MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Thinking of some Dragon's Lair/Space Ace

> > I don't disagree with you on preservation. Are you saying I shouldn't give any of
> my
> > support/money for these remasters then? It looks like preservation of the discs may
> > have already happened- MG mentioned in the news forum that:
> >
> > All I or any of the rest of the team know is that a very senior team member
> suffering
> > from terminal Real-Life Syndrome (that is: got a house and family, generally won
> the
> > arcade game we call "life", but unlikely to have time for MAME in the future)
> dumped
> > several hundred gigs of LD captures in various forms onto the server the team keeps
> > deep within its volcano lair. As far as I know, it's pretty much up to devs
> > potentially interested in various LD games to pick over the uploads and assess
> > whether or not there's anything useful there.
>
> no no, by all means buy the remasters if you enjoy them, you'll get a better
> experience than anything MAME can emulate because MAME will use the original footage
> which looks like ass compared to the new ones (and if you're not playing those games
> for the graphics, I don't know what you're playing them for)
>
> they're really not comparable at all hence why not supporting the originals would be
> a bit stupid if it can be done.

I do have the mpegs (not sure if they're as good as the ones the Daphne team offers up for download- I know Space Ace really looked pretty bad last time I ran it) so I can already play them using Daphne if I want, but these days I try to support owners when I can, though I suppose Digital Leisure aren't really the owners- they just license it too, correct? Of course some of the money would get back to Don Bluth and company. I'm thinking I will probably give it a go, at least for one title at first. $5 really isn't much, even for me.