rickb20 Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 I've checked the glossary... Can someone tell me what is meant by MAME? Thanks, Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 Multi Arcade Machine Emulator (Or emulation?) a long running and very old yet always new program that emulates an absolutely ABSURD number of arcade games. check www.retrogames.com for the latest or mame.net mame.de or mame.dk if memory severs.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator...and it means just what it says. It allows you to actually play THE quarter-munching arcade games right on your computer (copies of the arcade game programs). They function identical or nearly identical to how they behaved in "the reol thang". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 Talking about MAME, does anyone know what "screen-tilt" means? Lots of the Games say no screen tilt. And I just cant figure out what it means? Games such as Power Drift as No screen tilt. Althought Power Drift is emulated using Final Burn not MAME. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 Screen flipping? (rotating the screen 180º for player 2 when the game is in a cocktail cabinet, for example) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted June 2, 2003 Share Posted June 2, 2003 Screen flipping? (rotating the screen 180º for player 2 when the game is in a cocktail cabinet, for example) Power Drift used to be one of them there video games that had stuff mounted on hydraulics, so I'm guessing it had something to do with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted June 2, 2003 Share Posted June 2, 2003 Possibly...but it was the "lots of the games" part that threw me. I was guessing that this was due to some games not being released in cocktail cabs (so the original hardware had no way of flipping the screen) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted June 2, 2003 Share Posted June 2, 2003 Possibly...but it was the "lots of the games" part that threw me. I was guessing that this was due to some games not being released in cocktail cabs (so the original hardware had no way of flipping the screen) Oh, that could be too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 Still dont get what Screen Flipping means ? Or what a cocktail cabinet looks like... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 A cocktail cabinet is like a small table...with the screen below the glass surface and the players usually seated on opposite sides (so the game image needs to flip when alternating players' take their turns). Since this screen flipping is really only needed for games that actually DID appear in this style of cabinet, I would guess the only games in Mame that support it are the ones that were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 A cocktail cabinet is like a small table...with the screen below the glass surface and the players usually seated on opposite sides (so the game image needs to flip when alternating players' take their turns). Since this screen flipping is really only needed for games that actually DID appear in this style of cabinet, I would guess the only games in Mame that support it are the ones that were. Oh i see the flat-table Arcade Machine so player 2 wont have to play it upside down, the screen will flip. Not much point of that on an emulator then since playing my games on and upright monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 Yeah...though some people make their own cocktail cabs using Mame. I suppose that the message is mainly for them (so they won't be aimlessly tweaking Mame) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 Anyway the game I was talking about with "No tilt" was POWER DRIFT. In Finalburn it says : Glitchies, No Tilt. Power Drift couldnt be played on a flat-table (or cocktail). At Least I now know what Screen-Flipping means. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariDude Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 Mame stands for M ultiple A rcade M achine E mulator Essentially this is a program that allows a PC or MAC to emulate various hardware boards that were located inside arcade cabinets. By having the software and a ROM image from the arcade machine, you can mimic actually playing the machine without needing to use quarters. Please note however that you are only allowed to have the ROM image on your computer if you have the actual arcade machine. Have fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 MAME is not as the old real ones though. Maybe playing them sitting down at your keyboard on an upright monitor was they werent designed to be played as. And games like After Burner, They will never be able to emulate the moving realistic Cockpits! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 And games like After Burner, They will never be able to emulate the moving realistic Cockpits! Right. And take even a supposedly "simple" game like the original Space Invaders.. you can never emulate the mirrored translucent playfield floating over the lit cardboard background, and the echoey bass reverberating through the wood cabinet. I know know it should be obvious, but especially for younger players who've never seen the real thing, it's important to note how Mame, awesome as it is, often times understandably can't match the real deal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 And games like After Burner, They will never be able to emulate the moving realistic Cockpits! Right. And take even a supposedly "simple" game like the original Space Invaders.. you can never emulate the mirrored translucent playfield floating over the lit cardboard background, and the echoey bass reverberating through the wood cabinet. I know know it should be obvious, but especially for younger players who've never seen the real thing, it's important to note how Mame, awesome as it is, often times understandably can't match the real deal Wow! Cool!.. No wonder y we use to play money to play these! Its beats my 2 MAME versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Socrates Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 MAME as good as it is also doesnt have a GUI(Graphic User Interface, these use windows and menus and icons and a mouse instead of command lines, like Windows 3.1 did with DOS) so id suggest downloading MAME 32 off Zophar's Domain or Emu Unlimated . its basically MAME with a GUI. im pretty sure its the same base program with all the same features i cant be 100% as i never bothered d/ling MAME because i found this first and it worked magnificantly. oh and to configure the controls and such press tab in game (it took me a while to figure this out and it made life much, much better/easier) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landsmarra Posted July 25, 2003 Share Posted July 25, 2003 Getting back to the original question...if you're Spanish, MAME means "suck." I found this out in a rather funny way. I was looking for a site to download ROMs from and found this Spanish site. Google offered to translate it and when I did, everywhere MAME was supposed to appear, the word "suck" appeared instead. It was pretty hilarious downloading "suck ROMS" as the site called them. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spongebue Posted July 25, 2003 Share Posted July 25, 2003 Yeah, but probably suck as in like a straw (I can think of other examples, but then I could get it trouble) not as in "this game sucks" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room 34 Posted July 25, 2003 Share Posted July 25, 2003 A cocktail cabinet is like a small table...with the screen below the glass surface and the players usually seated on opposite sides (so the game image needs to flip when alternating players' take their turns). Since this screen flipping is really only needed for games that actually DID appear in this style of cabinet, I would guess the only games in Mame that support it are the ones that were. Here's an example of a cocktail table. (Room 34 chimes in late, just as an opportunity to show off his Asteroids cocktail table.) Room 34's Asteroids Cocktail Table Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 What a beauty sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 So I guess this is what Screen-Flipping means, as I never played 2 player games on Cocktails tables ever before and I use to think, Poor player 2, they will have to play the game upsidedown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room 34 Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 What a beauty Thanks! Sadly, its companion, the Taxi pinball, is no longer in my possession. But I got more for it than I paid (minus the shipping charges), so I can't complain! I'd really like to have a Dig Dug or Donkey Kong machine to accompany it, but right now it's on its own as representative of the arcade world in my game room, which is dominated, of course, by Atari 2600 cartridges! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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