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georgemcfly:

I know these games were made years ago, but  also know some emulators take some processing power to run smoothly.

My questions:
What system specs do you run?
What systems do you emulate?
What piece is the most crucial for emulator performance? *CPU speed, mem amount, HD speed*?


I see some peoople running dual core 4G+ systems with 10K HD's and I KNOW MAME's have been around long before these systems were. Just want to make sure my system will do what I want it to.

I want to run NES, SNES and arcade. That's about it.

You guys with high end PC's, why do you run them?

Thanks for the info,
George

Ginsu Victim:


--- Quote ---I see some peoople running dual core 4G+ systems with 10K HD's
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Huh?  ???

HaRuMaN:


--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on August 08, 2008, 09:51:25 am ---
--- Quote ---I see some peoople running dual core 4G+ systems with 10K HD's
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Huh?  ???

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That's what I said...

risiusj:


--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on August 08, 2008, 09:51:25 am ---
--- Quote ---I see some peoople running dual core 4G+ systems with 10K HD's
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Huh?  ???

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He's talking about dual core (or Core 2 Duo) systems with 4 GB of ram and 10,000 rpm hard drives.  Or maybe he's talking about 4 Ghz cpus.  Either way, that powerful of hardware is going to be unnecessary for most of those looking to make a MAME machine.

To answer the main question:
Emulation is mostly about CPU capability and of course RAM. 
NES and SNES emulation runs fine on computers that are 5 years old.  In my experience arcade emulation runs similarly.  So, if you can play a SNES game from 1993 on your system you can play an arcade game from 1993.


Ginsu Victim:

My "huh?" was directed at "10k HDs"

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