MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: 20 years of Mametesters and MW (soon)

>was researching Game & Watch and was surprised to now see them in MAME.

A few years of progress along the way starting back around 2015 or 2016 with hap and Sean doing the initial cpu emulation and rom dumping, algestam joined in later for reading the rom data, and many various contributors (Moogly, Mr. Do and others etc.) and hydef and others doing artwork support.

See links for G&W panorama artwork support.

https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=116433&page=345

https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=116433#Post116433

Lots of support for various (LED or LCD) handheld items. hap did loads of chessboard games emulation earlier this year. The emulated item I like is the Casio RZ-1 drum unit that was done last year. It still has more work to be done, but it is somewhat playable.

If Fev's (Fever) were ever to visit again, he would see Pong, Pong Doubles, Breakout, and Rebound are now emulated in MAME

>I see the same names kicking about so great that it's all going strong. I was the 5th
>person to register on these forums when we moved over. Member number 7.

*my initial MW recollection*

I never saw the first setup of MAMEWorld since that was before following MAME. I first discovered MAME in May 2000 and did see the first site of MAME Testers around late summer 2000.

iirc the person, not ztnet Lev, but someone else was hosting the initial MAME Testers site, but had to pull plug on the initial site. The site owner was also hosting btribble's unMAMEd web site when it used to be on its own web site before Bobby moved unMAMEd to Gridle's old MAME.net web site. That is what I recall.

I had read about MAME Testers reopening again in early January 2001 and visited initial beginnings setup of second version of MAMEWorld where everything was at back then. I visited the site and recall only seeing names KC, Roc, Shifty, The Dog, posting on MAME Testers forum at the time. It was like a tiny old Loonybin era houseparty without all the craziness that would eventually happen a few months later.

iirc, I didn't visit MW forums again until around late summer 2001 and then saw where all the loonies left old MAME.net web site and were running amok on MW forums. That had to have been the first week or two where Smit issued the ultimatum of all MW members to show a photo of themselves or Smit would declare the MW member looks like dog poop with a link to a photo of dog poop on the lawn if the user chose not to show a photo of themselves on MW forum. LOL

I'll make sure to toast MW come January 2021.