MAMEWorld Forums - News - TeamEurope: Decapping is a FunWorld #4

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>> > I did a reverse image search for the photo in the page, and it came from
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> http://www.alpenspektakel.at/musiker.php
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> > What a strange choice for an image edit.
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> This will be interesting to find out if that photograph is actually the same person
> that worked for Fun World and hid a message within the rom/binary data file that is
> used with the Fun World pcb.
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>IT'S. APRIL. 1.

That was my first guess, but your reverse image sleuthing work impressed me that I changed from possible practical joke to "maybe it wasn't a gag afterall".

I am glad I wasn't one of the excited Sega Model 2 "emulated in MAME jump-for-joy" users when Gridle pulled that April 1st 2002 bit on old MAME.net site. That had to have been best emulation April Fools joke pulled ever. It certainly got lots of users then upset once they found out it was a stunt by Gridle with those emulation/ photoshopped captured game screen images that fooled lots of users that day. :-)

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Re: Model 2 WIP - extra credits
04/18/14 08:24 PM

..for any of the long time emulation followers that remember the 2002 April Fools joke that Gridle had pulled with Model 2 wip update on old MAME.net web site.

For those that had never visited old MAME.net web site, the site maintainer "Santeri S. / Gridle" would type up MAME wip moments so users could see what was completed over a few days and maybe what to expect in a future MAME release. For April Fools day in 2001 Gridle did a light-hearted wip update that made fun of MAMEdevs, but it was clever and well done without getting users upset.

For April Fools day MAME wip update in 2002, Gridle had posted a Model 2 emulation update that showed 'doctored' images of Model 2 games running in MAME. The chat forums were filled with lots of over-excited fans waiting to try Model 2 emulation in a future release of MAME. When it was discovered later in the day that it was an April Fools prank by Gridle, there were several upset "kidz" that were dismayed that it was a joke by Gridle. A few posted swearing so the forum had to be cleaned up with a few posts having to be deleted.

Model 2 games were not emulated until another few more years had passed...maybe around 2004 or 2005 iirc.

I thought it was a clever April Fools stunt that Gridle pulled in 2002, but not a surprise that some users were to react like that regarding the 2002 April Fools prank of Model 2 being emulated because in 2001 when CPS-2 was first emulated by using XOR files created by Razoola there was huge excitment because an emulator "finalburn" was running some of the CPS-2 games. When the author (Dave) decided to stop doing any more supporting of CPS-2 games, the "kidz" just went nuts with the usual "internet-type" threats on Dave and any others involved with emulator "finalburn" back around spring 2001.

Glad that is now ancient history and most of the "spastic troublemaker kidz" back then have long left and moved on.
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Edited by gregf (04/02/17 03:06 AM)