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wonkalow:
I received a free gutted cabinet yesterday, and since the minute I seen pictures my mind has been racing of what it will end in. This is my first of probably many posts and questions. Ive been reading non stop since yesterday morning every detail I can, trying to figure out how everything works and am extremly excited about finishing a great mame system.

One thing so far though I havnt heard anything about is the speed games run at. I know some platforms/emulators have a hard time running SNES games at their original speeds which makes some fighting/action games too slow and laggy to play right. I was just wondering if every game from atari to say Dreamcast ( I havnt even checked if theres an emulator for that yet but thats probably highest I would go if there was) will run at their full and correct speed?
BobA:
With MAME there are always games that will not  run at full speed or even playable speed.  Many  3D and CHD games fall into this area.  With the emulators there is alot more concentration on making the games playable since there is only one emulation and not hundreds.  Every emulator has different requirements to run the games well but I think you will be happy with alot of them if you can devote a moderately recent computer to them.   Many emulators are better then others that emulate the same thing so you will have to read a bit more to find the prefered ones.  There are even single emulators that play games from MAME with alot more efficiency if you want to use a less powerful computer.  One that comes to mind for vertical games is vantage.  There is also a neogeo emulator and others.   

Dreamcast emulation seems to be popular as are dreamcast consoles.  Almost any console of the last generation and before is emulated somewhere.

Welcome to the forum

Edit:  Forgot to say that you might want to start with the Wiki to read up on emulators for various consoles.
wonkalow:
Ill check the wiki next, thanks for the advice. Currently though im tired and gotta get some sleep. Ive been reading about everything involved in building my own cabinet all day non stop with the exception of a quick trip to a big local arcade for "Research"  ;D


But first thing in the morning im back to reading, I have about 30 tabs open atm with the wiki first on the list
danny_galaga:


welcome to the forums and its good to see such enthusiasm. avoid the 'everything else' and 'politics n religion' forums  ;)
wonkalow:
Ok, I got sidetracked and sent out of town for a couple weeks and finnally got things back to normal and am going to start on this once again.
Im still narrowing the list (as I dont know of all of these are possible, or if I can even still roms or all of the details of them yet) to ...
Atari 2600
Atari Lynx
Sega genesis
NES
SNES
Neogeo
Sega Master System
Turbo graphics 16
Dreamcast
and
Mame

assuming I stick with all of the above (and anything else anyone happens to mention from now to completion)... would the vast majority of the games, and even more of the popular games run at a fairly correct speed? I unfortunately have no way to see one of these in action, so im very concerned it wont run correctly or run very many games at a normal speed and ill waste hundreds of dollars on something that feels like a rip off of an arcade machine  :-\

I understand different emulators will run different games at different speeds, but how wide of a range is there ? should I be expecting only 5-10 games to not run correctly? or 100's?
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