lr-fbalpha2012 vs lr-fbalpha, lr-mame2003 vs lr-mame2014
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@enderandrew said in lr-fbalpha2012 vs lr-fbalpha, lr-mame2003 vs lr-mame2014:
@barbudreadmon said in lr-fbalpha2012 vs lr-fbalpha, lr-mame2003 vs lr-mame2014:
@enderandrew said in lr-fbalpha2012 vs lr-fbalpha, lr-mame2003 vs lr-mame2014:
Isn't a pacman dump a pacman dump?
No, dump differ from emulator to another emulator and release to another release, because sometimes it takes 15 years of retro-engineering to figure out how to dump something properly, you should search cps2 emulation history, it's quite interesting.
Today I learned.
Okay, how about something more feasible?
I still think we need a way to make this painless for people in the future. There are thousands of ROMs available for multiple arcade emulators.
i think the best we can do is what we're already doing - focus on the arcade emulators that best suit the pi series and make sure they're working as well as possible. with a pi2-3 you shouldn't need anything but lr-mame2003 or lr-fbalpha. if you only picked one of those you'd have pretty much anything most people would want from the 2d arcade era.
Edit: Stupid question: If lr-fbalpha is based on a newer MAME core and plays more games and also supports libretro, then why wouldn't that be the primary recommended arcade emulator?
lr-fbalpha isn't based on a MAME core as such, it just uses a subset of the same romset.
lr-fbalpha doesn't support the breadth of older titles that standard mame cores do - mostly focused on fighting and shmup games, although that list is expanding.
similarly, mame(2003) doesn't support some games that fbalpha does, especially romhacks (which it supports none really)
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@juice
Would you be willing to share this list of games? :)
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