Yeah, I was excited about the new additions to pc in this bundle until I saw that DotEmu was involved. Their emulation of that Irem arcade pack they did was awful. That was enough for me.

You two are making me sad. I may do it anyway.

KOF 14 looks like it's going to be a tragedy as well. I really wish the SNK fighters had been treated better over the years and had a brighter future. Some of the SNK characters are fantastic, but the current IP holders don't seem to be capable of doing much beyond trying milking the brand.

So I uh. I looked at one of the games in the bundle... and DotEmu used a modified version of Nebula (a freeware emulator) as a basis for their own one. It also has um. Um. Gametap stuff.

https://twitter.com/Foxhack/status/674371627103096832

https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/674402562498387968

https://twitter.com/Phase4_/status/674411081360535552
...

This can't be real. It just CAN'T. Be real.

So they basically ripped off Digital Eclipse's emulator they used for the long defunct Gametap? Christ...

Just to put a stop to the speculation, I tested Metal Slug and Garou a few moments ago. Both run perfectly under MAME. I would be greatly surprised if the same didn't hold for the other games, sans the Steam-only, WIndows-only two. The ROM sizes roughly match the ahoy-matey copies, 13 and 80 MB, respectively.

What do you need to do to set it up? I'm obviously not too savvy with this stuff.

Thank you for weighing in! It's good to know they are working well at least in one confirmed setup.

Well that's great news because that means there's hope. However, it isn't working for me OotB. Anything special about your setup?

Not at all. How did you run it? I did

$ sdlmame -rp $(pwd)

because it was being stubborn about relative paths. If I had to guess, you copied it somewhere where it doesn't see the NeoGeo BIOS - in my case, it shows up alongside the game.

Edit:
Attached screenshot.
Somehow your post didn't show up for me until now, sorry. There's nothing special about it, unpack what you get from Humble, it'll contain the game ROM and the NeoGeo BIOS. Copy to your dedicated ROM folder or point MAME (or whatever emulator you're using) to it.

Oh, right; I forgot it needed that. Still no luck when I copy everything to the ROM folder though.

Alright, thanks. I know the rom's pretty much the same as the old file, I just need to figure out what I'm doing wrong this time. I never really used MAME, and I was using the same old version of NeoRageX for years.

Did you copy the provided BIOS as well?

It might have to do something with the version of MAME. Mine is pretty old (0.145u4), as the newer ones simply stopped working for me.

That did the trick! Downloaded v0.145
Thanks.

If copyright was a more reasonable length, then owning the original games wouldn't matter. Since i've been watching a few Adam Ruins everything, this one comes up that's related. The whole reason to have such a long copyright is to milk something as long as possible, since at what point does copyright extending 70 years after you die help you financially? (I suppose you could Will it to your children... or grand children...)
When a large majority of spammers are using such emails, it's easier to ban the domain.

As much as i love seeing every game entry as DRM-free, i can't justify buying the bundle myself as i can't see myself playing ANY of these games. Maybe 10-15 years ago when i played this stuff a lot more, or as a teen. But now?

Far more likely they have an emulator that can run on flash or something, and it loads the emulator and either a stripped version of the rom or the entire thing (not like they are going to be that big...). Think of it like watching YouTube videos, there isn't a custom player made for every video, instead there's one player that acts as a middleman and it's told which video to access..