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Can someone explain (or guide me) on Mame video emulation?
Haze:
--- Quote from: southpaw13 on June 15, 2010, 09:16:52 am ---Thanks...
Does CabMame help a little?
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I assume it just has different variations on the same tricks. The problem is modern hardware moreso than the emulator, the needs of 100% accurate emulation exceed the needs of general users and conflict with the direction taken by modern technology and thus the hardware being produced.
southpaw13:
Understood...thanks for the info....
I am going to try an ArcadeVGA card I have....
Then possibly add PowerStrip....
Or I might start with SmoothMame which is at version 135...
and CabMame that is at 138...
What's the best starting point???
DaveMMR:
--- Quote from: southpaw13 on June 15, 2010, 02:29:32 pm ---What's the best starting point???
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Buying an arcade monitor. ;)
Without getting into the technicals everyone else is way more qualified to provide than I am, an LCD Monitor and the CRTs used in arcades are two different beasts and it'll never look quite "right".
Haze:
--- Quote from: southpaw13 on June 15, 2010, 02:29:32 pm ---Understood...thanks for the info....
I am going to try an ArcadeVGA card I have....
Then possibly add PowerStrip....
Or I might start with SmoothMame which is at version 135...
and CabMame that is at 138...
What's the best starting point???
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SmoothMame is the worst of the bunch, not only will it cause the games to run at slightly the wrong speed it will also introduce timing errors into the emulation, and cause many situations where the video / sound sync is incorrect because it's a absurd hack that just attempts to change the refresh rate of the emulated machine rather than trying to adapt the overall emulation speed so that things stay properly in sync and the internal game timings remain correct. Believe me, you *really* don't want to be doing that.
I don't know much about CabMame so I can't comment.
The only way you're going to get it closer to perfect is with an actual arcade monitor and lots of difficult custom resolution tweaking etc. and even then you might struggle to get what you want under modern operating systems (and you're more or less forced to run games at their native orientation, so unless your monitor rotates then vertical games are never going to look quite right anyway)
southpaw13:
Thanks....I wish things were just a little easier.......
I guess I need to find a combination that I can live with....