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ROM help needed
« on: October 05, 2003, 04:32:28 pm »
So I updated my mame system from a P3-450 running DOS/arcadeOS to an Athlon XP 1700+ running win98 and Mamewah and I've noticed that my US championship v'ball rom now runs slower???  I was wondering if anyone could help me sort out why this might be.  oh yeah I'm running advmame on a trident t64 video card (same as last setup).  Help, I really like this game  :'(

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Re:ROM help needed
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2003, 05:10:06 pm »
I'd really reccomend windows XP for that system but I cannot guarantee that it would solve the problem.

Another thing you could try is enabling cheats and "overclocking" the arcade game's processor.  I do this for double dragon 2 on neo geo and it works pretty well.


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Re:ROM help needed
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2003, 01:04:10 pm »
Thanks for the tips but I've never used cheats before so I'm unsure how to overclock a specific games processor--is this a standard cheat option?  Thanks!
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Re:ROM help needed
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2003, 03:21:37 pm »
The option to overclock lumped in the volume adjust menu which you can acess by default with the tilde key (`).  One problem is that the overclock does not save so you have to do it everytime.  I think that the overclock is most useful for games like neo geo doube dragon 2 that actually were choppy on their native hardware.  In your case, it would probably be worth a try, but I am not sure if it would solve the prob.

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Re:ROM help needed
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2003, 04:12:56 pm »
well didn't work but I appreciate your help all the same--maybe I'm just on drugs and this is how fast it's always been  :-[
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Re:ROM help needed
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2003, 09:27:39 am »
Well I checked the game on a friends P3-1Ghz and it runs the faster (correct) speed I'm wondering if this is a pentium vs AMD difference--could someone with access to both a pentium and an AMD run this game (vball.zip) and see if there are speed differences with all other factors equal?  

I checked it on my desktop system XP 2600+ with both Mamewah and mame32 and it runs slower than on a p3-450 (no AMD jokes).  The most confusing thing is that both systems report 60fps but the pentium is obviously faster play than the AMD.
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