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Kajoq:

I recently got my mame PC up and running... 2.4ghz p4, 1gb ram, ArcadeVGA as the vid card (Radeon 9250 at heart)

Runs basically everything on MAME excepting the 3d stuff.  Been very pleased with it.  It was a box I picked up from another user in the buy/sell/trade forum

TheManuel:

If you don't care for 3-D games (I don't) the compromises are less.
Older 3D arcade games look like crap to me anyway.

If this is your case, I am setting up a MAME machine with a PIII-800MHz 512MB SDRAM and can run most 2-D games full speed with MAME v0.104 (any version before 0.107 that has all or most of the games you want would do).
The exceptions are:
- Mortal Kombat Series.  Here, I use fastmame v0.56 and it runs the games full speed but not by a big margin.  The roms have remained unchanged since then.
- Street Fighter III Series.  Here, I'm screwed.  You need close to 2GHz to play this full speed
- I might be missing other taxing 2-D games that I don't know about.

If using an older computer, full 0.36 romsets can still be found.

Good Luck.

maxmix:

Argggg Dont fo it !  :hissy:

Do you realise how rare that cabinet is here in the UK... We have none left over here  :dizzy:

maxmix

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