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My favorite new MAME feature - Unthrottle!
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SirPeale:
This feature would be nice - IF - you have a system fast enough to expoit it.

What I mean is this: say you're playing Mortal Kombat. (I know MK doesn't have a long boot sequence, just bear with me here) and you're playing on a 2GHz system.  That's plenty fast enough to run it full-frame, sure.  But unthrottling it only speeds it up  by a small fraction.  Say, 80/60 FPS.

Just given for example, not a specific.

Better example: Arkanoid, which has a ten second boot-up.  Annoying.  On the cab I have it on, there would be almost *no* advantage to unthrottling it.  I've tried it, and it runs at like 63/60.

Everyone's milage will vary.
Howard_Casto:
And there is the key flaw to this new feature.  The game is still being emulated, so if your system can only spit it out as fast as it can handle the game without throttling and only rndering 1 frame out of 60. 

Beatmania comes to mind as a game that really needs this feature, so I tried it.  While no longer a 2 minute boot wait, I still had to wait 20-30 seconds and I had to hold down the key the whole time.  So it helps, but it isn't some magic fast-forward button like some of you seem to think it is. 
Havok:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 02, 2006, 03:12:45 pm ---And there is the key flaw to this new feature.  The game is still being emulated, so if your system can only spit it out as fast as it can handle the game without throttling and only rndering 1 frame out of 60. 

Beatmania comes to mind as a game that really needs this feature, so I tried it.  While no longer a 2 minute boot wait, I still had to wait 20-30 seconds and I had to hold down the key the whole time.  So it helps, but it isn't some magic fast-forward button like some of you seem to think it is. 

--- End quote ---

What would be nice if it could be command-line driven, that you could specify X number of seconds to unthrottle, and include it in the launch command...
Justin:
Do I see a SelfCheckDelay.ini in the making?   ;D
jammyjam:
Why not just make a save state with the game loaded up and ready to go. Then launch mame with -state ?
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