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Boot CD installs DOS, Vantage, Raine, MAME (1 of 7 versions) and Game Launcher
IG-88:
Ahh... I learn something new every day. :) Thanks for straightening that out gentlemen. I've always considered flash drives and solid state the same thing. I figured if it didn't "move" it was solid state. Never-the-less for the price per GB, regular old IDE hard drives seem to be the best for the $$ and being a tight wad thats my first concern ;D
Dillsta:
Hey guys me again. Mame-xp runs well but I'm having a bit of trouble getting the roms to work on mame32, some games do work but very slow, i may need more ram to fix this (i currently have 256). but most of the games go to a white screen but i can hear the sound (i was playing metal slug by just listening lol). i think this maybe a graphics card problem, since I'm only using onboard. any suggestions, and if this is a matter of the graphics card can any one point me in the direction of a cheap one that will do the job. Also MaLa doesn't won't to find my roms and then when i click refresh ROM list it comes up with an error and closes, Help appreciated also for this problem.
cheers, Dylan
P.S. i live in Australia so Australian online stores would be preferred for buying the Graphics Card.
EDIT: Fixed roms not showing up in MALA
spystyle:
Maxing out the RAM on your computer is an effective way to speed it up for cheap. You can read the mainboard's manual to discover the type and max, then get it off eBay or pricewatch.
A good video card? Depending on what type of expansion slots are available on your mainboard, you could get an inexpensive "GeForce" card that matches the slot. (ex : AGP, PCI, or the newer PCI-e)
The above is upgrading hardware, but if you loosely match your MAME set to your computer in the first place you won't really have to upgrade.
Different versions of MAME require different horsepower. Each newer version supporting more games but requiring more power. Match them kinda like this :
MAME .36 / 500mhz Pentium 2
MAME .53 / 500mhz Pentium 3
MAME .95 / 2GHZ Pentium 4
I would avoid CHD files as well.
Cheers,
Craig
ChadTower:
I just used this for the first time last week... quite good. I ended up altering the install scripts a bit to suit my own purposes, though. Let me know, spystyle, if there are any things you wanted to add but don't have time. I do a lot of blind automation like this in my job.
spystyle:
Hi Chad,
This is 100% "open source".
First it was Fraggal's, then I revamped it almost completely, now I am happy to "pass the torch" if you care to carry it :)
What improvements have you made?
Cheers,
Craig
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