Ever wanted to play a 2-player / co-op game but you had no one to play it with?
So, I've thought about this for some time now and I wanted to throw it out there to see what other people think about it. Yes, MAMEHub is another variation of MAME but it's also different as it's a network version. I imagine any scores would strictly be simultaneous doubles / 2-players / co-op ONLY. So no reason to even think about a donkey kong or Pac-Man 2 player game as those games take turns. It would just be nice to have 2 of the greatest players team up to play a game such as Mario Bros., Bubble Bobble, Joust, Wizard of Wor, Gauntlet (3 or 4 players?) or Contra as one person may live in South Carolina and the other person may live in California and would other wise never meet in person to set a score besides be able to practice co-op play ahead of time.
I say MAMEHub stays in it's own category and is never combined or added to the current MAME scores. It's another way to help gamer's out by giving them the opportunity to submit a score in co-op fashion.
How did I come up with this idea? Simply from myself and Steven Kleisath practicing for the Orlando, Free Play Florida event this November 2014 as we will be shooting for 2 world records on Mario Bros. for regular play and NO POW doubles. If you take his high score and my high score on this game you would end up with a combine score of over 8 million. However, if we had no way to practice before this event then I can guarantee you we may not even get one of these two scores. Being able to use a network version of MAME has been the real key. It's been a frustrating journey at times as MAMEHub is not always perfect but it does work. Maybe some games run better than others as well but I'm not sure. It's still been extremely helpful to practice on and we have even broken both records ahead of time on MAMEHub.
I'm also very open to any network MAME that may run better as I've only tried MAMEHub but I do like it.
Love, hate, thoughts or suggestions?