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(Cringe) Sorry to ask...I'm lost with MAME PC specs!
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Jefferson:
Hanoiboi, I'd say your disk space is lacking... a full romset is about 36Gigs, non including CHD's for KI, 3rd strike, any lightgun games, or laserdisk games.

I can DIY wood and wiring ok, but making a PC is kinda beyond me right now. I bought this comp for $250 off overstock and I can run, like that dude said above, 95% of arcade games perfectly...
http://www.overstock.com/Electronics/IBM-8113-3.0GHz-2GB-400GB-Computer-Refurbished/4178981/product.html?recommendation_id=86324e11-01e3-4d5c-a296-ed62c4cb0cc5.1

IBM 8113 3.0GHz 2GB 400GB Computer (Refurbished)
Very very pleased. And the XP it comes with is fairly stripped down (or at least, the last PC I had years ago was preloaded with a bunch of trial stuff and antivirus garbage)

Also I'm running NES SNES and Sega, as well as a handful of n64, PS1 and DC games. With Video previews (MAME) and snaps for the other systems, its about 100G of space. Remember MAME is almost all processor, but RAM helps for peripherals (frontend, consoles)
HanoiBoi:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on March 02, 2010, 06:48:21 pm ---I see this type of post and I wonder why people need such specs to play a majority of arcade games.

A stock P3 would be able to play classic arcade games, 1000 at the very least.

Why is there a need for anything higher?  :dunno

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I hear ya, Ark.  I don't like these posts either, but I really need to move on something.  I guess the 'majority' part was fluff.  I have no experience with light guns or the pinball stuff (Pinmame, virtualpinball, Hyperspin, etc.).  I haven't been able to determine whether or not they require more GHz and/or RAM than say Donkey Kong.


--- Quote from: Lilwolf on March 02, 2010, 07:14:56 pm ---A single core 3ghz will be fine.  It will play 95% of the games out there.

a 2ghz with probably run 94% of the games

And a 3ghz dual core e8400 will run 97% of the games out there... and nothing non-OC'd will run all the games...

You have to decide how much you care about those 5% of the games.  If GauntLegends was in the list, I would say its worth it...

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Lilwolf, thanks for that break down.  You kept it simple and pretty informative at the same time.


--- Quote from: Jefferson on March 02, 2010, 08:25:28 pm ---Hanoiboi, I'd say your disk space is lacking... a full romset is about 36Gigs, non including CHD's for KI, 3rd strike, any lightgun games, or laserdisk games.

I can DIY wood and wiring ok, but making a PC is kinda beyond me right now. I bought this comp for $250 off overstock and I can run, like that dude said above, 95% of arcade games perfectly...
http://www.overstock.com/Electronics/IBM-8113-3.0GHz-2GB-400GB-Computer-Refurbished/4178981/product.html?recommendation_id=86324e11-01e3-4d5c-a296-ed62c4cb0cc5.1

IBM 8113 3.0GHz 2GB 400GB Computer (Refurbished)
Very very pleased. And the XP it comes with is fairly stripped down (or at least, the last PC I had years ago was preloaded with a bunch of trial stuff and antivirus garbage)

Also I'm running NES SNES and Sega, as well as a handful of n64, PS1 and DC games. With Video previews (MAME) and snaps for the other systems, its about 100G of space. Remember MAME is almost all processor, but RAM helps for peripherals (frontend, consoles)

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Thanks Jefferson.  That looks like a pretty decent PC.  I do have an extra 500GB SATA drive kickin' around here...maybe I can find a good deal on a PC with a small SATA drive.

Regarding those other emulators...nice!  I still need to figure out where to get those and their games.  I know, everyone says that these things are easy to find, but damn if I'm able to....lol.

drventure:
For mame, you won't need much in the way of a graphics card, but if you want to run future pinball or VP, you'll need a decent card or they'll be slow as heck. I found that out the hard way  :(
RobbyMac:

--- Quote from: Lilwolf on March 02, 2010, 07:14:56 pm ---I would love to see a project sort the games based on the same hardware, how fast they run... (so if your computer plays game X just fine... you can go down the list until it starts failing... and have a good guess that everything above it should run fine)...  But the hardware would have to be the same (1) and would have to have an AMD group, and a Intel group since they change (some games DO work better on intels)

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+1 ON THE HARDWARE LIST!
I'm sure there are all sorts of ways to complicate the idea... but surely a simplified '3ghz+ list' would help people alot.
Thenasty:
I wanted to see how the speed on MAME when you get this cpu (you might be the first one) on some games.

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0312975

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