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To make it clear right away, I have not found or written a Pippin emulator out of the blue. To my knowledge, the Pippin system remains largely unemulated. I have been able to create this setup because most of the Pippin library of games was compatible or had a version for Mac PPC's. So I have been able to use the Emulator Sheepshaver which works quite well with those games. That means that, despite the Pippin opening splash screen and sound, it doesn't really acts like a Pippin console as it starts in a Mac OS environment and we have to use a mouse to browse through folders and start games (and sometimes browse through multiple folders). Talking about games, they are mostly kiddie FMV stuff, a lot of them from Bandai, interactive videos or educational. Only a few games stand out but the keyboard and mouse controls are not always great compared to today's standards. So why bother ? The Pippin ended up an abject failure but is still an important part of the videogames history as it was the first and only attempt from Apple to make a gaming device. It had a very limited success in the US and fared just a little better in Japan, thanks to Bandai's lineup of games for the young ones. Back then, Apple probably thought that the CD player and FMV capability, and their name, would be enough to appeal to everybody but obviously it was not (same happened to the CDTV and many other CD based consoles of course). The setup is prepared for what we have to call Hyperspin 1 now. I don't know about a Sheepshaver module for Rocketlauncher so I have used the capabilities of PCLauncher and each games are launched via .bat files (Instructions in the downloads). I have included a Pippin.txt file with all the lines you have to copy/paste to your own PCLauncher.ini. If you don't do that, you will have to point out each games manually in the PCLauncher settings in Rocketlauncher. I don't know about the compatibility with HS2. It can probably launch bat files too but I have not tried myself. I had this system unfinished for a long time and Floatingyeti helped and motivated me to finish it. Floatingyeti also created the main and default themes (and a beautiful pointer) and was generally a great help to refine my project. The boxes have been created from a standard cd case and real covers and cd images from a template. Hope you will enjoy it. PIPPIN main.mp4 Pippin Default.mp4

Wheels for the Enterprise created by floatingyeti and me (and a few already existing ones). You can find the whole setup here:

Standardized cassettes for the Enterprise setup. Thanks to floatingyeti for providing the template. There are two sets in the zip file: One with squeezed images, so they fit correctly for a 16:9 screen and one with original sized images. The complete setup can be found here:

Full set of cassettes cases for the setup we have created with Floatingyeti for those who only want the artworks. Some of them were already existing, so credits goes to whoever created them. I had to create around half of them from covers or screenshots. You can find the complete setup here:

Here are 226 themes for MAME, built from their parent themes. I just modified them using the wheels created by Floatingyeti in his monthly updates to replace the titles and slightly reworked the animations or, sometimes the background or other things. Nothing fancy but it gives a different feel to these clone themes instead of using the exact same parent one. That brings the number of missing themes down to 180 see the project here: We have never been closer to completion (...that is until the next MAME update) !So once again I can only encourage everybody who would like to contribute, even newcomers or people who would like to start creating themes, to join us in trying to create the best set of themes possible for the MAME setup created by Floatingyeti. The remaining missing themes are not the easiest to create because of the lack of graphic materials available but that's also an opportunity to express a lot of imagination and creativity. The missing list of themes is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14WPJcUc8Y9wwU6a54onfEOPuSqsF45UJztxGyy3AjEk/edit?gid=0#gid=0 Finally, here is the list of themes contained in the zip files. Credits and congratulations goes to all the themes creators who have done such a great and unique job along the years ! Most of the themes are in 4:3 format and a few in 16:9 atetb5205 bagmanm3 bombjackbl bongoa bongog chimeraba condorva ddragonja driblingam etoa euroch92j ffight3b2 flickyb flickyupa fmaniac2p froggeg galaxiamv gallag galmonst galturbo galwars2 gatsbee gblchmp gensitou geostorma gorfirec gorfpgm1f grdiansbl grdnstrmj greatgur grescue griffon gteikoku gunbalina gussun hachooj htherou hustlerb7 hyprolyma invasion invasiona jackalj jumpbugbrf jumpingi kchamp2p kinstsnes kizuna4p knightb kosmokil kovsgqyzb ktiger2 leadang leaguemna legofair lithero lkagem magdropp maguila magworm majuu manxttdx mcwars meikyuh meikyuhbl meteor meteors millpac mltiwars mnchmobl monkeyd moonbasea mooncrs4 mooncrsl motorace mranger mrdrilr2j mrlo mspacmanbgc mspacmanbgd mspacmanbgf mspacmanbhe mspacmanhnc mspactwina myherok nbaatw nbajamp2 nbajamtep2 nebulbee nemoj nextfase nzeroteama oedfight offensiv ogonsiro olmandingo omni opwolfb orius orleg2_101cn oscarbl outline pacmanpe pacominva pacuman pajaroes panzer phoenixbl pleiadsia polepos2a polepos2bi poleposa1n pootan portera puckmana punchkid quaak quartet2a raiden2au rallysa rallyxeg rampart2p rastsag2 rcdego rchasejb redbird redfoxwp2a redhawke rescueb rfjet2kc rittam roadrunm rollace2 ropeman runrun rushcrsh sagaia saiyugoub2 sandscrpb savanna sboblbobla sbsgomo scrabbleo scrambp searthina sectrzona sformulaa sftmk112 sgalwars shangonle sia2650 silvland sinistarc2 sinvasnb sinvemag2 sinvzen sirio2 skyraidr smash sngkace snowbro2b3 spacbat2 spaceat2 spacecho2 spacecom spacedem spacempr spacfurybl spacmiss spactrai spcdrag spcebttl spcrocks spctbird speakhlp spidern spinkick spinner spool3 sstarbtl sstarcrs sstrangr2 stadhr96k starfgmc starrkr startrkd starw starwarr stera stfight superbikg superbona supershp supinvsion suprheli surplnt20 svolleyua swarm tatacot tdragon1 teddybboa tektagtjc1 terrafua tgtballn the26thz theglob3 theglobpa thehustl timescan3 timetrv2 titanpac travrusab2 treahunt trigon trikitri trojanjo trojanra troopy ttfitter verbena viostormubbl vueloesp wildfangh x80wc xsleenabb yukiwo zerotimeb