Question: I would love to have the following setup: a chromecast-style dongle running some emulator with a bunch of roms, plugged into the HDMI port of a tv; a couple of wifi controllers to play.
Is it possible?
MAME 0.151 ROMs
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#32Question: I would love to have the following setup: a chromecast-style dongle running some emulator with a bunch of roms, plugged into the HDMI port of a tv; a couple of wifi controllers to play. Is it possible?
Does it HAVE to be a dongle? The Ouya works great for this.
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#33Question: I would love to have the following setup: a chromecast-style dongle running some emulator with a bunch of roms, plugged into the HDMI port of a tv; a couple of wifi controllers to play. Is it possible?
It's called Raspberry Pi.
Check out PiMAME or RetroPie. The Raspberry Pi can emulate a lot of the stuff out there.
Most of the things it can't emulate are too recent anyway.
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#34Anyone else surprised that the size of the ZIP is 42+ GB? I'm thinking these are pre-1990 games (i.e. Street Fighter 2 does not seem like abandonware just yet). Assuming a very generous average of 5MB per zipped ROM, that's 8,400 vintage arcade games in there.
This doesn't include the Hard Drive images (CHD files) for the more recentish games where the rom was just a bootstrap to get to the game code on the disk.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
We've been having a very large discussion about this on the IGDA preservation SIG discussion list http://wiki.igda.org/Game_Preservation_SIG What it comes down to is that Jason Scott, at Archive, is fearless. He saves EVERYTHING. If you think putting these MAME ROMS on Internet Archive is ballsy, check out what else he's put on there: https://archive.org/details/tosec The standard policy, as he explained it to me, is…
Thanks for you post. I was unclear about what was going on with Archive.org. Fascinating. I believe I'll donate to them.
I looked it up after reading your comment, and they're receiving donations right now that will be matched 3x (!) by an anonymous donor... they're just shy of a million bucks...
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#36Question: I would love to have the following setup: a chromecast-style dongle running some emulator with a bunch of roms, plugged into the HDMI port of a tv; a couple of wifi controllers to play. Is it possible?
It's called Raspberry Pi. Check out PiMAME or RetroPie. The Raspberry Pi can emulate a lot of the stuff out there. Most of the things it can't emulate are too recent anyway.
you beat me to it. I just logged in to post about raspberry pi. any idea what wireless controllers are supported?
additionally most chinese android tv dongles can run mame games.
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#37Question: I would love to have the following setup: a chromecast-style dongle running some emulator with a bunch of roms, plugged into the HDMI port of a tv; a couple of wifi controllers to play. Is it possible?
A softmodded Wii will easily do this, and you can get them secondhand for cheap these days.
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#38I wish they shared this a torrent. Their server is clearing getting hammered as I'm getting 10k down, which will take 9+ days to complete...
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#40In case the site has any issues (it was super slow grabbing the torrent file for me):
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