Is there any legal way of playing Arcade games?

[noiseredux]

It would be like having a box of raw shorn wool, a spinning wheel, some dried flowers, and some pointed metal rods, with no instructions versus a kit with several skeins of different colored yarn, needles, a pattern, and basic instructions on how to knit and expecting you to come up with a colorful sweater.

bad example. Some people would know exactly what to do with that stuff.

[RCBH928]

For most modern games, one company makes an engine. Another company licenses the engine and puts their graphics in it and tweaks the engine a little or adds things. There's usually lots of documentation on what everything does in the engine. For older games, the programming was a lot more in the guts of the machine. There was a lot less documentation and people that knew how to do it might have forgotten.

I realise what you are saying. I had another thread talking about game engines, and I was very surprised that in the days of Doom you had to create the engine that will make the game, then use it to build the actual game .

I guess the most convient way is to use ROMs. Given what you said I think soon we will start seeing games lost in history , like movies that no one cared to preserve and original copies got deteriorated.

[skate323k137]

Given what you said I think soon we will start seeing games lost in history , like movies that no one cared to preserve and original copies got deteriorated.

That's kinda the point of MAME, to emulate those games as accurately as possible to preserve them in at least a digital format.

[RCBH928]

Given what you said I think soon we will start seeing games lost in history , like movies that no one cared to preserve and original copies got deteriorated.

That's kinda the point of MAME, to emulate those games as accurately as possible to preserve them in at least a digital format.

Yeah, but there will always be those people who will be upset because a tiny single thing does not work EXACTLY like the original. Of course, I do not blame them as I myself got the same habit but outside the gaming world