I'm wondering how BIG those MPeg2 files are going to be. It probably won't be too long before the Romz Warez folks are spreading those around. Then of course I'm thinking there are probably some hardware rom images themselves which will probably need to be dumped (and in most cases, pirated.) I actually have a Video Laserdisc player. This would certainly be a lot of fun to play with but unless I yoink the disc out of an arcade cabinet, I doubt I'll be able to get ahold of a legal copy of the Laserdisc.

Download LaserDisc Roms for use with Daphne. Download Emulators. LaserDisc based arcade Roms for use with the emulator Daphne. Archived from groups: alt.video.laserdisc (More info?) Where can I download mpeg's for Daphne Emulator? Games Such as Dragon's Lair. Daphne - Arcade - Laser.

Unless someone knows someplace you can purchase them? Q: I'm confused.

If I am using a laserdisc player, do I play DAPHNE with my computer monitor or do I use a TV or what? A: DAPHNE, when used with a laserdisc player, uses a TV (or VCR) for output. What you do is plug a laserdisc player into your computer, then you plug a TV into your laserdisc player. You control the game using your computer's joystick or keyboard, but you watch the action on your TV. The arcade game worked like this too; it didn't do any of its own graphics, it relied exclusively on the laserdisc player for the video. Ahhhh so i'll need an all in wonder card or something to have everything in my PC, along with the laser disc and laser disc player.

The type of industrial (not consumer)laserdisc player used in the arcade systems incorporated a RS-232 port so the game hardware could control the LD player. Keep an eye out at Goodwill, they occasionally get industrial LD players in stock whenever a company decides they no longer require one Specifically, the model used in Dragon's Lair and Space Ace, was the Pioneer PR-7820, a real antique. 3d Pantograph Plans Pdf. There are probably several others that could be used, but I'm unsure of if there was a 'approved player' list of compatible manufacturers and models.

Have you read the mplayer mailing list? Hell even the homepage.

I understand how 100 of the same questions in the mail can get irritating but it has to be expected on a public project. While the superficial point of public created software is to create software that is useful, I'd like to think it's more about sharing information and community spirit. Alot of people do RTFM, but if they felt comfortable (or got what they needed from the manual) they wouldn't have taken the time to post to a mailing list, or ask the developer a question. QUOTE: Q: Why should I have to put up with being flamed just for trying to get some information? Short Answer: Because you're a guest asking for free technical support for a free product.

Long Answer: No one is forcing you to visit the site, send any email, post on the message board, or use the emulator. One of the perks of running a free project is that you answer to no one and do things in your own time and in your own way. True, it can be frustrating for end users, but that's just the way it is. END QUOTE And then they wonder why corps are leery of open source projects. Nice mentality there guys. I am not sure why you chose to accuse all laserdisc collectors of 'REALLY REALLY [hating]' anyone who isn't near their level of knowledge, and I find this stereotype unfortunate.

Perhaps my wording in the FAQ is a little bit strong, but I don't think I ever said that I hated newbies or uninformed people. I just said that our primary goal is to develop the emulator, and not to answer FAQ's all day. If you think that we should be spending our time answering FAQ's instead of writing the emulator, then I guess we will have to agree to disagree on that point. MACH 3 was awesome.

Lost alot of money on that one. Another game that was similar to that was based on one of my favorite 80's movies Firefox with Clint Eastwood. It was also a laser game with computer graphic overlays on real terrain. Link here: and here: m l and then one for MACH 3: BTW, the *real* Mig 31 turned out to be an interesting aircraft. Still, I dream that someone will build this one:-). Are the any movements afoot to emulate non-CPU games? I've was looking to download Death Race (1975 game that had you and a partner try to run down as many pedestrians as possible -- whoever mowed down the most, won), and apparently it was made of all discrete components without a CPU.

There are apparently a number of machines like that. I also wonder if it even makes sense to emulate something like that (do you import the schematic?) in a general sort of way, or would you have to write a simulator for each unit. Such games are no more difficult to emulate than any other games. In fact, Pong was one of the first games emulated by MAME. It's in older versions of MAME, in improved versions of recent builds of MAME called FixMAME, and it's been emulated accurately in its many different forms, both arcade and home, by several other emulators. The reason that Pong was dropped and support for other discrete-circuitry games was dropped isn't technical, it's legal.

The MAME devs decided that emulating a whole discrete-circuitry game--meaning that MAME would play that game without needing to download any external ROMs at all-- would keep MAME open to easier legal attack. So they removed Pong and drew an arbitrary distinction between all-circuitry games and games that have ROMs. They arbitrarily call all-circuitry games 'simulated' games rather than emulated--a very stupid distinction since, to run the ROMs on the emulated machines in MAME, MAME simulated a whole lot of discrete circuitry. What they really should have done is create a plug-in framework for discrete-circuitry games, so that the emulated/simulated circuitry could be packaged in a zip file and downloaded just like ROMs are.

That way they could avoid the legal pitfall while still preserving the oldest games, those with discrete circuitry, which are also those most in need of preservation. I find it hypocritical that the MAME devs claim that MAME is made for the purpose of preserving our arcade heritage before the machines are too far gone, and yet they spend their time emulating Golden Tee games that you can still find in any sports bar today (they're in the source code, but disabled since they're still being sold), and yet refuse to emulate the 70s classics that used discrete circuits and are disappearing all the time. Sure, developers can spend their time working on whatever they want and blah blah blah, but it's still hypocritical to emulate games that are still being sold and refuse to emulate games that are disappearing, and claim you're doing it all to preserve our arcade heritage. What a crock of shit. They emulate what they want to play, with no regard for the games that are really in danger--the oldest arcade games, almost all of which have discete circuits and no ROMs. So instead of finding a way around the legal issues, like a plug-in system, they draw an arbitrary line in the sand and claim that they shouldn't emulate the hardware of these games because it would be a 'simulation'--as if the emulated hardware that ROMs run on is real, not simulated? Forgive me if I get a little pissed, but I'm annoyed that a project which claims to be for arcade preservation is letting the foundation of the arcade business disappear, mostly because they enjoy playing Golden Tee and such more than really preserving the 70s classics.

The discrete circuitry games are largely difficult to find, except for a few of the most popular like pong and Breakout. And even so, how many people under 25 have ever seen and played the real, original Breakout, the game that started a whole genre and was worked on by some big-name people like Woz? MAME should stop cutting our arcade gaming heritage into arbitrary slices and saying, if it has a ROM we'll emulate it but if it doesn't we won't; if it has a Laserdisc we won't emulate it (a driver was submitted that works with the DVD version of Dragon's Lair, but will not be included in MAME); etc. On a better note, the discrete circuitry classic Monaco GP has been quite well emulated recently by a stand-alone emulator, and there's even a version of MAME available that has it hacked in (FixMAME). It's a much more complicated game than Pong--in fact, about as complicated as you can get with discrete circuits alone. So it's a great accomplishment, and I hope more people will follow with similar projects, despite lack of encouragement by MAME. Ah yes, I remember when Dragon's Lair came out.

Using the laserdisk was a big step ahead over the resolution/image complexity/etc you could get in other video games at the time. And there was a lot of hype about how soon your video game would feature your favorite actors instead of crude cartoons and the like. I guess it hasn't really happened like that very much, but it is true that video games have gotten a lot more visually sophisticated - back in the old days the only *really* nice graphics were on the package (or the side/top of the console in the arcade). Other posts have indicated that Cliff Hanger is not available yet. When I was 10 I was addicted to that game. I still have a little journal entry I made in a short-lived journal I started at that time, which has the first 30 or so moves in it. I could never beat the Ninjas though.

I suppose that now I'll find the whole thing is a piece of cake, like all video games that I thought were so difficult when I was young and have since revisited to beat my old high score of 15 years ago on the very first try. Mmm, as someone who could beat Cliff Hanger only dying once I think there was a bug with the ninjas. All of the hard core players I knew agreed that it was impossible to finish that scene without dying the first time. When you restarted the scene after death, it worked fine. I never knew anyone who could finish the game without dying once at the ninjas, but since I lived in a small town with only one copy of the game, it might have been that particular console. That seems odd too though.

*shrug* I wrote an Apple II program that required you to type in all the moves to continue on as my way of memorizing the game without actually spending money. 'Twas a stupid game, but Lupin is cool.

I just got this one installed on my computer. I haven't been able to explore all of the games to finish yet, but the one's I've played are superb. Dragon's Lair 1&2, Mach 3, and Firefox(not emulated.yet?) were the only working ones that I saw back in the day, though I did help a tech convert one into a Space Ace, it never made it out of the back room, due to a series problems(I'll never forget the look on the Mike's[the tech] face when he shorted out a &1200.00 board ). I'm still a newb with Daphne, and haven't checked to see if it's an on-going project still, but if you crave to play them, this is the way to go. Gameplay for some of the LD games is less than your average classic game, but everyone should experience them at least once. My kids and their friends were impressed with the graphics, which says just how far ahead of the times they were.

I'll post an update in the future, after I get some more experience with it. The files are huge, but it did work on the very first try! Mark Alpiger / MDA / MDARULZ - 'Advocate for the players' Crystal Castles arcade ex-wr holder, now #2: 898,815, finished game; The Glob (theglobp) MAME wr holder: 184,242, screen 15; Tetris Plus 2 (tetrisp2, p.m.) MAME wr holder: 1,982,900, finished game; 1987 Guinness book listing for Crystal Castles: achieved score of 881,306 was both the contest, and the world, record 38 major arcade contests / tournaments attended: this began in 1985, and includes co-organizing and running 17 out of the 38 Named a 'historian' of classic arcade gaming by Walter Day (2004) and Paul Dean (2007). We had other threads about daphne this past year mark. Not sure where they are.can search for them. It definitely was in one of threads relative to Richie Knuckles' place.

I helped him with some customer configuration to allow for the joystick to be used to select skill level in Space ace for example.instead of being stuck playing just the cadet level which is missing half the scenes and difficulty. I also have batch files for easy launching of each game I have(DK, Space Ace, Cliff Hanger) without having to go through the trouble of the daphneloader app. Yep, I know that Daphne's been mentioned elsewhere, but the setup being a pain was something that I remember being referenced, and since Daphne is up to a whole number, versus decimal only, I figured this release might have addressed a lot of issues. That's one reason for my post, and, if anyone upgrades, or tries it for the first time, chime in with comments. Well, thanks for your post, Brian - too bad you're having trouble. Was it an older version, or did you try 1.0?? I can't volunteer Mark Boolman to help, but perhaps he would assist you, if you.

Mark Alpiger / MDA / MDARULZ - 'Advocate for the players' Crystal Castles arcade ex-wr holder, now #2: 898,815, finished game; The Glob (theglobp) MAME wr holder: 184,242, screen 15; Tetris Plus 2 (tetrisp2, p. Download Hay Day Mod Apk Free. m.) MAME wr holder: 1,982,900, finished game; 1987 Guinness book listing for Crystal Castles: achieved score of 881,306 was both the contest, and the world, record 38 major arcade contests / tournaments attended: this began in 1985, and includes co-organizing and running 17 out of the 38 Named a 'historian' of classic arcade gaming by Walter Day (2004) and Paul Dean (2007). Mark Alpiger / MDA / MDARULZ - 'Advocate for the players' Crystal Castles arcade ex-wr holder, now #2: 898,815, finished game; The Glob (theglobp) MAME wr holder: 184,242, screen 15; Tetris Plus 2 (tetrisp2, p.m.) MAME wr holder: 1,982,900, finished game; 1987 Guinness book listing for Crystal Castles: achieved score of 881,306 was both the contest, and the world, record 38 major arcade contests / tournaments attended: this began in 1985, and includes co-organizing and running 17 out of the 38 Named a 'historian' of classic arcade gaming by Walter Day (2004) and Paul Dean (2007).