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Originally Posted by Tafoid:

I'd hate to disagree, but this isn't 1998-2001 anymore. The 10's and 100's of thousands of people interested in MAME (and emulation in general) have largely moved on.

I hear that kind of stuff often regarding the emulation scene. In your opinion, why do you think that happens? Why have so many people "moved on"? How come new people haven't gotten interested in emulation to replaced those people who have moved on?

Emulation is so much more evolved and improved compared to back then. Therefore, so many more games can be emulated, played, and enjoyed. Plus the quality of emulation looks nearly identicle or better than the actual real hardware they emulate. Plus all the new, cool features that's avaiilable today. So I don't understand why the emulation scene isn't as big/popular as back in the day?

I understand that some people may say because it was more exciting back then because of all the new things that kept being released every week... such as new games were being dumped, new emulation features released, unreleased games being found, new discoveries, etc. But I would have thought that todays ability to play almost every game for various game consoles along with the abilities/features that are available today that wasn't available back then would have been enough to match the interest in emulation of back in the day.

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