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NES as console?
JamesMolloy:
I've ran Mario 64, Zelda OoT through UltraHLE on my 350Mhz with TNT2 graphics card. Don't know what the frame rate was like but it was deffo better than 30fps anyway.
shmokes:
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Romid, I hope you document. As I say I'm very interested, but interest only goes so far. Lets just say my engineering skills lag somewhat behind my enthusiasm.
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paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: chuggy on April 21, 2003, 05:35:52 pm ---Well decisions have been made. I found a 350 MHZ cpu and will be ordering a KeyWiz for the interface. The only problem im having is the fact that the cabinet is a 1991 Dr. Mario. It was sold to me for 29.99, and i think the only thing wrong with it is the controls. Personally i think that a mame machine would be much better, but is it a crime to kill Dr. Mario? Let me know.
adam
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A "Doctor Mario" cabinet is most likely a converted Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Junior, Donkey Kong III, or Radar Scope cabinet, with their being a mild chance of it having been an actual dedicated Vs. Unisystem. Either way, Nintendo cabs are probably the second most common cabinet behind the Midway Pac style ones.
Also, I guess most of you kids haven't been around emulation that long. Nesticle runs full speed on a 486 processor. While a Pentium 233 can do SNES, Genesis and most of Mame perfectly. My first Mame setup had a K6-2 500 in it, and I really couldn't remember anything it couldn't run.
paigeoliver:
Also, what is wrong with the controls? Those Vs. Cabs just have normal (slightly undersized compared to Happs and Wico) joysticks with clicky microswitches.
A few bad switches would be easy to replace.
chuggy:
All i know of the controls is that the game itself powers to the start up screen, and everything is moving and music plays but he cant get the game going. This is why it was sold for 30 bucks. I'm assuming that it's just a control problem considering there is also one button completely missing. In any event i bid on a complete control panel on ebay, and if i dont win that i'll just replace the buttons, and go from there.
p.s. you seem to know a lot about this particular system, it monitor and interface going to be pretty strait forward? thank you in advance