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Trip:


--- Quote from: ABACABB on August 22, 2012, 10:33:36 am ---I upgraded my pc to a 2nd generation core-i3 2120 @ 3.3ghz and now NFL Blitz is playable at a constant full speed and I love this game.  Being able to play this one is a huge addition for me!!   :applaud:

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Been dying to play this, but have a really old AMD64, one of the first AMD64s.  Just bought an i5-3570k with an ASUS z77 mobo on Amazon.  Can't wait to get it in.  Glad to hear an i3 can play it.

ABACABB:


--- Quote from: TGov on August 29, 2012, 04:12:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: ABACABB on August 22, 2012, 10:33:36 am ---I upgraded my pc to a 2nd generation core-i3 2120 @ 3.3ghz and now NFL Blitz is playable at a constant full speed and I love this game.  Being able to play this one is a huge addition for me!!   :applaud:

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What did you upgrade from if you don't mind me asking?

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Sure,I upgraded from a core-i5 650 @ 3.2ghz. Not much of an upgrade I know but here's why. I also have plans to build a dedicated racing cabinet for Model 2 and 3 racing games. I know the older 650 runs the model2 emulator and Supermodel emulator just fine and I needed another pc for my racing cab. So I decided to get one that I would (hopefully) be able to run NFL Blitz on full speed. Now I have the newer core i-3 2120 in my MAME cab and I'll use the 650 in my racing cab.

The new architecture used in the 2nd generation processor though gave a significant improvement when playing NFL Blitz

TGov:

Wow, I didn't realize it took that much horespower to emulate Blitz.  Interesting stuff :)  Thanks for the reply.

ABACABB:


--- Quote from: Trip on August 29, 2012, 05:00:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: ABACABB on August 22, 2012, 10:33:36 am ---I upgraded my pc to a 2nd generation core-i3 2120 @ 3.3ghz and now NFL Blitz is playable at a constant full speed and I love this game.  Being able to play this one is a huge addition for me!!   :applaud:

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Been dying to play this, but have a really old AMD64, one of the first AMD64s.  Just bought an i5-3570k with an ASUS z77 mobo on Amazon.  Can't wait to get it in.  Glad to hear an i3 can play it.

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That is awesome!!  You'll have a kick ass pc for mame.  I still can't run San Francisco Rush at full speed but maybe your new setup can.  Best of luck with it.

ABACABB:

OK, I ran MK4 last night and here's what I have. I got it to runn fullspeed but I had to turn up frameskip to 5/10 to achieve a consistent 100%. No big deal really as I can't even tell a difference between 0 frame skip and the 5 I have it set on. I also forgot to turn down the audio rate to 22k, that can give you a little performance boost over the default setting of 44k. I never played this game in the arcade so I don't have a point of reference to compare the graphics to. That said, I did notice some very strange glitches that I'm sure were not part of the original. Throwing ice from Sub Zero, there was a large black box around the ice. Also Sub Zero has some strange effects coming off of him. I assume this is supposed to look like he is very cold but the effects are not very transparent so it looks like he has all these strange objects flying off his body.

So that's all the further I got. The game does seem to be playable though. If you're a diehard these glitches may not bother you so much.

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