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MAME Ported to (Chipped) Xbox

Posted by timothy on from the please-confirm-over dept.

metallik writes: "A version of MAME for the Xbox game console has just been released. This release will only run on Xbox consoles equipped with a mod chip. MAME is the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, one of the more successful open source projects out there. It emulates over 3800 arcade machines, from Space Invaders to Mortal Kombat III, many of them perfectly. This is probably only the first of many such PC software projects to be ported to modded Xboxes. At $199 (plus modchip), the Xbox will soon be an extremely attractive set-top box (if not for the reasons Microsoft wanted it to be...)" A while ago, we posted about getting MAME to run on a developer-kit Xbox, but since mod chips are now available, this sounds like a more practical approach. Update: 06/23 18:40 GMT by T : Note: Thanks to Santeri Saarimaa for a note that the project is now hosted here instead.

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  1. Re:Dreamcast Gets No Love, As Always. by t0qer · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I can't believe all these "Poor sega, poor Dreamcasts" Post i'm seeing. Now i'm not going into a flame here, I just want to point out some facts.

    Fact #1
    Sega has no consumer loyaltee because they discontinued every system they ever released in the past as soon as a competetor released a better system. We saw sega drop the master system when 8bit Nintendo came out. We saw them drop the Genesis, and 32x when the Super nintendo and XF chip(starfox) came out. We saw them really run away with their Saturn when Sony made the Playstation. Their last coup de gra was the dreamcast, which after just the announcement of the N64, Xbox, and PS2 was dropped. I don't support companies that drop support of their systems at a drop of a hat.

    Fact #2
    The DC mame emulation is SEVERELY limited. I know the author of mamedc (Christophe Thibult of kaillera fame http://www.kaillera.com) hasn't got a lot of time to work on it because of his work constraints (-C if your reading this, kick ass on WA3!!) Anyways your point is moot because the mamedc only supports 11 games. 11 GAMES! While mamex supports the entire mame romset!

    You sound to me like many of my other friends that went out and bought a DC and fell victum to sega's chicken shit tactics. No DC is not that great IMHO and running 11 mame games isn't enough reason for me to spend 50 bucks. Check your facts before you post this bleeding heart (towards sega) bullshit.

    --toq

  2. Re:Dreamcast Gets No Love, As Always. by t0qer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How about I throw that kind of logic back at you?

    Sega did everything WRONG with the DC. Free included modem(But you had to shell out an arm and a leg for a POS NIC), great price(isn't the reason it's $50 now because it's discontinued?Wasn't it $250@release?), great games(PS2,XboX,N64 have em). Its thier fault (for not doing what) Sony (did),blitzes the minds of the average MTV watcher with ads every 2 seconds. The DC was discontinued due to bad sales(and horrible marketing), not bad technology or games(If you actually READ my post, you would see I was crapping on their marketing the whole time).

    Hope you get modded DOWN. They need a new mod type of "Replier didn't read parent comment"