MAME - A 2022 Retrospective

[@Razorblade1812]

This is the one beauty about MAME, that it exists not only just for the sake of arcade game preservation, but also for many people out there who truly miss their favorite arcade games growing up that they can never or barely play their original machines of anymore (unless they have the original machines themselves or their PCB sets in their possession), and even those who didn't get a chance to play arcade games they thought looked so cool, but was part of an establishment that was virtually off-limits to children and minors (Such as how I came across this Konami racer called Winding Heat that I remember seeing way back in the mid-2000s at what used to be a mini casino that I could not enter because I was a minor.). It also gives people like me a chance to discover and know about games that they may have never even heard of and seen before, like those Mahjong games with all those beautiful ladies within and even weird bootleg games like Juezhan Tianhuang, and even other Konami racers like Racing Jam (thanks to big fan of the game Vectrex4Life) and Thrill Drive. If I remember correctly, it was Daytona USA 2 which I used to play a lot in the mid-2000s when it used to be at CineStar, a movie theater in Dortmund located at the northern exit of the Central Station. And because of my share curiousity towards Daytona USA 2, I wanted to play an emulated version of it at home so badly, which was how I came across MAME for the first time, except that Daytona USA 2 wasn't and even still isn't working on MAME to this day, but is playable via Supermodel. I even used to play the arcade games that were included on the Namco Museum compilations on the PlayStation that I used to have in my youth, all on MAME. Thanks to MAME, I was able to know games like the T2 Arcade Game, Rad Mobile, Under Fire, Blades of Steel, 2-on-2 Open Ice Challenge and several others for the first time. I'm always very proud to have known and played with MAME since my youth.

[@cocainebullets]

Looking forward to the 2023 retrospective

[@jda4887]

Without your video i would assume MAME dev was stagnant and most games near 100% working, how wrong i was. thank you for this encompassing video

[@hannixx2142]

Dude. Your sardonic sense of humor made me sit through the entire video instead of skipping to the parts I was interested in. I could have been productive! Damn you.

[@zerojayzero]

The last thing I expected to see was the numbers station voice generator, wow, amazing to play around with something that I only could have dreamt about for so long. Incredible video, keep up the amazing work.

[@electra]

How do you get that system to speak? I got the software list installed and found a manual online but I don't "get it".

[@sammy61187]

Really great video hopefully there is some more longer ones on your channel soon

[@dacker23]

Thanks for showing off some of the keyboards! Hopefully I'll have at least a few more of those going this year too.

[@mogemulation]

Heck, thanks for getting them working! Looking forward to what you've got up your sleeeve for this year. :)

[@muscises1858]

I was kind of surprised to see something I did so small in the video(fixing the Konami medal games), but hopefully I can contribute more in the future.

[@incog88]

Love this, watched MAME from the start, I was always dying for this type of content as I mashed F5 on developer blogs and WIP pages.

[@Ti-JAC]

Thank You Mog. Wonderful research and presentation. I very much enjoyed this segment. 👍

[@llaffer]

Love the songs played when showing off the first two keyboard emulators. :)

[@peterlemon1385]

Loving these videos, the "Falco" joke made me lol! =D

[@Krishell]

Going to watch the whole video tonight! Looks like great work

[@rippedgeek]

Wonderful video, and so incredibly well presented! Thank you for the content.

[@TechicallyTNT]

Glad I've found your channel totally Subscribe. Thanks for all you share.

[@TheChooseAName123]

I really hope the new laser disc rips get deinterlacing. That would really unleash their potential.

[@MRDeu]

Please continue to do this type of content, i love it. Thanks for your work.

[@A-Noid]

Great recap. Thanks for doing this!

[@SynaMax]

As always, thank you and the MAME dev team for all your hard work in preserving these games for future generations. I think I saw a Polygonet Commanders cabinet a long time ago and forgot what the game was called until I watched your previous video. The OST is actually really badass.

[@mogemulation]

Agreed - Konami's audio team in the early 90's were absolutely phenomenal. I tend to prefer the soundtrack for Poly-Net Warriors as it's a bit more upbeat, but Polygonet also has its gems.

[@jbyork]

Great work! I love seeing MAME's progress!

[@toitoitoy]

Thanks for this overview, good job!

[@B.ART-electro]

Your zeal for work and your productivity are really impressive. I wonder if you still find time to sleep at regular intervals. The lovingly designed video in almost half the length of a feature film must also have taken more than 8 hours of production time. For this, I pay you the utmost respect!!!

[@mogemulation]

Truth is, I do sleep at regular intervals, it's just up in the air for how long. ;)

[@B.ART-electro]

@@mogemulation That your interest in reverse engineering & emulations is so great that you are willing to sacrifice the 2nd deep sleep phase, which is so important for us humans, I had already thought. It is not without reason that the term "passion" is connected by the verb "to suffer". I hope that Adrien Bruce will support you as much as possible in the realization of the emulation of the Fairlight Series III, so that you don't get the idea to shorten your 1st deep sleep phase for this...

[@mogemulation]

@@B.ART-electro The CMI III is on my radar, but a bit of a ways down my list. My first priority in terms of non-video-related things is to wrap up emulation of the Quantel DPB-7001, now that the PAL16R4 on the Size Card has been run through a DuPAL board.

[@mana_beast_beats1114]

A cutie floofer.

[@jimbotron70]

@@mogemulation The Fairlight driver would be amazing!

[@jybe4122]

Nice complete Video ! I enjoy watching it. I have 1 question : which shader do you use ? I really like how It looks.

[@jimbotron70]

Very useful, thanks.

[@Losbrother_hermanos]

Great work

[@_gelon]

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42.

[@EvertVorster]

Awesome Stuff!

[@zeppy13131]

Very informative, dude, thanks! Though personally, I must admit I find the gratuitous, obviously stock video-clip inserts distracting and, well, on the cheesy side. But then, emulation has an appealing general cheesiness to it too, so it's no big deal, even if you weren't thinking along those lines. Ahem.)

[@EvertVorster]

This is great stuff... but I just don't have the time to watch it all in one go. So, I'm watching it like a series! (You could release shorter videos more frequently, and I'll watch them like a soap opera!)

[@mogemulation]

Thanks! I'm trying to keep things closer to 15-20 minutes, but with the sheer amount of *stuff* that was added or improved in 2022, it was hard to pare anything back.

[@EvertVorster]

@@mogemulation I really do know how difficult that can be! I recently started a sizeable project as well, namely to play and review most of the games that was released for MS-DOS. I try to do one a day, and still this project will take me years to complete. Here is a link to the channel: kzbin.info/door/WdmCsCQiPyVzyjYyehj3xQ

[@mogemulation]

@@EvertVorster Hell yeah! Subscribed. The C64 was the first computer I ever had, but MS-DOS games were a huge part of my life since the C64 wasn't quite as popular in the early 90's over here in the US. ;) Are you open to some suggestions? I'm a complete newbie to this myself, but there are a couple high-value, low-effort things that could help, quality-wise.

[@arisumego]

subscribed

[@FatherTime89]

I don't follow MAME development at all but I'm surprised Silent Scope isn't working given how popular the game is. Good that it's getting closer to working though.

[@mogemulation]

MAME developers contribute to MAME partly out of a sense of obligation to the lesser-known systems, but mainly because it's a hobby that they want to work on in their spare, unpaid time. That being the case, the popularity of a given system has no bearing on whether the system is interesting to emulate for a given dveloper.

[@FatherTime89]

@@mogemulation What makes something interesting to emulate? I write code for a living but I never wrote code for video games or for an emulator.

[@mogemulation]

@@FatherTime89 It depends entirely on the person. Some people find it interesting to emulate as many different controllers as possible for a console. Some people are obsessed with Apple computers. Sometimes, the challenge of fixing up a long-broken DSP core is attractive, as it was for me with Polygonet. It can be interesting to emulate a CPU or microcontroller that doesn't currently have a core in MAME yet. It can be interesting to take a deep dive into a game's code to try to fix a long-standing bug. For other people, they're happy once a system boots, then they leave it for any other interested developers to take ownership. Still others, they prefer to focus entirely on old Unix-related workstations. Some people have a laser focus on the Motorola 68000 line. It really varies, but one consistent thing is that focusing on a game or system that was popular doesn't tend to bring much but grief. I tend to prefer more narrowly-focused systems, as the abuse from emulator users is self-limiting in that way. Get one 3D arcade system up and running, meanwhile, and people will simply find another thing to relentlessly harp on in the monthly release threads.

[@rcadenow7543]

mame is The only true and proved religion...