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DaveMMR:

--- Quote from: sabreerbasAlpha on April 17, 2013, 05:17:26 pm ---That statement is a bit lost on me. How can no option exist to play all the games. ??????

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Because, simply put, they're aiming for accuracy over playability.
sqwirral:

--- Quote from: kahlid74 on April 17, 2013, 09:23:33 am ---
--- Quote from: BadMouth on April 16, 2013, 04:08:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: sabreerbasAlpha on April 16, 2013, 08:38:42 am ---To run all the games........
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No processor exists that will run all the games, especially in MAME.
Buy the fastest Intel quad core processor you can afford.

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"All the games" certainly is an ambiguous statement but the guy with the water cooled system has made short work of many of the games.  at 5Ghz and faster you're pretty much good to go for every MAME game there is from what I've read.

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Mine's near 5 and there are plenty that are little more than a slideshow
BadMouth:

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That statement is a bit lost on me. How can no option exist to play all the games. ??????

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EDIT: To elaborate, MAME is not a gaming platform, it is an emulator. 
It emulates arcade hardware which takes much more processing power than it would if the game were able to run directly on your computer.  Your processor must not only emulate the processor (or processors) in the original hardware, but also any video card present on the original hardware.  The work isn't offloaded to your video card because that wouldn't accurately reproduce exactly how the original hardware functioned. 

MAMEDev doesn't care if the game runs slow on currently available hardware, as long as the emulation is done correctly so as to represent how the original hardware functioned.  This actually worked out pretty well when processors were doubling in speed every year.  Instead of applying a bunch of hacks to make the game play faster, they did it right to begin with and processors always caught up.
Now that era is coming to an end due to limitations of materials used to make processors.

Also, the emulation is incomplete for many games......and there are a TON of fruit machine, slot machine, pinball, etc roms where the original machines had moving mechanical parts that aren't represented in MAME.

For newer games, you can use other emulators that utilize your video card and focus on playability.
(Model 2 Emulator, Supermodel, Demul)

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