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Now that MAME and various other emulators can be used in browsers, the plethora of video-game-play videos out there strike me as a bit of a bandwidth waste. e.
by beloch 11y ago
Now that MAME and various other emulators can be used in browsers, the plethora of video-game-play videos out there strike me as a bit of a bandwidth waste.
e.g. The HD stream of this video is 64 MB. The install files for the Amiga version of Turican 2 are about 1 MB.
How awesome would it be if there was a site where you could record an emulator play-session that would be played back for other people using emulation rather than captured video/sound? Not only would such a site use far less bandwidth, it could have some killer features like, "TAKE CONTROL". i.e. Say you're watching somebody's play-through of an an old game. When you get the urge to actually play that game, it's just a single click away!
There's definitely an opportunity here.
- hoodoof 11y ago>> There's definitely an opportunity here. A technical opportunity, not a business opportunity.
- CM30 11y agoThat's a very neat idea for a service, and it could definitely be viable for some games, but I don't think it could be a solution for most of them. Why? Copyright reasons. The companies behind a lot of mainstream video games see videos with music from their games as more acceptable than links to actually play said games online. So if you want to offer music from say; Zelda or Final Fantasy or Mario or Sonic or whatever else, then something like this is a non starter.
- cLeEOGPw 11y ago> bandwidth waste. Bandwidth is cheaper than developer's time.