You are still only reading the quick overview. That’s only a small part of the actual regulation.
From the regulation:
It’s in the discussion section of the text of the regulation:
http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2006/71fr68472.html
stop whoring the thread with this garbage.
downloading roms has always been illegal , archiving your own is not. This is why their’s a notice each mame release explicitly stating that it’s meant for “educational” use.
… And it isn’t like we haven’t already paid for thirdstrike in our blood, sweat, tears, hard earned quarters, and from buying ports.
honestly, I don’t think anyone here actually cares whether using roms is legal or not.
That’s awesome news, I can’t wait to make my SF3:NG work again.
The plan that they made to emulate it seems very complicated, you’ll have to wait 30 minutes so the emulated CD will rec the data to a 90~100Mb NVRAM file.(Emulating the real process)
Probably you will not need to get a awesomely powerful computer, if you can emulate SFA3 perfectly I guess that there will be no problem emulating the CPS-3 games in your pc.
All you’ll need is a lot of RAM, because of the high number of different sprites that are in these games.
We will be playing CPS-3 games before next year, I guess.
This is pretty meaningless if they don’t improve network performance on kaillera. There is way too much delay the way it’s set-up now. For 2D fighters, it needs to be straight P2P like Zbattle is.
:rolleyes:
they have that for the DC emu… straight p2p
private servers are the way to go and i doubt they would change there netplay type. plus i dont feel delay on kaillera servers even in servers overseas(uk)
MAME is not tied to Kaillera at all. I’m pretty sure you can get a build of MAME with different netplay code,
MAME devs have been against kaillera or netplay from day one. they’ll never support it and it’s one of the reason kaillera hasn’t and probably won’t be updated.
Why?
If I recall they believe that kaillera really is something that supports piracy, something that they didn’t intend on supporting when they made the emulator. (At least I think this to be their official position.)
because mame is for “educational” purposes and not for piracy.
ignore what has been said why.
The real reason why is that the base MAME source tree is meant to be pure hardware only emulation.
They’re not opposed to netplay ever in MAME, they’re just opposed to it being in the main source tree.
this is why MAME is open source, so you can make that kind of modification.
Considering quite a few of the MAME devs have admitted to playing via Kaillera, I personally think it’s all a touch hypocritical.
Likewise if MAME truly was for educational purposes, it wouldn’t support keyboard/joystick input, nor output to a video framebuffer. Everything would be signal based, and it would be for hardware engineers only. Likewise the volume of dumped games would be one tenth what they are today.
I understand they need to protect their project, but it all gets a bit much to listen to some days.
I personally have used MAME and dumped ROMs to rescue broken gameboards, and can see it’s practical use outside of emulation-based gaming. But honestly, if that was it’s primary intention, the tools supplied around MAME would be so much more advanced than what’s currently available.
People in the past have suggested building code around MAME that could simulate PCB damage which would then give you a chip-accurate input/output scenario that you could match up with a real broken board. If you ask me, that’s a bloody brilliant idea, and a superb LEGAL use for MAME, i.e.: rescuing old gameboards and keeping ops going and arcades alive. Sadly such ideas are left for dead while more Korean Mahjong porn titles get emulated every day. Whatever.
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Um, guys, new CPS3 screens are up:
http://haze.mameworld.info/2007/06/16/cps3-colours/
:wow::nunchuck:
there moving fast on this project only thing left is sprites and bg
wow, that’s crazy… cant wait to play 3s on mame.