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Hi Guys & Gals..
A couple of friends and I are setting up a man cave and would like to know....
If we have 4 cpu on a lan is it possible to set up the game Daytona USA on mame to be played in the 4 computers but the same game connected(multiplayer), like it used to be on the arcades?
Not really interested on going online, just a home LAN
Thanks for your time.
I don't know about net play, but i can read the docs and this is what it says(quoted at bottom).
for netplay you may need a unoffical forked version of mame that incorporates or usess a netplay plugin. I never looked into it tho. when it comes to any unoffical net support tho, just keep in mind theres always a possibliity of privacy intrusion from incorporated hidden malware. unless you have a very reliable source. Tho if the LAN for this purpose is not hooked to the net, it wouldn't matter... I can only assume there must be tones of mame forks out there, some of them must be reliable aswell, tho I cannot tell you witch. Someone else who has experimented with them will have to tell you that.
If you have the ability to just stick a few video cards into one computer, so you can output 4 displays.. that may do the job, as the listed commands bellow should work if the game is fully emulated i would assume. I never tried multi-display with it tho.
EDIT: Oh yeah and, fyi.. netplay of LAN or WAN is basically done the same way, except you have much less lag on LAN... just mentioning since it sounded as you thought LAN would make a difference.
Quote:
mamefolder\docs\config | windows
-showusage / -su
Displays a summary of all the command line options. For options that
are not mentioned here, the short summary given by "mame -showusage"
is usually sufficient.
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-numscreens <count>
Tells MAME how many output windows to create. For most games, a single
output window is all you need, but some games originally used multiple
screens. Each screen (up to 4) has its own independent settings for
physical monitor, aspect ratio, resolution, and view, which can be
set using the options below. The default is 1.
-screen <display>
-screen0 <display>
-screen1 <display>
-screen2 <display>
-screen3 <display>
Specifies which physical monitor on your system you wish to have each
window use by default. In order to use multiple windows, you must have
increased the value of the -numscreens option. The name of each
display in your system can be determined by running MAME with the
-verbose option. The display names are typically in the format of:
\\.\DISPLAYn, where 'n' is a number from 1 to the number of connected
monitors. The default value for these options is 'auto', which means
that the first window is placed on the first display, the second
window on the second display, etc.
The -screen0, -screen1, -screen2, -screen3 parameters apply to the
specific window. The -screen parameter applies to all windows. The
window-specific options override values from the all window option.
