SlugO
March 16th, 2006, 05:45 AM
Maybe this should rather go on the MAME forums but they don't seem the friendliest in the world and they've told NOT to ever ask about netplay so I'll just post it here...
So am I the only one who would really like to play MAME games on the net? It would be so awesome to be able to play Metal Slugs online with a friend :D
But MAME developers have a... not so positive attitude towards netplay.
Here's a quote from MAME's FAQ:H09. Can I play two-player games over the Internet?
Officially, no. Empirical evidence shows that netplay tends to attract the wrong kind of people. Netplay is also seen as a novelty feature with no development value, so the main developers are not interested in implementing it.
A project called MAMEnet was underway to make it possible to play over the Net, but it hasn't seen any progress since 1999. There was also an unofficial hacked up version of MAME called MAME32k that supported Internet play with the Kaillera program, but apparently that one has died out as well.
Do not ask for such a feature to be implemented, and do not ask us for any support using 3rd party programs.
I'd really like to see this empirical evidence and learn who these wrong kind of people are...:???:
People with friends? :mrgreen:
So it's pretty obvious that they're not interested in adding netplay to MAME.
Are there any 3rd party programs that would allow this?
So am I the only one who would really like to play MAME games on the net? It would be so awesome to be able to play Metal Slugs online with a friend :D
But MAME developers have a... not so positive attitude towards netplay.
Here's a quote from MAME's FAQ:H09. Can I play two-player games over the Internet?
Officially, no. Empirical evidence shows that netplay tends to attract the wrong kind of people. Netplay is also seen as a novelty feature with no development value, so the main developers are not interested in implementing it.
A project called MAMEnet was underway to make it possible to play over the Net, but it hasn't seen any progress since 1999. There was also an unofficial hacked up version of MAME called MAME32k that supported Internet play with the Kaillera program, but apparently that one has died out as well.
Do not ask for such a feature to be implemented, and do not ask us for any support using 3rd party programs.
I'd really like to see this empirical evidence and learn who these wrong kind of people are...:???:
People with friends? :mrgreen:
So it's pretty obvious that they're not interested in adding netplay to MAME.
Are there any 3rd party programs that would allow this?