> The reason I ask is that in the decade or so I've been following MAME and this forum > the question of network play has come up many times. Almost universally a dev has > answered that even local networks are not up to the task and that the whole thing was > a pipe dream.
That was true 5+ years ago when it was most frequently being asked. With GigE common and 10GbE up and coming that's not a problem nowadays. Good luck if you attempt it on WiFi though.
Also, I used to believe a third party would eventually do networking for MAME correctly. I am no longer under that delusion, and the fact that having MESS "in house" gets us a lot of free comms technology ain't a bad thing either.
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