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Arcades with hard drives...?
Jetto Funk:
I have a MACE The dark age cab and it looks like it has a jamma harness but it also has a hard drive.
I've been out of the loop a few years so this is new technology for me. What kind of system is this?
Malenko:
Theres a few different systems that use hard drives. Midway used them in the NFL Blitz/NBA Showtime series and the Killer Instincts as well. In mame they are known as CHD (compressed Heaps of Data, I believe) ,some CHDs are cd images in addition to hard drive images. They both serve the same function a large data rom
Jetto Funk:
I see...
So it's not on a Jamma harness, it is its on system.
Would the hard drives be swappable?
These are the games that Mame has a hard time emulating am I correct?
Teebor:
It has a hard time emulating some of them, but others like KI2 seem to run ok on powerful machines.
I think Area 51 is a good example of one that doesn't run so well, I tend to avoid these types of games though
Malenko:
--- Quote from: Jetto Funk on September 11, 2007, 10:47:14 am ---I see...
So it's not on a Jamma harness, it is its on system.
Would the hard drives be swappable?
These are the games that Mame has a hard time emulating am I correct?
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Ummmmm..... the games are JAMMA+ compatible, the hard drives plug into the arcade PCBs directly (typically using an IDE cable and power cord) . AFAIK you cant just use any hard drive theres certains brands and types but you can modify a rom (on killer instinct its u8) to accept any drive, including CF cards with IDE adapters.
I can play Killer Instinct (1 and 2) just fine on my lowly old Dell Optiplex 210L Pentium 4 @ 2.8GHz