MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: windows 8 preview and media player

> Welp gave win8 preview a try with its latest ver of media player built in. Still
> corrupts mp3s with the TXXX tag in them. 3 years later and *STILL* broke...

Windows Media Player has been broken, slow and bloated since 6.4 (XP), can they do anything right these days?

Is Freecell and Spider Solitaire still broken like they were in Vista and 7? It's got to be embarrassing that the version of Spider bundled with Windows Me is more reliable. Click detection always fails in Vista Spider after a while, and Freecell eventually slows down to a crawl due to memory leaks every time a game is played. It's a shame they never updated the original version, which still remains in 640x480 and 16 colors after almost 20 years (originally bundled/playable with Win32s).

Not only that, but to top it off, MS Hearts will cheat more than ever, giving you non-stop impossible-to-win situations, with the 3 CPU players ganging up on you, so you will either 'win' the Queen of Spades and/or a bunch of hearts regardless of whether you're winning or not (but never all at once, just to make sure you can't shoot the moon - you will end up with either the Q/S and low hearts, K/A of spades and no/few others, or high hearts minus one of them so you can't take all of them). Sometimes the CPU will play 'fair', and sometimes the CPU will also cheat just to let you win, by giving you easy cards, letting you shoot the moon, or piling the point cards on one single CPU player to get them over 100 so you win by a mile.