Hi all, I know I spoke about this back some time ago, but just wanted to ask around if anyone has heard anything lately as to what the status is for the games below being emulated.

Regards, Steve Krogman

1) Dr. Mario (nintendo) 2) Super Mario Bros. (nintendo) 3) Excite Bike (nintendo) 4) Columns (sega) 5) Tetris + Bomblis (not sure) 6) Bust a Move 2 (neo geo?) 7) Hamerin' Harry (not sure) 8) Off the Wall (sega?) 9) Arkanoid Tournement ver. (taito) 10) Can't remember the name of this very old b/w game, but it was a motorcycle game that had the screen split up into 3 levels. The first one on the bottom you cruised along. Then you came out of the opposite side but on the 2nd level at a faster speed, and then at the opposite end on the top level super fast, and then had to jump like Evil Kenival over some barrels (I think). It was a cool game for b/w and can't believe it hasn't been emulated yet, unless it slipped right past me not knowing of it. PS I'm not talking about excitebike. This game was ancient!!

Note: There are also a bunch of really good shooters (raiden series) that came out before alot of the newer neo geo games and was wondering if they plan on being emulated anytime soon.

-- stephen krogman (skrogman@concentric.net), May 02, 1999

Answers

I assume most of the nintendo games are of the vs series. There is work being done on a mame driver for that, and rumours has it that we will see this driver in the 0.36 beta cycle. Bust a move 2 is not a neogeo game,but its in raine,so i suppose we will see it in Mame one day. No idea about the other games you mention.

Stig

-- Stig Remnes (sremnes@samsen.com), May 03, 1999.