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CPickler:
This makes me feel inferior.

I am running a P3 for my MAME system.  It's an old box I had lying around that used to be the music server for my fraternity.

I thought that most MAME games would run on a P3 with 128 MB RAM quite well.

Am I wrong?
paigeoliver:

--- Quote from: CPickler on April 04, 2005, 07:35:16 pm ---This makes me feel inferior.

I am running a P3 for my MAME system.  It's an old box I had lying around that used to be the music server for my fraternity.

I thought that most MAME games would run on a P3 with 128 MB RAM quite well.

Am I wrong?

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No, you aren't wrong. A 128MB P3 with the proper mame version (somewhere around .70 would be correct for a P3), will run roughly 98 percent of the games in Mame full speed.

The problem is that people won't stop talking about that other 2 percent. Half of that other 2 percent won't run on ANYTHING. Of the remaining ones roughly 75 percent require specialty analog controllers that most people won't have.

The list of games that need big hardware is pitifully short, and almost ALL of them are analog games. In basically EVERY case you gain more games by investing in more controller types than you do by investing in a faster computer.

Invest in a spinner, a true analog joystick, a trackball, even those little analog SNAP joysticks for the sports games, rotary joysticks, 4-way joystics, or a steering wheel. Each and every one of those controls enables more games than a faster processor does.
SOAPboy:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 05, 2005, 03:59:03 am ---
--- Quote from: CPickler on April 04, 2005, 07:35:16 pm ---This makes me feel inferior.

I am running a P3 for my MAME system.
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paigeoliver:

--- Quote from: SOAPboy on April 05, 2005, 05:13:09 am ---
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 05, 2005, 03:59:03 am ---
--- Quote from: CPickler on April 04, 2005, 07:35:16 pm ---This makes me feel inferior.

I am running a P3 for my MAME system.  It's an old box I had lying around that used to be the music server for my fraternity.

I thought that most MAME games would run on a P3 with 128 MB RAM quite well.

Am I wrong?

--- End quote ---

No, you aren't wrong. A 128MB P3 with the proper mame version (somewhere around .70 would be correct for a P3), will run roughly 98 percent of the games in Mame full speed.

The problem is that people won't stop talking about that other 2 percent. Half of that other 2 percent won't run on ANYTHING. Of the remaining ones roughly 75 percent require specialty analog controllers that most people won't have.

The list of games that need big hardware is pitifully short, and almost ALL of them are analog games. In basically EVERY case you gain more games by investing in more controller types than you do by investing in a faster computer.

Invest in a spinner, a true analog joystick, a trackball, even those little analog SNAP joysticks for the sports games, rotary joysticks, 4-way joystics, or a steering wheel. Each and every one of those controls enables more games than a faster processor does.

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So, What exactly does it take to get Killer Instinct 1 and 2 running at 95%-100% speed..
Other than blitz, those are the only ones i know of people trying to get running right.. oh well maybe street figher 3 or whatever..



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Who knows, I never even bothered trying them. I already have 90,000 other games I don't have time to play, so I am certainly not going to start sweating over a few non-unique titles.

I have always figured that eventually the computer in my main cabinet will crap out. When it does then the replacement computer will certainly play all those games that everyone today is struggling with. I waited for STUN Runner, I'll wait for those.  The hardware will catch up, the hardware will always catch up.
CPickler:
good mantra
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