Dames of Daytona and Viceroys of Virtua Fighter,
Baronesses of Bass and Lords of the Lost World!
Welcome all to the official new Supermodel Forum. As of 2023, the Supermodel project is 20 years old! Hard to believe, isn't it? The project was started in 2003 by Stefano Teso, "Ville Linde", and myself, initially working independently, and then joining forces after being made aware of each others' efforts. The project went dormant within a few years and a MAME driver was produced by Ville. For years, Model 3 received little attention until in late 2010, as a frustrated PhD student looking for an escape hatch, I decided to rewrite it and released the first official public version on April 1, 2011. And so Supermodel was granted a second life -- and I think it's fair to say the project has been a dazzling success since then.
In recent years, I've been proud to discover that the number of users is much larger than I thought, and I'd like to thank each and every one of you for your continued support. I unfortunately have little time to contribute directly these days but thanks to the efforts of Ian Curtis, Matthew Daniels, Nik Henson, "Harry Tuttle", and others over the years, Supermodel is better than I ever could have made it on my own! I hope the project lasts at least another 20 years
This forum is intended to bring together fans of Supermodel and that magical era of arcade gaming it seeks to preserve. The old forum was unfortunately broken by a necessary server upgrade and is still archived here. Here's hoping this one has an even more vibrant future!
Thank you,
Bart
Although emulation is very close to perfect these days.
emulation must have been such a challenge .. even running in debug mode with relatively sane speeds. GPUs have also come a very long way in 20 years, what is possible now in the way of emulation would simply not have been possible back then.
They're all archived (albeit not easily searchable).