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Rabe:
Hey everyone, I've read through the forum and the stickied topic but could not find an answer to my problem.

I'm about to buy a new computer for a cab I'm making, it will probably have a 1ghz processor and either 128 or 256 mb ram running win98se or winXP. My question being: Will this be enough to run my games using the newer versions of mame (something between 0.80 and 0.88) ? I think the games I'm having the most problems with playing on my current computer (500mhz 256mb win98se) is the Metal Slug series and I'd like to be able to play them without the slowdown.

The reason I want to use one of the newer versions to play my games is because I want my frontend to list all of my roms in one list, and not per system or per emulator. And using the computer (and frontend) I use now, I need at least 3 different versions of mame to run all my games at normal speed (thus creating three different lists of games in my frontend). So a new frontend might be an even better option then the new computer.

So any suggestions on what frontend will do what I want it to and any advice from people with similar systems as the one I'm about to buy would be appreciated.

- Rachid
Apollo:
My only advice is not to run WinXP with 128MB RAM.
LordDamo:

--- Quote from: Rabe on November 17, 2004, 01:38:07 pm ---Hey everyone, I've read through the forum and the stickied topic but could not find an answer to my problem.

I'm about to buy a new computer for a cab I'm making, it will probably have a 1ghz processor and either 128 or 256 mb ram running win98se or winXP. My question being: Will this be enough to run my games using the newer versions of mame (something between 0.80 and 0.88) ? I think the games I'm having the most problems with playing on my current computer (500mhz 256mb win98se) is the Metal Slug series and I'd like to be able to play them without the slowdown.

The reason I want to use one of the newer versions to play my games is because I want my frontend to list all of my roms in one list, and not per system or per emulator. And using the computer (and frontend) I use now, I need at least 3 different versions of mame to run all my games at normal speed (thus creating three different lists of games in my frontend). So a new frontend might be an even better option then the new computer.

So any suggestions on what frontend will do what I want it to and any advice from people with similar systems as the one I'm about to buy would be appreciated.

- Rachid

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What size video card have you got? Im only running a PII 400mhz for my mame box - with win2k, 256 mb ram and a 64 mb GeForce4 with tv out. And as you can probally tell from my avatar,  im a metal slug fan myself.

I only got this video card yesterday, and they were the first games I went and tested, and they work fine.

For my front-end I use Kymaera. It highly configureable (in every way you want it to be).

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kymaera/

here's a thread on this board from the author, who is really dedicated to making this "the last front end you'll ever need"

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=25247

Hope this helps
EmuHead:
Hi Rabe. I currently have a 1ghz athlon with 128mb for my cab project and although I have not played metal slug (only a few roms at the moment) i can tell you that I have the following games running at 60fps:

Street Fighter Alpha 1/2/3
WWE Wrestlefest
Splatterhouse
Final Fight
Gem Fighters

Some games which are not very playable are

WWE Wrestlemania (just about playable but works on 0.69)
Killer Instinct 1/2 (am told 4ghz is needed)

And thats about all i can tell you at the moment. In a day or two I will have a full 0.88 setup and will gladly test anything you like. Also I would advise overclocking if you dare risk it as this significantly improved performance on my system. Its running at 1.3ghz instead of 1ghz. If your planning to run XP with 128mb then some serious tweaking is in order (can give details of the whole proccess if you like, im running XP).  Also I had lots of trouble with the Kymaera front end, so now use MAMEWAH, which comes highly reccomended from myself - http://mamewah.mameworld.net/

Hope this helps.

       EmuHead
SirPeale:

--- Quote from: EmuHead on November 17, 2004, 04:24:42 pm ---Killer Instinct 1/2 (am told 4ghz is needed)
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Nope, try ~2GHz.
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