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shawshank

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Certain games slow or jaggy?
« on: June 02, 2005, 01:59:26 pm »
I have problem running certain games such as Virtual Fighter or Tekken 3 using MAME .96u3. The sound is even delayed. I am running a fast system:P4, 512mem, ATI9800 video card. Any ideas?

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Re: Certain games slow or jaggy?
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2005, 02:09:33 pm »
It's mame.  Get a better emulator for those games like modeler or zinc.  mame doesn't use hardware exeleration, it isn't taking full advantage of the system.  Mame's goal is to document the hardware in the game, this included emulating the graphics processor.  Other emus made for playing games will use the computers GPU for display which will make things faster.
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Re: Certain games slow or jaggy?
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2005, 03:02:31 pm »
Is it correct that Mame runs Double Dragon with huge slowdowns because the original had them as well? I heard that you can use a cheat.dat to get around that? I've never used a cheat file so I don't really know the process.
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Re: Certain games slow or jaggy?
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2005, 04:11:39 pm »
About double dragon, yes.  The original had slow downs.  you can use cheats to overclock the processors to "fix" that.  However, on these newer games you probably can't do that since you need extra processing power from your ocmputer.  With newer games the computer itself can not handle the emulation so there is no extra processing power available to overclock.
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Re: Certain games slow or jaggy?
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2005, 04:12:09 am »
Did not realise this was the course of the slow down!

So can these emulator be used by Mamewah? Also is there a source that provides a full list of the supported games so I can create a custom games list?

Thanks
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Re: Certain games slow or jaggy?
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2005, 08:30:02 am »
Wow I never knew that either I will need to look into zinc and modeler tonight, thanks for the info!
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Re: Certain games slow or jaggy?
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2005, 10:39:12 am »
what are zinc and modeler? 
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Re: Certain games slow or jaggy?
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2005, 11:00:38 am »
Google is your friend....

I put in ZINC + EMU and here's one of the first links which should show you a number of emulators.

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Re: Certain games slow or jaggy?
« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2005, 12:09:41 pm »
Nice link for a history lesson. That page needs updated. :)
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Re: Certain games slow or jaggy?
« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2005, 03:44:29 am »
I would like to point out that modeler shouldn't be in the equation as it's:

Not cabinet friendly at all.

Won't emulate any of the games mentioned. 
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Re: Certain games slow or jaggy?
« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2005, 04:11:59 am »
... and most arcade games are jaggy by nature. The games are coded at a fairly low res, at least compared to todays games, so the jaggies abound. Hell, "jaggies" wasn't even really a term back in the heyday of the arcades, since they're was nothing to compare them to.

Playing Mame games on a PC monitor as well will further make the jaggies stand out since the monitor is far sharper than an arcade monitor.
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