Still disagree ;-)


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Posted by rmfx on January 03, 2002 at 05:20:56:

In Reply to: Re: Not as much as you think you do... posted by Howard Casto on January 02, 2002 at 15:59:52:

: See those were those exceptions I mentioned though.... Anything Super-nintendo era and before I can see, but after that the controls just get too specialized to have a good experience. Playstation and n64 games just weren't ment to be played on an arcade cab.

That's why I'm putting in a set of USB ports on the front of my cab, where I can plug in my dual-analog Hammerhead FXs! :-)

: Now flight sims are another story... If you've got an analogue stick a throttle and 30 some odd buttons mounted on your cab then more power too ya, but I figure that most people don't.

And that's why I'm putting in an analog stick (with 16 buttons BTW), a throttle, and a flip-down keyboard...

: As for a front-end being a big list of games... alot of people share you opinion on that one, but quite frankly, the quantity of games is just too huge to do that anymore... Mame is geting closer and closer to that 4000 games mark...

Which is why I'd rather see as many games at once in as big a font as possible, with only the screenshot as a graphic identifier.
Too many FEs clutter the screen with a bunch of other custom artwork, usually poorly drawn (with exceptions) that I'd rather not look at or spend time creating a replacement for, and relegate the game list to a small portion of the screen. My ultimate FE would be something simple like ArcadeOS (game list with full-screen BG screenshots to help me browse), with maybe a screenshot screensaver and an MP3 player with some arcade ambience playing in the BG...

And I'm not actually interested in the vast majority of the 4000 games out there--just some faves and classics. I'm not quite sure why some people think that they need to have a personal mirror of the entire mame.dk site, but I have exactly 163 games in Mame right now, including clones and sequels. That's quite enough for me. Add to that maybe a dozen or so console games, and about a dozen PC games. I actually wouldn't mind if I'm only able to run the emu executable, then have to load the roms -- many console emus have a recent files or favorites list. I'd just like to be able to do it all in one place if possible, without seeing Windows. Even if it takes a little setup work.



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