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Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: j123vt_99 on January 26, 2005, 10:54:41 am ---but, with the limit of not being able to play newer games?

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j123vt_99 -

I know you are new, but I mention this every couple of weeks in the hope that someone will pay attention.

Older MAME's are faster.  Bzone ran at 100% and no frameskip with MAME R36B11 on my Pentium 200.  Bzone runs at about FS 5 in MAME 0.81 on my XP2800 Barton.

You don't have to have only MAME version X.XX on your machine.  Pick the version that runs most games full speed.  Set ninety percent of your games up in that.  For older (to MAME) games that run too slowly in that version, simply install like MAME 0.35 and run them in that.  For newer games that aren't emulated in that MAME version, simply install the first version of MAME that they showed up in (like 0.92 for the newer Golden Tee games) and run those in that (possibly with a high frameskip and not full speed).

Let your frontend handle launching the games and you won't even notice which version of MAME you are using.

RayB:

Thing is, on newer versions of MAME, there's lots of 'extras'. If you turn those off, you can usually get the full frame rate back.



Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: RayB on February 17, 2005, 11:56:51 am ---Thing is, on newer versions of MAME, there's lots of 'extras'. If you turn those off, you can usually get the full frame rate back.

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That hasn't been my experience.

ssjenkins:

Thanks for that . I'm using 0.67 which seems to work well with my setup .

Sammy

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