dk - This is the site the arcadeathome guy tried to eliminate from the face of the earth.

Open Source fans might not get to close to this one. MAME loses a great deal of its appeal without mostly illegal ROMs to use on it. (There might be some legal ones, but the majority aren't.) And although most of the ROMs might seem like 'abandonware', it is taking away modern-day money from some commercial releases. (No one thought circa-1995 machines could do arcade emulation til the Williams Arcade Pack came out.) Some of the coolest things I found for my "new" ps one and my Dreamcast are multiplayer classics like Gauntlet, Super Sprint, and arcade Warlords.
Something like MAME for Xbox is a double threat, bridging the PC/Console divide.

<karmawhore>On the other hand... mame.dk is a helluva resource.</karmawhore> It's almost as good as Killer List of Videogames for screenshots, and better for other reasons...

Seems that mame.dk has suffered the wrath of efront. Seems that they are down.

Course, it's possible that someone said that, but wasn't modded up, for which I apologize.

Yes, those were the good ol' days. Now I can't stand more than 30 seconds on modern games without knowing 300 secret moves.

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Okay, I'll admit it. I'm crap at all these new fangled games. Left-right-fire, no problem. But these modern ones where you have to survive a massive onslaught for weeks on end before you can get remotely close to a save point are just getting silly (psx, that's you I'm talking about).

I feel rather peeved when I get to a point when due to the combination of my crapness, and the games' company not documenting how to oomph up the fire-power and energy levels, I effectively have to dump the title.

Okay children, calm down, I know I should keep practising. But my somewhat convoluted point being that I only get to see a small portion of the software I've purchased, and I know I ain't alone. The net effect is that I rarely bother with new games, and mooch around mame.dk when looking for pixel entertainment.

So how about the games' manufacturers adding a fsck me you're crap level to the 'ard, even 'arder and must be 13 years old levels?


cat /dev/null > /dev/brain

3) -- A side scrolling RPG/action game where you had to go through forty levels to get to the top of a mountain. The main thing I remember about it is that you could get an NPC to follow you around, who would attack when you would attack -- there were like 6 different ones, from a ninja that tossed stars to an archer, to a wizard. Anyone know the name of this? About 1990-1991 when it came out.

I believe the game you are looking for is Capcom's Magic Sword, which runs beautifully with MAME.

Does anyone remember the name of the game where you were this warrior, 2-d scroller, walked down the hallway with this shield, which you could turn into the SUPER MEGA SHIELD by slamming the joystick up and down repeatedly, and you fought other warriors at the end, knocking parts of their armor off until you hit a vital point?

Sounds like Taito's "Gladiator". You can download the ROMS for use with MAME and see for yourself (it plays great in emulation).

cheaper than retail playstation @ $199 U.S. plus $19.95 (US) Allow 1-4 weeks delivery (Add $15.00 UPS 3 day shipping). Orders outside the US, shipping is $99US; but that entitles you to the fastest method of delivery possible (as in 1.5 days to Ottawa Canada, where I live)

I own one of these puppies. (I got my companie to spring for one too) Comes with 11 actual Capcom classic arcade games (emulated, not reproduced. you gotta "put in quarters") and its fully compatable with Mame, which lets you play any of the 2000+ Roms available to lawbiding citizens (Do you really own "Super BurgerTime (Japan)"? - type OK to continue)

..is they had to do more with less - the limitations of the technology in some ways enhanced the good games. You couldn't rely as much on eye-candy to sell the game.

I for one am very grateful for the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator and themame.dk rom archive -I can finally play these old games again.

Noooooo....!

Somebody moderate this down! www.mame,dk is the greatest site out there, and I don't want 'Them' to find out about it and shut it down!

Seriously though, if you like MAME, you'll love mame.dk

With old MacMAME on my mac. Now MAME32 for Win32.. I love it. Despite lots of new games I have, I play the old MAME one's more, like Elevator Action and hypercross and Track and Field and Spy Hunter, the list goes on. Note: you can get just about every ROM from www.mame.dk
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Mame.dk

The point being, Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator is available for many platforms (such as *nix - get XMAME) unlike Shockcrap, and the Shockcrap-recreations aren't true emulation like in MAME. I admit that they are very well crafted, but the feel just isn't correct and for example the sound is far from original. Actually, MAME emulates these particular games perfectly!

It would have been much more useful for them to release the ROMs to free redistribution, so that all MAME users could use them in good conscience. Now they'll just have to download the roms illegally or simply not play those games.

There are even two free games available for use with MAME. In fact, another one of them was previously owned by Midway, being Robby Roto. However its coder had quite a good contract - it said that when the sales of the game dropped below a certain level, the copyright would revert back to him. Being a good guy, he then released the game for free redistribution. The other free romset is Poly-Play, the only arcade game ever made in ex-GDR (East Germany), and thus there does not seem to exist a copyright holder for that piece of software anymore.

Other choice to get legal games for MAME is to buy the Hot Rod Joystick control panel which comes with a compilation of 14 good old Capcom arcade classics (such as 1941, Block Block, Commando, Exed Exes, Ghouls'n Ghosts, Magic Sword, Mercs, Section Z, Side Arms, Son Son, Street Fighter 2 HF, Strider, U. N. Squadron and Varth), which not recreations but actual ROM files that you can use with MAME. I'd love to see more people buy this pack - it would show the copyright holders that there actually still is a market for stuff like this.

..when you can play more than 2000 retro arcade game with the mame emulator. This run on linux, freebsd and a lot of other platforms and the all games are emulated orginals not remakes. Head over to http://x.mame.net/ and to http://www.mame.dk/ for all the roms.