MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Contradiction in Mame?

> Also, why it's in MAME is the same reason why fast forward (not to be confused with
> speed hacks or fast-load hacks, as per Vas Crabb's post) is in virtually every other
> emulator.
>
> It's better than waiting forever to get to the part you need to be, and to skip
> annoyingly-long loading times (especially with tape-based games e.g. DECO Cassette,
> Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum etc.), power-on self-tests (including RAM/ROM tests which
> Konami games are notorious for, or the tile cycling that Pac-Man era games tend to
> do), and/or unskippable cutscenes like countless PlayStation games do (also,
> "PlayStation" and "annoyingly-long loading times" are virtually synonymous), all of
> which are extremely useful to fast forward through when testing something that isn't
> possible to access in-game in the first few minutes of normal-speed gameplay.

Also, for skipping over the stripping scenes in Mahjong Hyper Reaction so I can get back to playing mahjong.