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sportswizdan:

A question to those of you who have had the opportunity to compare PC emulation versus XBox emulation. This would include Mame and the following console systems:

Atari 2600, 5200, 7800
Nintendo NES, S-NES, N64
Sega Genesis, 32X, CD
Colecovision
Intellivision
Commodore 64

For the above mentioned, would the PC or the XBox be better for those emulations, as far as performance and overall graphic appearance? What would the pros and cons be for these set-ups? I am just trying to see if I should go the XBox route (which I have NEVER tried) or keep the PC method. Thanks in advance to all of you :notworthy:

Dan


steveh:

as far as performance goes i believe it is about the same.  But on the xbox you will have to get it modded in order to play the games.   

meltman:


--- Quote from: steveh on January 04, 2007, 04:52:30 pm ---as far as performance goes i believe it is about the same.  But on the xbox you will have to get it modded in order to play the games.   

--- End quote ---

And you will be seriously limited by the available RAM on the xbox. I honestly built my PC cabinet BECAUSE of the limitations of the xbox.


Crax:

I've honestly had a lot more frustrations with console emulators on the xbox than mame.  Mame is easy to get working.  I have all sorts of troubles with the nes/snes emulators I have tried and moderate problems with the genesis ones.

Mctittles:

I've never tried an X-Box but if you compare by pure specs I think you could get a PC for cheaper.  Not sure if you would want X-Box for price reasons or not, but here are some specs for the X-Box (not 360, 360 is much better)

CPU: 733 MHz chip crafted by Intel
Graphics Processor: 250MHz custom chip named XGPU, developed by Microsoft and nVIDIA
Total Memory: The RAM in the Xbox will be supplied by Micron, it will be 64 MB running at 200MHz DDR (Double-Data-Rate)
Memory Bandwidth: 6.4 GB/sec

If you look on newegg or somewhere for those type of parts for a pc you could get off cheaper I think.  What I do for parts sometimes is look on newegg and read reviews for the part I want, then search e-bay and froogle for someone selling the board or processor at a cheaper price...

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