MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Model 2 WIP

> ..for any of the long time emulation followers that remember the 2002 April Fools
> joke that Gridle had pulled with Model 2 wip update on old MAME.net web site.
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> For those that had never visited old MAME.net web site, the site maintainer "Santeri
> S. / Gridle" would type up MAME wip moments so users could see what was completed
> over a few days and maybe what to expect in a future MAME release. For April Fools
> day in 2001 Gridle did a light-hearted wip update that made fun of MAMEdevs, but it
> was clever and well done without getting users upset.
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> For April Fools day MAME wip update in 2002, Gridle had posted a Model 2 emulation
> update that showed 'doctored' images of Model 2 games running in MAME. The chat
> forums were filled with lots of over-excited fans waiting to try Model 2 emulation in
> a future release of MAME. When it was discovered later in the day that it was an
> April Fools prank by Gridle, there were several upset "kidz" that were dismayed that
> it was a joke by Gridle. A few posted swearing so the forum had to be cleaned up with
> a few posts having to be deleted.
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> Model 2 games were not emulated until another few more years had passed...maybe
> around 2004 or 2005 iirc.
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> I thought it was a clever April Fools stunt that Gridle pulled in 2002, but not a
> surprise that some users were to react like that regarding the 2002 April Fools prank
> of Model 2 being emulated because in 2001 when CPS-2 was first emulated by using XOR
> files created by Razoola there was huge excitment because an emulator "finalburn" was
> running some of the CPS-2 games. When the author (Dave) decided to stop doing any
> more supporting of CPS-2 games, the "kidz" just went nuts with the usual
> "internet-type" threats on Dave and any others involved with emulator "finalburn"
> back around spring 2001.
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> Glad that is now ancient history and most of the "spastic troublemaker kidz" back
> then have long left and moved on.

I remember that very well (yes, I'm so old...).
It seems, that only hardcore emu fans left