Problems With Sound

[Geo]

Hello,

I am pretty much new to MAME, and I am telling you I been having a BALL the past couple weeks!

I am going to get myself a cabinet and build some controls and a computer in it (just like everyone else has).  The urge is too irresistable!

Up to now, I been mainly playing early 80's type games and I have experienced no problems.  However, some of the later games such as Golden Axe, Outrun, Smash TV, and most of the newer fighting games have a problem with the sound.  Game play is pretty good, but the sound has a tendency to "repeat" itself.

Would anyone know what causes this and if there is a software fix?  It is quite annoying.   I am using a Pentium 500 as of now with 128meg ram.

Please EM me directly
jukingeo@optonline.net

Thanx,
Geo

[Lilwolf]

It's probably your processor.  It's not bad for older games, but newer games, when the processor is maxed out, will repeat the sounds.

Also, some of the games you mentioned (outrun, and other sega games) are in the middle of a rewrite.

last, mame is great.  But for speed, it's not the best.  If you find another emulator that runs a game, it will probably run it faster.  So look around at some of the others

system16
raine
m72
retrocade (some games its great at, others.... well...)
hive (will play old games on a 486)
finalburn (for the older games)
finalburn alpha (for cps2)
there is a great guantlet emulator I used when I had a 450... but didn't have a speed limiter so I went to mame.  Still it looks better then mame does
Rygar has a great single emulator REM! that still plays better then mame... but again, not speed limiter

I'm sure I'm missing some.  After moving from a 450 to a 1ghz, I stopped caring about most other emulators since mame could run 98% with full fps.