Finally got off my arse to give my MAME set a good update and clean today and i've been stopping allong the way to check out some stuff added in the last few version that grabbed my attention.
First stop was Bishi Bashi, button-mashing videogame equivelent of Banzai. Its all in Japanese and the incomplete graphics emulation makes some of it unplayable, but its a right laff as well as being completly fucking mad. Will be keeping an eye out for any improvements to it.
Then moved on to the games on Playstation-based boards that have been added recently. Allot lack sound due to undocumented Namco audio hardware and most are unplayable with anything lower then the current top-end of machines, but the all look damn good emulation-wise. Much improvement on half-arsed video card pipelining, they'll be no excuse for any of that in a year or so for this stuff.
Stuff to return to includes Erghiez (Which looks like somesort of Japenese bare-knuckle boxing game), Mr.Driller (Dig Dug meets Columns) and Aquarush (Tetris with Water, but much better then Wetrix). I'll probably hammer these in the next version of Zinc when it comes out as a stopgap until my next PC.
Havent looked into the Seattle games yet, still getting CHDs for half of them and none of them appeal outside of technical interest. Talking of CHDs, was miffed to find out that my Area 51 image has been crap since I got it but managed to slip througth the looser standards in previous versions. Another 500 meg to download, shit happens.
Just noticed that emuchina has got the mpeg LD rips for Daphne, so i'll be giving Dragons Lair and Space Ace a whirl when i've done with MAME. Even worse size to gameplay ratio then mid-90s Atari, but havent played them since the 80s and its better then paying for the DVDs.