Cabinet Choice
by
alister667
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Looking at this story I have to agree with Otaku - the XBox would be an ideal choice for a MAME cabinet, as it uses a standard TV out, has a HD, comes with controllers etc. Now how can we get the ported application? Can MAME be ported to the XBox without using the MS developers bundle? Will this allow XBox MAME to be released? Anyone have any ideas?
It's noticable that about 1 year after the same guy ported MAME to the PS2, there is still no way (I'm aware of) I can get MAME on my PS2 at home.
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We ARE the peat bog soldiers.
Re:The other way round
by
dasunt
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Weavus writes:
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.
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Looking at this story I have to agree with Otaku - the XBox would be an ideal choice for a MAME cabinet, as it uses a standard TV out, has a HD, comes with controllers etc. Now how can we get the ported application? Can MAME be ported to the XBox without using the MS developers bundle? Will this allow XBox MAME to be released? Anyone have any ideas?
It's noticable that about 1 year after the same guy ported MAME to the PS2, there is still no way (I'm aware of) I can get MAME on my PS2 at home.
We ARE the peat bog soldiers.
Weavus writes:
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.