@johnodon Yeah, I was referring to pc.

On my overclocked Pi 3, I also use Mame2010. It is good enough to handle it. But that should not bother you. In fact, I have an third emulator for arcade games (fba), because there are a lot games working better. On PC, I just could use the newest version. But if your pc is a little bit old, then performance could still be a problem with some 3D titles.

I loved quake2!
The map indeed was q2dm1 'The edge'. The rail gun was in the room under the water.
How do you play this game now? What does it play like- I remember this making me invest in more ram and my first 3dfx card for the first time. P166 and 16mb of ram lol.
There was an online game called Red rover that was excellent. Also loved the servers that had power ups Haste, Vampire and some others.
Super shotgun, quad damage and haste was the most hilarious combination.

@addison There is a huge site for this, but it requires you to play specific emulator versions of MAME. Other systems or emulators aren't allowed. It is called WolfMame and have several changes in its source code to prevent from cheating. Unfortunately, it is only available to pc. If you still interested in it, go ahead and have a look at MARP site.

Forum: http://marpirc.net/
Database: http://replay.marpirc.net/

But be aware, you can't just enter you name and score without any proof. WolfMame will record an input file and you have to upload it too.

@victimrlsh I never even though about gas or realized that was a thing. I guess that makes total sense though, now I have a new thing to research 😁

Guys in the end of armada,what does the phrase the emissary says mean? Is (spoiler alert) it possible that the solidity will give technology advanced enough to bring back Xavier?

Nobody talks about soccer anymore. Just found a new game fitting this thread.

Pleasure Goal / Futsal - 5 on 5 Mini Soccer (NGM-219)

Rom name: pgoal.zip
Emulator: lr-fbalpha (FB Alpha v0.2.97.43)

i would recommend mame2003+ more games inproved input system bit of a learning curve.

There are tons of Chinese knockoff demakes that are terrible and forgetable, but a few great ones.

Final Fantasy VII for NES.

Sonic the Hedgehog on the NES

Resident Evil on the NES

I looks through the romset, and there are around 200 individual games in disk format marked as British releases, so assuredly in English. All of the cartridge games were either in Japanese or Korean.

I did a bit of reading up, and many of the games were converted from Sinclair Spectrum versions, as the hardware and graphics capabilities were fairly similar. The games list I looked at seemed to confirm it - lots of classic spectrum games.

This is just my two cents, but I've not had good luck with 3.0 cables. Sometimes the controller wouldn't be recognized. I ended up stuffing them in a drawer and getting some 2.0 cables. They were the cheapest 3.0 cables on Amazon, so higher quality cables might work fine.

I eventually got some 8bitdo wireless controllers. They can sometimes be a headache, dealing with bluetooth issues. But the tangled up extension cables were a bigger constant headache.

@cyperghost said in Share your collections:

Oh well not really neccessary.

Are you sure? I could have sworn this was a roadblock for me when creating these manually in the past. Still, it's been a while, you may be right.

One thing I've discovered since getting into this again is that there is such a thing as TOO MUCH tonnage on your team, especially trying to survive the Hard and Suicidal difficulties. If you have 800 tons of mechs, the enemy is going to have even more, and while efficient mech designs and play strategies can defeat them, they are likely to unload enough ordinance focus fired onto a single mech of yours that the engine explodes or the pilot is killed before even getting a chance to surrender, eject, eject ammo, etc. Keeping your team weight low can prevent the one-round kills because the enemy won't have enough firepower to wipe one mech out before you can do anything about it.

@classicgmr yes atariage. I am pimpmaul69 on atariage.

The August post is up!

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/18761/august-game-of-the-month-castle-of-illusion-starring-mickey-mouse-sms

@likethereindeer i use a Dualshock 3 and have activated the left analog stick in retroarch.
Works great for me.
I had Wind Commander III on my 3DO back in 1995 and loved this game even with pure digital joypads.
So the analog input now on my Raspberry is a great improvment for my personal experience 😊

That's not a real thing.
...Wait
...Is that a real thing?
type-ety type type type
Well son of a...It is a real thing!

First celebrated in 2000, I presume for saving our collective butts from time stamp issues.

Y2K abbreviated for any one who wondered:
Way back when, when memory and ram were precious things.
"Hey how much space should we code for the date year?"
"Just 2 digits it will save us that little bit more of room."
"But what happens when we roll over to 2000?"
"Pft, this code will be replaced by then."
...1999
"Ah crap"
Sysadmin: "It's cool, we can fix it. It is just going to take a bunch of work finding the various time stamp codes and fixing them, but we got this."
"Oh good. We should give you a holiday for this. I mean this could have launched missiles and ended the world."
Sysadmin: raises one eyebrow in the how stupid are you kind of way. "No, it would just make some systems not talk to each other and would mess up log files. No missiles. But thanks for the holiday."

...AND SCENE...

Happy Sysadmin Day! and thanks for keeping things running despite all of our ID-10-T errors.

Final true store from my IT days.
Me: You filed a support ticket?
Coworker: Ya, my computer won't work it just sits there. It's locked up or something.
Me: Okay let me look. Crawls under desk and then back out as computer turns on
Coworker: Wow. What magic did you do to get it to work?
Me: I... I turned it on. There's a power button right down there.
Coworker: Oh... Could you maybe...not tell anyone about this?

@edmaul69 I would like to meet him too. Also I would like to meet some of the twin galaxies officials and hear what happened behind the scenes.