And even so, how many people under 25 have ever seen and played the real, original Breakout, the game that started a whole genre and was worked on by some big-name people like Woz? The discrete circuitry games are largely difficult to find, except for a few of the most popular like pong and Breakout. So instead of finding a way around the legal issues, like a plug-in system, they draw an arbitrary line in the sand and claim that they shouldn't emulate the hardware of these games because it would be a "simulation"-as if the emulated hardware that ROMs run on is real, not simulated?įorgive me if I get a little pissed, but I'm annoyed that a project which claims to be for arcade preservation is letting the foundation of the arcade business disappear, mostly because they enjoy playing Golden Tee and such more than really preserving the 70s classics. They emulate what they want to play, with no regard for the games that are really in danger-the oldest arcade games, almost all of which have discete circuits and no ROMs. Sure, developers can spend their time working on whatever they want and blah blah blah, but it's still hypocritical to emulate games that are still being sold and refuse to emulate games that are disappearing, and claim you're doing it all to preserve our arcade heritage. I find it hypocritical that the MAME devs claim that MAME is made for the purpose of preserving our arcade heritage before the machines are too far gone, and yet they spend their time emulating Golden Tee games that you can still find in any sports bar today (they're in the source code, but disabled since they're still being sold), and yet refuse to emulate the 70s classics that used discrete circuits and are disappearing all the time. That way they could avoid the legal pitfall while still preserving the oldest games, those with discrete circuitry, which are also those most in need of preservation.
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What they really should have done is create a plug-in framework for discrete-circuitry games, so that the emulated/simulated circuitry could be packaged in a zip file and downloaded just like ROMs are.
They arbitrarily call all-circuitry games "simulated" games rather than emulated-a very stupid distinction since, to run the ROMs on the emulated machines in MAME, MAME simulated a whole lot of discrete circuitry. So they removed Pong and drew an arbitrary distinction between all-circuitry games and games that have ROMs.
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The MAME devs decided that emulating a whole discrete-circuitry game-meaning that MAME would play that game without needing to download any external ROMs at all- would keep MAME open to easier legal attack. The reason that Pong was dropped and support for other discrete-circuitry games was dropped isn't technical, it's legal. It's in older versions of MAME, in improved versions of recent builds of MAME called FixMAME, and it's been emulated accurately in its many different forms, both arcade and home, by several other emulators. In fact, Pong was one of the first games emulated by MAME. Such games are no more difficult to emulate than any other games.
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