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Lilwolf:
NOTE:  If a game doesn't need it... none of this matters.  So XP - Dos - Linux wont matter for 85% of the games.

Then there will be about 5%-10% of the games that will change from unplayable to playable once you optimize the crap out of everything.  Best case - decent/worse case. 

So we are really only talking about a few games here.... Make sure you care about them before spending too much time.

Pure DOS will give you a decent jump in fps.  This will give you the best performance... IF you aren't using any hardware stretching...

If you need hardware stretching... Then you will need a windows version.

98 will run the DOS and W32 versions of mame so its a great place to start.  Plus a ton of people have 5+ license laying around.  Plus you get a full range of frontends to use.  Its minuses - slowest of the boots...

XP wasn't designed for a machine that slow.   Yes you can get it to work.  No it wont be as fast... And no it wont effect most games... But again, a few more will be playable if you go DOS or 98SE.  But it will outboot 98 and give you more frontend options then DOS... and it will use hwstretching or d3d.

Now pure DOS - if you can use it, its great.  but the limits are left / right.  No USB support, No uploading of data to most keyboard encoders, No to most frontends, No to lots of things... But for the actual mame games... it should be best.   

As for using older versions of MAME... everyone should have a frontend that allows more then one version of mame.  There are 3 main versions to consider... v36, v55 and then current...  Each has a major speed decrease...  And if you want to play a game that wont run on your system on the latest build, trying it on 55, if so great... if not, try it on 36.  But you should try to use the latest version whenever possible... But don't discount older versions when necessary...  Running MKII on v55 is better then not running it at all (or at 10fps).... assuming you like MKII of course

Don't forget about windows being able to play other emulators!

pointdablame:

--- Quote from: Lilwolf on July 14, 2006, 08:35:40 am ---As for using older versions of MAME... everyone should have a frontend that allows more then one version of mame.  There are 3 main versions to consider... v36, v55 and then current...  Each has a major speed decrease...  And if you want to play a game that wont run on your system on the latest build, trying it on 55, if so great... if not, try it on 36.  But you should try to use the latest version whenever possible... But don't discount older versions when necessary...  Running MKII on v55 is better then not running it at all (or at 10fps).... assuming you like MKII of course

Don't forget about windows being able to play other emulators!



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Careful, you may be directly insulting arcadepcnut with that comment.  ::)
DrewKaree:

--- Quote from: arcadepcnut on July 14, 2006, 12:06:00 am ---That you Drew for your useless response. If I was CRAMPING I'd understand your response....but since Im passionate about the hobby your response is totally inappropriate and shows your mentality and adds absoltutely nothing to the thread.

you wont see me in this thread anylonger....so reply however childish you both wish.

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I think I'm supposed to reply with "I know you are, but what am I?"

I now feel so terribly chastised.  I don't know how I'll EVER overcome the shame of being told my response was useless , inappropriate, and meaningless.

Oh, I've got it!  I'll make MORE responses like that, and in several areas!

That was a close one there ::)

In case you aren't picking up what I'm putting down, I'm quite sure that PDB and myself aren't the only ones :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: at you being beyond womanly sensitivity.
MartyNg:
While we're discussing this, I'll throw another question in the mix.

With 2 40-gig hard drives, would it make sense to use 1 HD for roms only, and leave the other HD for the OS? This way, I think I would be able to change the OS without losing all of my roms and stuff. Would there be a performance difference with MAME not being on the same drive as the OS?

How would this play in with different OSes? What file system would I want to use on the "MAME drive"?
Harry Potter:
I run my MAME cab with all the roms a RW DVD. Yeah access speed isn't too great especially for the bigger l33t gam3zor ROMS but I don't really care if the rom takes 3 seconds or 13 seconds to load.

Updating ROMS is much easier that way.  :cheers:
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