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shponglefan:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on September 22, 2013, 08:53:06 pm ---Then you have the other Pi problem, it doesn't output video in a format that is really friendly to arcade game emulation.
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If your argument is that it doesn't output VGA, neither does any modern PC.  But one can get around that with a DVI->VGA adapter.

Or if one is using an LCD, then the point is moot.
ids:
Wow, I am very surprised by the misinformation and vitriol.  To each their own, but, fwiw, the pi runs mame just fine, a lot newer version than .17, it can overclock to 900MHz and will run problem free for years doing so, without fans or a heat sink even.  For some it may not be their thing, and to others, it'll be just fine.  There are also much better options for automation, but that's getting a bit off topic.  No, it can't drive an arcade monitor, and wont play newer 3d games, etc, but then again, to each their own.
paigeoliver:
Sorry, I had the version number off, it is based off mame .37b5 which is 13 years old, not the 16 year old .17.


--- Quote from: ids on September 22, 2013, 11:41:44 pm ---Wow, I am very surprised by the misinformation and vitriol.  To each their own, but, fwiw, the pi runs mame just fine, a lot newer version than .17, it can overclock to 900MHz and will run problem free for years doing so, without fans or a heat sink even.  For some it may not be their thing, and to others, it'll be just fine.  There are also much better options for automation, but that's getting a bit off topic.  No, it can't drive an arcade monitor, and wont play newer 3d games, etc, but then again, to each their own.

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ids:
or .106 http://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/01/pleasant-surprise-new-version-of-advancemame-was-released/
take your pick
Haze:
and they're all IMHO terrible from what I've seen, with people making excuses for it 'oh it's fine with a bit of frameskipping' etc...

it might be 900mhz but from what I've seen real life MAME performance is much lower than you'd expect from such a system due to other factors.

it's cheap, you get what you pay for, it's not good value, just cheap.

I really wish people would stop porting old versions of MAME to crappy platforms and just accept that proper emulation needs something significantly better hardware-wise, or something that isn't MAME and has rather been developed from the ground up for one of these ARM based platforms.  It's painful seeing the old bugs and piss-poor emulations resurrected over and over again in some zombified corpse of an emulator just because people are trying to be cheap; at least if somebody made something new they could do it with current knowledge.

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