{"id":2723,"date":"2006-08-29T22:40:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T02:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/29\/mame-is-lame\/"},"modified":"2006-08-29T22:41:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T02:41:09","slug":"mame-is-lame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/29\/mame-is-lame\/","title":{"rendered":"mame is lame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suddenly got a retrogaming jones on, and had a strong need to play Robotron. So I downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mame.net\/\">MAME<\/a> and some ROMs, but no dice &#8212; every archive was missing files. Seems that to get the few games I need, I have to download a 16<strong>GB<\/strong> torrent of ever game that MAME supports.<\/p>\n<p>My arcade game sensors withered about 18 years ago, so nothing past about 1988 registers with me. You could probably fit every pre-&#8217;88 ROM onto a couple of floppies. And it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m not allowed to play the ancient Williams games; I have the <em>Arcade Classics<\/em> CD somewhere which has the games in licensed (but MAME-incompatible) form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suddenly got a retrogaming jones on, and had a strong need to play Robotron. So I downloaded MAME and some ROMs, but no dice &#8212; every archive was missing files. Seems that to get the few games I need, I have to download a 16GB torrent of ever game that MAME supports. My arcade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[189,1094,48,895,572,1262,509,1113,845,1031,365,1345],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-ago","tag-ancient","tag-archive","tag-cad","tag-cd","tag-download","tag-gis","tag-ice","tag-lame","tag-low","tag-red","tag-ren"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-HV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}