http://finance.news.com.au/story/0,10166,1...5-31037,00.html much better and found on the same site. finally, now we shall see the destruction of walmart.
Check out Ville's WIP log for amazing screenshots of Star Wars Trilogy running in MAME! http://www.mameworld.net/vlinde/ (Thanks to Ooga from the MAME forums) Also see Luca's cutesey screenshots of the Spanish Taito game Animalandia Jr. http://www.lucaelia.com/mame.php (Thanks to R00n5t3r from the MAME forums) And last but not least, look at Haze's... interesting... Final Tetris WIP. http://haze.mameworld.info/
I did the laser tweak and have the lid off. I plan on buying a case that can handle full sized media as soon as a decent one comes out. As for the laser tweak, it was easy. Much easier than installing the chip even, and it made the dre's i was getting go away.
I've been using fstfix for quite a while, nice tool Btw, have you tried using dvd-r's? Supposedly those are suppose to work better (though nothing but +r's work on mine )
Most likely they do this because it would shoot their bandwidth usage through the roof to host a new mame version once every few weeks, and also they don't want to encourage people to use these Ux releases.