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| SGT:
--- Quote from: XyloSesame on October 31, 2007, 10:47:33 am ---Am I correct in the assumption that versions above .100 might actually show a slowdown in older machines rather than performance improvements? --- End quote --- I think version .106 had a big video rewrite that created a substantial performance hit on older machines. Seems like there was something done with audio on another version, but I cannot remember for sure nor when. Edit: Looking on mamedev.org, it looks like the big audio rewrite occurred in version .93 which I assume caused performance problems on older machines. Anyone feel free to correct me on any of these points. |
| TOK:
I stopped at .99 here... Robotron video speed properly emulated, runs good on older machines, Golden Tee is in there, Hiscore.dat works properly. They started going backwards right after this, IMO. |
| XyloSesame:
--- Quote from: SGT on October 31, 2007, 04:56:41 pm --- I think version .106 had a big video rewrite that created a substantial performance hit on older machines. Seems like there was something done with audio on another version, but I cannot remember for sure nor when. Edit: Looking on mamedev.org, it looks like the big audio rewrite occurred in version .93 which I assume caused performance problems on older machines. Anyone feel free to correct me on any of these points. --- End quote --- You're correct, v0.93 had the audio rewrite. However, according to mamedev, v0.107 is the first full release for the new video code. While we're talking release changes: hiscore.dat was removed (and replaced with save state) in v0.108 CPS2 decryption was added in v0.112 There was a big Donkey Kong update in v0.116 CPS3 decryption added in v0.116u2 Edit: Is there anywhere that has a running list of major changes and ROMS added/changed in one place? The only way I've been able to research this stuff is by reading each whatsnew, which is a real PITA Edit#2: In reading the "whatsnew" files from mamedev, I'm finally up to the video rendering changes. SGT, you're correct: the video rewrite actually happened with version 0.106u1 - version 0.107 was just the first full release to feature the change. |
| Hoopz:
--- Quote from: XyloSesame on November 01, 2007, 12:18:26 pm --- Edit: Is there anywhere that has a running list of major changes and ROMS added/changed in one place? The only way I've been able to research this stuff is by reading each whatsnew, which is a real PITA --- End quote --- Kinda. MAWS will let you search/sort by "cumulative change". So you can select .120 (or whatever version) and hit search. When you see the data that it outputs, you can sort by version. You can easily see then what roms changed in what versions. It'll show you the "u" changes also. |
| XyloSesame:
--- Quote from: HooPZ on November 01, 2007, 01:24:59 pm --- --- Quote from: XyloSesame on November 01, 2007, 12:18:26 pm ---Edit: Is there anywhere that has a running list of major changes and ROMS added/changed in one place? The only way I've been able to research this stuff is by reading each whatsnew, which is a real PITA --- End quote --- Kinda. MAWS will let you search/sort by "cumulative change". So you can select .120 (or whatever version) and hit search. When you see the data that it outputs, you can sort by version. You can easily see then what roms changed in what versions. It'll show you the "u" changes also. --- End quote --- So close... When I search MAWS for "cumulative changes since," the recordset returned only shows the version in which the ROM was added. The main problem is, without clicking on each of the titles you can't see when it was last modified... Edit: Realized that when I search for cumulative changes for one release only, the results show both new and changed for that release... D'oh! This'll work, thanks! |
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