The History, The Failure, and The Emulation of: Polygonet Commanders
343NOTE 1: Subtitles will be added in a few days, once I have time to breathe.
NOTE 2: There's a known sequencing error; "Atari followed suit a year later with Hard Drivin'" with respect to the initial launch of Namco's System 21 board, not Air Combat from 1992.
After getting the emulation of Polygonet Commanders and Poly-Net Warriors working in June 2022, the game seemed obscure enough, and had taken enough time and effort to get working, that it was worth making a video about.
I leave it up to anyone watching this to decide whether the video's any good or not; I made it because I found it an interesting story to tell. It was a learning process, and any videos in the future should go a lot smoother.
I don't have any expectations, but in case anyone wants to get in touch or show their support -
My Mastodon: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@TheMogMiner
My Bird-Site: https://twitter.com/TheMogMiner
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/moogly
Be excellent to each other, and I'll catch y'all down in the comments.
Chapters:
00:00 Part 1 - Intro
01:21 Part 2 - Arcade 3D for All
05:10 Part 3 - How to Be Forgotten
08:18 Part 4 - The Road to Nowhere
11:15 Part 5 - Perseverence Through Insomnia
18:08 Part 6 - The Gang's All Here
Contributing developers' blogs and MAME-related YouTube channels:
R. Belmont: https://rbelmont.mameworld.info/ and https://www.youtube.com/@MESSDrivers
Andrew Gardner: https://ajg.mameworld.info/
Phil Bennett: https://youtube.com/@PhilBennett3D
Haze: https://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/ and https://www.youtube.com/@MameHaze
Vas Crabb: http://rants.vastheman.com/
Other contributing developers' bird-site pages:
Olivier Galibert: https://twitter.com/o_galibert
Phil Bennett: https://twitter.com/PhilBennett3D
Videos used under license from Shutterstock.com.
Most other videos used under Creative Commons license from Pexels.com.
Assembled, edited, and rendered using Kdenlive.
"Cait Sith's Theme [Remastered]" is used with permission of the original uploader, Sean Schafianski: https://www.youtube.com/@sschafi1