MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: If MAME was for sale

> > 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"?
>
> I think part of it is that it's not as exciting as it used to be. I remember 10-12
> years ago, waiting in breathless excitement for the new MAME build because it
> supported half a dozen new games that you hadn't seen since they were new in the
> arcade. Now, the additions and changes are interesting and cool, but they're way more
> esoteric than back in the day. 99% of everything I've ever played or heard about has
> already been emulated. Most people, especially those who are less hardcore about it
> than we are, need that excitement and novelty, or they just lose interest.
>
> > How come new people
> > haven't gotten interested in emulation to replaced those people who have moved on?
>
> Because new people would mostly be younger people, and people under a certain age
> don't remember arcades when arcades were cool. They never played the games back in
> the day, so there's no nostalgia, and they just aren't interested. Naoki
> notwithstanding.

Notwithstanding?

Yeah, reading and I have to agree, I like seeing the little improvments, but seeing games like Arctic Thunder, Offroad thunder and that just being dumped excite me. But I've gone to the phase that unless there's changes to a driver with a game I have in my Media drives, I just don't bother downloading it, except for mame testing.

In fact, without MAME, I wouldn't have been interested in Gauntlet DL or Legends to buy my own PCB. Heck, would of probably found that an arcade game existed, and I would have the game regardless, but I don't think it would feel quite the same as to buy the real deal. In that respect I'm greatfull MAME is free and still exists. Gratefull enough thta I want to help the project (and often be an annoyance in the process

) to the extent that the ROMs for Gauntlet Legends I wanna buy I'm gonna try get the 1.5v kit, just so I have something original and could put that in MAME.

If MAME needed to be bought, oh hell would it have died from legal competition. That and I wouldn't have it sitting on my Media drives. I don't think I would of bought it even though I have an interest in arcade machines since I feel MAME itself has made my interest risen from what it was. Again, as stated, I had no chance to live the golden days I hear about, I can only enjoy it a fraction of what it could be like. That and being around tiny arcades with no interesting games other than DDR and house of the dead kinda doesn't help. I wish arcades were more serious about games, but I'm living to much into the past. Heck, by the time the PS4 is out I'll probably still be playing 5+ year old hardware.

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