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Kawaks emulator -- is it worth using?
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on June 23, 2004, 12:49:44 am ---kawaks is faster than mame in neogeo emulation. Also there are games that did have transparencies and mame can't do that. Also nebula and kawaks have a working memory card emulation. They both can simulate MVS too, I believe.
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Not true..... There were games with simulated transparencies and mame does indeed emulate that accurately. What kawaks does is turn them into true transparencies. Kawaks can do the region changes and stuff like cl said (which btw are virtually useless as you can also change the region in the soft dip in mame) but that's about all it has going for it, other than speed. Afaik only nebula has mvs support, kawaks doesn't.
So long story short.... no it isn't worth using, at least on a mame cabinet.
As the others have said, it can "fake" higher resolutions, but that's dumb anyway as the graphics are raster and you can't tell any difference. It is faster than mame, but there are other neogeo emulators out there that are faster than it.
As usual, the only benefit of running anything other than mame for neogeo games is the ability to put the games in "console" mode. But why you would want to run the console version on an arcade cabinet is beyond me.
Kawaks and nebula are made for people who wish to casually play neogeo games on their desktop pc, not more hardcore people who have cabinets and launch from a frontend, ect....