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ark_ader:
Your Pi will be workable when ICS is possible (if you have the 512 version) otherwise you might want to invest in a ITX board or small laptop instead.
Warfusion:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on January 09, 2013, 08:23:26 am ---Your Pi will be workable when ICS is possible (if you have the 512 version) otherwise you might want to invest in a ITX board or small laptop instead.
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Yeah I have the Model B 512mb rev 2. I was actually playing around with it today and started to install mame on it since I'm waiting on the parts I need for the control. I have tested running quake on it so no doubt it should have no problem running mame. I think I have seen links online about it but haven't looked at them as of yet. Question I have for all of you is actually I was planning on using a small 19" lcd screen my gf and I will probably use it to play Street Fighter and so will this screen be ok or should I go bigger lol.
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: Warfusion on January 09, 2013, 06:24:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on January 09, 2013, 08:23:26 am ---Your Pi will be workable when ICS is possible (if you have the 512 version) otherwise you might want to invest in a ITX board or small laptop instead.
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Yeah I have the Model B 512mb rev 2. I was actually playing around with it today and started to install mame on it since I'm waiting on the parts I need for the control. I have tested running quake on it so no doubt it should have no problem running mame. I think I have seen links online about it but haven't looked at them as of yet. Question I have for all of you is actually I was planning on using a small 19" lcd screen my gf and I will probably use it to play Street Fighter and so will this screen be ok or should I go bigger lol.
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So I guess you do need a primer on mame and emulation in general then. Quake ran on a 75mhz processor and 16mb of ram... aka nothing. As a general rule of emulation, take the original processor speed of the arcade game them multiply by 10, that's the system specs you'll need. Of course if the game has samples, or is in 3d even those specs aren't enough. So you are limited to the classics at best. I've seen a few mame installs on various forums and they were having trouble getting games as primative as Gradius running at full speed in mame. I'm trying not to be negative, but as your first project this still isn't a good one because things aren't going to run as you expect them to. Maybe your linux knowledge is going to help you out, I dunno, but thus far nobody has gotten anything significant to run on the Pi via mame.
Warfusion:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 10, 2013, 05:23:34 am ---
--- Quote from: Warfusion on January 09, 2013, 06:24:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on January 09, 2013, 08:23:26 am ---Your Pi will be workable when ICS is possible (if you have the 512 version) otherwise you might want to invest in a ITX board or small laptop instead.
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Yeah I have the Model B 512mb rev 2. I was actually playing around with it today and started to install mame on it since I'm waiting on the parts I need for the control. I have tested running quake on it so no doubt it should have no problem running mame. I think I have seen links online about it but haven't looked at them as of yet. Question I have for all of you is actually I was planning on using a small 19" lcd screen my gf and I will probably use it to play Street Fighter and so will this screen be ok or should I go bigger lol.
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So I guess you do need a primer on mame and emulation in general then. Quake ran on a 75mhz processor and 16mb of ram... aka nothing. As a general rule of emulation, take the original processor speed of the arcade game them multiply by 10, that's the system specs you'll need. Of course if the game has samples, or is in 3d even those specs aren't enough. So you are limited to the classics at best. I've seen a few mame installs on various forums and they were having trouble getting games as primative as Gradius running at full speed in mame. I'm trying not to be negative, but as your first project this still isn't a good one because things aren't going to run as you expect them to. Maybe your linux knowledge is going to help you out, I dunno, but thus far nobody has gotten anything significant to run on the Pi via mame.
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I'll still try maybe I can find a way but I'll try it before building a cabinet. If it fails I'll use a computer. I just love challenges and doing this :banghead: during projects lol. I always end up going "should have listened to the pros" but then I go the other way. :lol
Howard_Casto:
Don't misunderstand, I've seen some successful pi cabs as of late, but they run stuff like pacman, which I can run on a 5 year old cell phone. If you are into those sorts of games you'll be fine, but if you want to run something even as recent as cps2 games, you'll run into issues unless you run a really old version of mame.
I think Haze pretty much spelled it out in another thread, but then again he's understandably a bit of a purist.
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