Star Wars emulation too fast- How to slow it down?

[1500points]

Hello and thanks in advance for the input:

Recently refurbished a Star Wars yoke and added the old Ram Controls USB interface.
Running Star Wars rev 2 on Mame32 with win7 64bit laptop.

The flight controls work perfectly and feel responsive and accurate
BUT the emulation of the game is too fast, the music even sounds fast, the trench is tough at this speed.

HOW to slow down the game?
I have the frame rate at draw every frame, it is not on auto, either.

Is there a way to "underclock" the processing?

As much as it cost to refurb the flight yoke, it would be disappointing if the SW emulation is a bust.
thanks again.

[1500points]

update. mame148 and win7 64 bit must have been the issue.

tested from an old xp laptop with command line mame106 and SW ran at proper speed. nice!

[Xiaou2]

Your Ini settings were probably incorrect.  Whenever you change revisions, you probably should delete setting files.  Core changes can cause errors and issues if the settings are different.

 Also, you may have just pressed F10.. which makes it so that there is no limit to the games emulation.

 F11  shows frames & frameskip rate
 F10  full speed throttle toggle
 F9    increase frameskip
 F8     decrese frameskip

 Skipping frames can help run slow games at increased speed... but the more frames skipped, the more 'jerky' the games motion will look.

 Theres also an  Auto frameskip option... which applies skips based on performance.  I think thats the default... which IMO, isnt a good thing to do.   I tend to use either a set skip rate, based on observation in play-tests, or turn Ill just turn it off completely.

[1500points]

thank you.
have been playing a lot of the game, excited to have it available.

the game plays really well but it seems the enemy shots are much more prolific than the real game when on the towers.  might be a bit tougher in the trench, but manageable.  love a good challenge anyway, I could play that game a long time in the arcades.

they balanced the "flow" so well in the trenches on the arcade machine it sure really did feel like channeling the Force.  ahhhhh. cheers. 

[welash]

Perhaps you have the dip switch settings set to hard or hardest in mame, and the machine you are used to playing was set to a lower difficulty level.  You can change the dip-switches in mame from the tab menu

[1500points]

it is set on easy. some of it might involve using a 19inch lcd monitor instead of that big vector monitor.
set it to 3 shields a wave bonus and all is well with the force.

thankful all the way around for the folks that spent the time emulating star wars, to the fact they make a USB interface for Yokes.