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| Jop:
Hi, sorry if this question has been asked many times before... but I have tried looking! What version of MAME would work best with the PC I'm going to use in my project? Specs below: P4 1.7ghz 384mb RAM geForce 2mx Thanks |
| Green Giant:
Have you tried running some games with the latest version? I think what you have can handle it. |
| Lilwolf:
The latest version of mame will be able to run 98% of all the games out there. And if you find the fastest version of mame, you might get 100 more games running. Fastest version is v.36 (or so) when they moved off 8bit color. But you will loose 1000s of games Then .58 had a descent slowdown But, all in all... get the latest mame, and a frontend that allows more then one version of mame... then try others and see if you can get a few more games running? why not. (I do this when you want to play a game that the latest mame has broken..) |
| TOK:
While I have later versions for specific games, my favorite version of MAME is .99. Its faster than the .1xx versions, Highscore.dat is still supported, the Robotron speed issue was corrected, and all of the MAME'd Golden Tee games are in there. I'm running .99 on both my cabs, with similar specs to yours. One is a 2ghz Pentium 4, the other is a 1.9ghz Athlon XP. |
| Anubis_au:
What about running a newer romset on an older version of MAME? I have the full romset for v1.18, but all I want is to play the classic arcade games (pacman, galaga, bombjack, wonderboy etc). Is it better to play these with MAME v1.18 or newer, or with an older version, like v0.99 as TOK suggested? Or is there some app that 'downgrades' the romset accordingly to the MAME version. If so, is there any benefit to this? |
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