MAME v136

[Harrison]

78GB larger than the last one? I need more HDD space!

Or have they combined the CHD and LD-CHD sets together as that would add up to that size?

[Demon Cleaner]

Or have they combined the CHD and LD-CHD sets together as that would add up to that size?

I think so, perhaps soon will be the time to get rid of the Daphne set, if MAME fully emulates the LDs.

[Harrison]

Yep. However is MAME emulating all of Daphne's LD games yet? I've not checked.

[Demon Cleaner]

Yep. However is MAME emulating all of Daphne's LD games yet? I've not checked.

Don't know that either, but I think they should do 2 different sets, one only for MAME CHD files, and a second one only for the LD games, instead of merging them together.

[Harrison]

I agree. It is too large and I don't think everyone will be interested in wanting them all. Although you can pick which if the files form the torrent you wish to download, so if you only wanted a couple of games, or just the LD games, then you could still do it that way.

I for one am really mostly interested in the LD games rather than the rest of the HDD based CHD set for MAME as most of the other games still don't play well, or get boring fast. Only AvP and Area 51 really have any long term appeal to me. Whereas I can keep replaying the LD games over and over.

[Demon Cleaner]

But did you already try the LD games in MAME? I love the LD games, but as usual I don't have the time to play them. Dragon's Lair was my alltime favorite when it came out in the arcades, I was so overwhelmed, and I still love it. The other one I played was Space Ace, and I loved that too. I played them on the fair together with a friend, and we completed both of them with only one life easily. But there was a lot of exercise, and coin inputing before reaching that goal

[Harrison]

No, I've tried all of the LD games in Daphne, but not in MAME yet either. I have the separate LD set from 0.135, but due to them seemingly merging them for 0.136 I'm going to have to rearrange the contents of my HDDs on my download PC before I can update to this new larger set. Very annoying.

I remember you saying about Dragon's Lair and Space Ace and knowing the games so well you could complete them on a single life. Something which is impressive. I could never do that, although the Dragon's Lair cabinet close to where I lived had a slightly broken joystick and sometimes only accepted inputs if you rotated it, rather than moved it directly, which didn't help.