3) The Li Jih Hwa (NAO) Interview
Interview conducted on the
12th October 1998
by Steve Jones.
| When did you first get into emulation? |
| The first emulator I had played(and I still seldom played with it) was Massage. But it was not until the summer of 1997, when I met with Thierry's System16 emulator had I entered the scene of emulator creation. |
| What emulators do you use on a regular basis and what's your favorite (excluding your own)? |
| No, but I like Genecyst and Massage and Magic Engine a lot. |
| And what game(s) do you spend most time playing? |
| Not specically. I used to play adventure games before, King's Quest series and Monkey Islands series were my favorites. But I hardly find enough time to finish through one game. I also liked arcade shooting games(but acturally I enjoyed watching other's play more than my own play). |
| What system/game would you like to see emulated in the near future, and do you have any plans to emulate it yourself? |
| Sure for the NAMCO System86 and System2 games. Also for the KONAMI shooting games. Well :), if you meant which ones do I like most, I would say I like NAMCO games. |
| M72 took a lot of people by surprise (myself included) as there was no build up to it's release. Was it difficult to keep the project secret and was that intentional? |
| Well, at first I got an idea to improve RAGE's IREM game emulation. But later I made up my mind to write another one. The first version of M72 emulator was done in a very short time. I started to work on one Friday night, and before the sun of next Sunday rose, the first supported game: R-TYPE was running on my desktop(still no sounds then). Two weeks later, 0.20b was released from Thierry's page. So how did you think that I had kept it secret? :) I got a lot of helps from others, especially from Chris Hardy(Juno1st fame). He was really nice to provide many many useful informations. |
| What are your future (long term) development plans for M72? |
| Of course to add more games, I plan to emulate all IREM games from '87 to '92. A nice GUI will be the next target. |