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Running CHD games
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: Piss Ant on May 13, 2004, 04:40:34 pm ---I've played KI1 & KI2 on a AMD 2000+ 256 Ram machine with no slowdown. You need to go back several versions of your Mame32 (Try around .71 or so), of course you'll need to get the version .71 rom for it. Each version adds more tweaks & each one slows things down.
Good Luck,
Piss Ant
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Not true at all.... the original ki/ki2 drivers were severly flawed (they were based on the totally inaccurate kiame code) . These "tweaks" you meantioned are accurate emulation. If you want to play the ki game properly, then upgrade. If you want to play crappy hacked versions of the game then use your method. ;)
MrBond:
You are correct that U64 emulates (simulates?) the KI and KI2 arcade hardware found in the "Ultra64" Arcade Cabinets (thus the name).
--- Quote from: simplygriff on May 18, 2004, 10:05:15 am ---So if I understand correctly...
I can put the same roms from Mame into u64's roms folder and it will work? Do I need to unzip the roms? Just trying to clear some things up so I can try this. Thanks.
-G
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U64 uses the same roms as MAME. However, it uses harddisk images (.img) instead of .chd's.
This should make it easy:
u64emu/roms directory has the same as MAME but unzipped:
u98-l15d, u10-l1, u11-l1, u12-l1, u13-l1, u33-l1, u34-l1, u35-l1, u36-l1
ki2-l11.u98, ki2_l1.u10, ki2_l1.u11, ki2_l1.u12, ki2_l1.u13,
ki2_l1.u33, ki2_l1.u34, ki2_l1.u35, ki2_l1.u36, ki2-l11.u98
u64/hdimage directory (NOT the same as MAME's CHD files)
ki.img, ki2.img
Now run U64emu and press "GameSet". Select the gameset (ki/ki2), then browse for each rom file and the harddisk image. Press OK. You can choose resolution, fullscreen, scanlines from "Settings". You can change your inputs in "Input Config", and modify "DIP Switches".
Then, when your ready to play, just press "Run".
That's it ;D
PS. Don't ask where to get the roms/.img files, as it's against forum policy. :-X
dema:
Thanks for the walkthrough MrBond.
Piss Ant:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 18, 2004, 02:21:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: Piss Ant on May 13, 2004, 04:40:34 pm ---I've played KI1 & KI2 on a AMD 2000+ 256 Ram machine with no slowdown. You need to go back several versions of your Mame32 (Try around .71 or so), of course you'll need to get the version .71 rom for it. Each version adds more tweaks & each one slows things down.
Good Luck,
Piss Ant
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Not true at all.... the original ki/ki2 drivers were severly flawed (they were based on the totally inaccurate kiame code) . These "tweaks" you meantioned are accurate emulation. If you want to play the ki game properly, then upgrade. If you want to play crappy hacked versions of the game then use your method. ;)
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Howard,
You're correct if you want to play properly then an upgrade is needed, & that the "tweaks" are more accurate emulation + I'm sure you're right on the severly flawed part as well ;). However I was just trying to help Scoobie with a possible solution to the original post - to get it to play at the proper speed in MAME32. Since ki can be played on that system in Mame32 at a more proper speed although it may be "crappy hacked verstions" it can be done. I'm sure that a few more tweaking may also be done to get it to run faster as well. Although MrBond's suggestion is probably the best solution.
Piss Ant
Scoobie:
I appreciate everyone's help on this. With that said, I am now considering switching from Mame32 to NoNameMame now that the CPU overclocking has been added and I still can't find this option (pressing F2) in any of the games.
This might not be a good idea since I don't understand code (I'd like to try).
Does anyone know if there is thread or tutorial on setting up NoNameMame?
Thanks again everyone!