Games

Someone recently improved the CPU emulation for the CV1000 games in MAME so that the slowdown is more accurate, so I've been trying that out a bit. It feels pretty good to me, the games are definitely a lot more playable now! I'm not sure how accurate they are compared to the actual arcade PCBs, but for the games I've played the official ports of I haven't noticed anything strange. Although, the ports themselves don't always have the best accuracy. In any case it definitely seems good enough to seriously play now, so I've been practicing Espgaluda II. I don't think a 1cc is possible for me yet, but once I've finished practicing I think I can bring it down to 2 or 3 credits.

I also played some Melee netplay last night maybe against my better judgement. I love the game but it's hard to get invested when I can't enter locals. I really want to go play but it's so many people crammed into such a small space. I always wear a high quality respirator while I'm out but even so it's still not very safe, the TO's here treat COVID safety like an afterthought and do some half-ass "masks recommended, vax required" rule that wouldn't be meaningfully effective even if they actually ever enforced it at all. I hate being forced out of my hobby because the community thinks public safety and accessibility are optional, but I've tried discussing the issue with them and neither the organizers nor the players care and I can't host my own tourneys so I don't know what else to do.