SNK was certainly a victim of piracy.? Probably 70% of the so-called fans who loved SNK never paid a penny to play the latest release of a KOF game.? I remember the roms being released literally a few days after the games release.? Without new hardware, SNK was f*cked before they could even think.? When they brought out new hardware, no emulator could touch it, unfortunately, the consumers didn’t want to touch it anyway.? Tough break. The youtuber below is playing using his SFIV stick.? The question that remains in my mind is, so what? It doesn’t seem to recognise any input other than the mouse and keyboard too… I have to force my video card not to scale the display, though, otherwise the image gets scaled and the quality suffers. I’ve been running it on my Windows box at home (Core 2 Quad 3.0Ghz, nVidia GeForce GTX275) and it runs pretty well.
The loader being used here is basically simulating the hardware dongle so that the software can be loaded on any old Windows computer. The only special things are obviously the specialized hardware as well as a hardware dongle that must be present for games to be booted. The Type-X2 hardware is already basically an x86 PC running Windows XP embedded. It’s not so much an emulator as a loader. Taito Type x2 has been emulated / hacked / bootlegged.? What does this mean to us? Not much.