MAME .274 is Here! Big Upgrades to Arcade Emulation!

[@rancid_]

MAME devs have my upmost respect.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

They are always up to something fun

[@METR0lD]

Another reason to discuss the M2! 🤩

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

You know I’ll always find a reason!

[@stormchasingk9]

I hope I live long enough to see Cruis'n Exotica become perfectly functional in mame. We're so close.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Hopefully one of these days. Def needs it

[@mostverticalproductions4808]

All of the Zeus hardware really. The day The Grid becomes 100% perfect is the day i achieve nirvana.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Some Zeus works well enough. Invasion is mostly playable

[@mostverticalproductions4808]

@@VideoGameEsoterica they're playable but still have texture bugs and rendering problems. The Host in The Grid has no face on the profile creation screen.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Yes my Invasion board is much diff looking than MAME but it still works well enough to enjoy

[@isamuu99]

WOW....shout out and props Esoterica. You're definitely the man when it comes to showcasing these rare arcade games that would otherwise get ZERO attention. I remember reading about Winding Heat and Midnight Run in either GamePro or EGM like, oh...I dunno...30 years ago lol? Never thought I'd see the day those two insanely obscure arcade racers would be mentioned in a video with footage running the games. Crazy world we live in.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Def makes me happy. The more obscure the better :)

[@JamesElterman]

I enjoy playing Midnight Run via my PlayStation import. Looking forward to trying the MAME version! I'm really impressed that you own a board.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

It’s a fun board. Def not a common one

[@sassydog5399]

The dynamic recompiler back-end update is a literal game-changer for non-Windows users. Games like Gauntlet Legends and San Fransisco Rush were unplayable slideshows on Macs before but now run at full speed.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Good to know. I have plans for Mac emulation vids in the future

[@sassydog5399]

@@VideoGameEsoterica That sounds fun! Macs might not be known for their gaming prowess, but most of the major emulators run well on them due to their open-source nature. MAME (of course), Ares (preferably with the Metal video driver), MelonDS, PPSSPP, Dolphin, Flycast, PCSX2, Cemu and even RPCS3 all work to varying degrees of pretty good! On top of that, most of 8Bitdo's catalog of controllers are also compatible.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

I’ll do one vid. See how it goes

[@rodneyabrett]

I remember using the very first couple of versions of MAME on my Mac PowerPC in the 90s and it supported about 50-100 games. They’ve come a long way!

[@zergslayer69]

Always appreciate being introduced to older arcade games I may not have heard of so I can check it out!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

That’s what I’m here for :)

[@mailson4526]

Great. Thanks for the update!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Happy to do it

[@wickeddep6630]

Omg this dude sounds like he's been drinking coffee for hrs

[@tommahoney5620]

Sega multi32 hard dunk attract mode backgrounds now working for the first time in over 20+ years in MAME.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Another fun improvement

[@hanzhovaj4129]

Some of us would like to see how well does the new Mame run Atomiswave and Sega Hikaru arcade games.

[@ObiKKa]

Flycast already runs Atomiswave well. We'll have to wait for Hikaru's inclusion in that emulator.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Exactly

[@MickMacklerack]

And a few new fixes to konami viper pushed for the next release .275 by cam900 already.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

I’ll have something on Viper soon :)

[@arcadeguy781]

Midnight Run feels like Outrun because of the person in the passenger seat

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Haha I could see that. Def not Sega caliber though

[@ObiKKa]

MAMEdevs are working on the Power Macintosh driver. But it seems that it was delayed past this 0.274 release. So we'll have to wait for a future release.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

That will be an interesting addition

[@PhyA52]

Can't help but notice that the player's car doesn't have a shadow, but the opponent cars do in the first game, Winding Heat. Shadows are always one of those things that I notice right away in every 3D game. It can really take me out of the experience.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

I’d have to check my arcade board and see what it does in comparison

[@FakYuhGoogel]

10:31 Well, hello the- oh god!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

I swear the face is Denis Leary 🤣

[@crossover-Incorporated]

That's for sure a great improvement. ^^

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Makes those Konami classics finally playable. Gotta love it

[@crossover-Incorporated]

@VideoGameEsoterica time to update my MAME. ^^

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Yeah it is!

[@creeping1]

You seem to have a large collection of original PCBs. You should have a video showcasing everything that you have in storage!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

That would take me forever but I do have a whole Konami tour coming soon of all my hardware and I did this as well : Rare Neo Geo Prototypes and More! My Entire Hyper Neo Geo 64 Collection kzbin.info/www/bejne/sF7LfnmVpsipqJo

[@heavysystemsinc.]

I wish someone out there would brave the Konami voxel generating board and get Racin' Hero emulated. I wouldn't say it's a great game, but it's certainly one of the most unique, technologically speaking, for arcade games. It's been waiting on the voxel part of t he ground display chip/baord/etc. to get it's data right (or at all, cause the emulation shows the ground just gone)...

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

One of these days I’m sure it’ll happen but it’s def a deep cut game

[@Jib9001]

I'm waiting for the Cruis'n games to be playable, one of my mom's favorite series

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

USA and World are. Just not Exotica

[@gamecat666]

i see twitchy analogue controls on mame videos all the time, I think it needs some sort of internal 'virtual' wheel that the controller can map to - but NOT 1:1, more like a modern racing game does with configurable settings for turn rates, damping, how fast it responds to opposite lock etc. Some games even reduce turn rates based on the car speed (faster = slower turning) which would be nice but would require hooks into the emulated game to find that so a bit harder to implement but even the basics would be a nice start.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

It’s never easy to get analog just right but this is a huge improvement

[@Ewigkind]

that's great news! I just recently played midnight run a couple times and yes... I could hardly steer it and best place was like 3rd. I'm curious of how it plays now.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

It plays like the arcade board. Which is to say the steering is still a bit wild but it’s accurately wild now

[@rodrigogirao8344]

7:48 Put that next to House of the Dead 2 on the Dreamcast, and you can see that cancelling the M2 was the sensible choice.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Three year diff between platforms. It wasn’t meant to compete with Dreamcast. Dreamcast hadn’t even really started development when M2 was in arcades

[@rodrigogirao8344]

@@VideoGameEsoterica Perhaps, if you count from the M2's first public showing on the '95 E3. I'm counting from its cancellation in July '97 to the Dreamcast's Japanese launch in November '98: about one year and a half.

[@josephbot6]

I wonder if Police 911 will ever make it to MAME

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

It can boot but it’s not great looking and no controls

[@AKUMA-KILLER]

Do you have a video on Road Rage (Speed King NEO KOBE 2045)? I would love to see it (or maybe a comparison with the PS port). thanks!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Road Rage as far as I’ve ever known has never been found and dumped

[@ObiKKa]

Yes. And one retro collector in Japan, Eric "Shoutime" Chung, probably has it. But he doesn't seem to want to give it away without huge expense for someone to pay for it.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Yes he’s no longer any sort of resource

[@atomiswave2]

Never saw this game before

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Not many people have I think

[@polynektar]

great video! could you do a video on how to setup the trackball in MAME for Sonic the hedgehog arcade game? I have a trackball, but it still doesnt feel right, not sure what the real hardware felt like...

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Do you have a trackball mouse or an arcade trackball? Very diff items

[@groove66]

Are you driving Ms Daisy, VGE??

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Haha apparently

[@gravious]

Jetwave looks awesome, but they're not working on the right konami board emulation! (cough, cough, Xexex)

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

You mispronounced M2

[@gravious]

@@VideoGameEsoterica we're going to have words

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Sorry. You mispronounced Viper

[@Mr_x_19922]

Looks very arcade-ish (more fun than realism). Is there any way to lower the turning sensitivity?

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

You can adjust analog sensitivity in the tab menu

[@1903tx]

What control setup do you use for gun games that originally had hard-mounted potentiometer guns?

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Flight stick weirdly

[@DavidGarcia-qf7gc]

What's your opinion about the port of "Midnight Run" on PSX?

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Decent. But graphically inferior

[@scalliano]

Still holding out for Apache 3...

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

One day I’m sure

[@StumpsforLimbs]

So it's still normal for the audio stutter in Evil Night?

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Not normal as in it should be there. But normal due to its emulation status

[@StumpsforLimbs]

​@@VideoGameEsoterica Hopefully they'll iron that out soon, it's cool that it's playable though.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Yes it’s nice that Total Vice and Evil Night can both be played from start to finish

[@Metallic-Sun]

I've played Midnight Run on Playstation, is the arcade version a lot better?

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Better graphically but mostly the same game

[@SolidHyunkel]

How do you keep your set updated without having to redownload the whole thing including CHDs? When I try updating, the existing files are not recognized whatsoever.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

I don’t maintain a full set. Just the games I enjoy. So it’s much easier

[@Myako]

Why oh why, don't they include optional hardware acceleration support, dammit! 🤬

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

🤷🏻‍♂️ maybe one day

[@Ewigkind]

oh, and a general question. I just replaced the mame0.273.exe with the latest one. I start mame via EMU Loader. Do i need to initially run mame with -cc or something, to update?

[@mailson4526]

What about GTI Club 2?

[@DavidDavisDH]

I just want The House of the Dead fully playable on mame, that's all! I have Sinden guns, just waiting for HOTD 😂

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

At least we have Model 2 emulator

[@DavidDavisDH]

@VideoGameEsoterica it's a pain to setup with 2 players with that one that why I want it on Mame, I'm a big fan of the easy tab Mame menu, its just easy.

[@vancetamolang8494]

What are the chances any of these get ported to FPGA (not necessarily the Mister) the next 5 years?

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

If I’m being honest…low. ZR107 has three games. Ones undumped. Lot of work for racing games. If you start seeing arcade cores in 3D it’ll probably start with Model 1 and 2. The heavy hitter, filled with great game platforms

[@vancetamolang8494]

@@VideoGameEsoterica Yes Model 1 and 2 should be the priority.

[@jodyjohnson265]

I saw that when I played DDR USA and Extreme I saw that the konami 573 games got a performance boost and ya all of the DDR arcade games work on android but your gonna deal with studdering

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Suffering is no good on rhythm games that’s for sure

[@Vinder25]

Cool still waiting on race on mame

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Race?

[@JB-mm5ff]

Inquiring minds want to know: will the .271 set work on .274? don't need the new games released since .271. thx

[@meyou-dz2kl]

Usually not all do there may be a need to update some roms but not all

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Haven’t had any issues so far

[@Metallic-Sun]

I think the California Speed rom needs to be 0.272 or higher, same old CHD though.

[@hardnine]

Rave racer run on mame?

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Yep runs fine

[@hardnine]

@VideoGameEsoterica wow seriously?like Rave Racer ? Iv seen vids on youtube faurly recently and it runing horrible..any idea when it was fixed?thanks

[@hardnine]

@VideoGameEsoterica wow ok just found a vid from last year looks perfect.thanks

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Yeah should be no issues

[@TheRealJPhillips]

There were so many better looking games than winding heat in 96. Ridge Racer is an example. Konami just couldn't really get their 3D Skills up in the arcade after 2D died back then

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Konami got there with Cobra and NWK-TR was good hardware too. As was Hornet. They started rough though

[@TheRealJPhillips]

@VideoGameEsoterica true 💯

[@Jokerwolf666]

The riding Miss Daisy burn is the chef's kiss.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

🤣

[@meecob]

Interesting subject matter. I can't can't keep up with your nazelly mono-tonal high speed talking. Please slow down

[@tonyt611]

im wshing mame will fix exticar arcade games

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Not familiar with that one

[@meyou-dz2kl]

You ant seen nothing yet brother😉

[@winterhell2002]

Mamme mia!!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

🤣 nice

[@opr6516]

Every so often, hhhhh, while wondering the expanse of KZbin, hhhhh, I come across a channel, hhhhh, with an unmistakable trait, hhhhh, it's always nice to hear a fellow mouth breather, hhhhh.

[@MarquisDeSang]

Mame is useless because the roms on the internet are only supported the 20 years old version of mame.

[@Metallic-Sun]

You can easily find 0.264 roms.

[@ciaranmccarthy]

Pleasuredome hosts up to date MAME romsets

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

It’s really easy to find them

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Yes it’s a Google away

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

As does archive