How well does Tekken and Virtua fighter run in MAME?

[TelcoLou]

I was playing VF in my version .110 mame the other night, and though it's playable, it has noticeable tearing. Is the .128 version better? Same query for Tekken.

(I know this has likely been addressed before, but I'm at work, and my searching abilities are limited ATM...)

[Bender]

both seem to run pretty well on a 64 bit system

couldn't even get Tekken to load on the same computer running a 32 bit os

[ViciousXUSMC]

I never tried so just tried it.

Tekken
Tekken 2
Tekken 3

All 3 loaded, and ran fine under .129 full speed with no probems at all under x86, I did not use or need x64 so do not think its a requirement, I guess it may help if your computer is slower.

However all 3 games get a "yellow" mame menu noting they have emulation problems.  Says video & sound are not 100%  video looked fine but the sound I could tell the announcer voice was kind of muted & muffled some.

Very playable though.

Edit: Version does matter

I just tried .117 since I keep it around for my Wiimote (wiimote wont work with later versions) and Tekken 3 was in slow motion

[BASS!]

Just load zinc and get that running. It even uses your graphics card!

[TelcoLou]

Just load zinc and get that running. It even uses your graphics card!

... I tried. It gave me a headache 

Thanks for the replies folks, I'll get the .128 versions of both games and try it out when I get home tonight, or maybe tomorrow morning.

[ViciousXUSMC]

Just got Zinc, it says in the readme that it has sound & even speed emulation problems for stuff too.

I have not tried it out yet though.

[dreamakuma]

after I upgraded from 0.81 to 0.103 I have tekken, virtua fighter, beasterizer, street fighter EX and EX plus, and battle arena toshinden, running playable. sound issues pop up and a few small issues with EX(characters will dissapear and respawn on the other side of the screen.) But very playable.

[TAG]

I'll get the .128 versions of both games and try it out when I get home tonight, or maybe tomorrow morning.

If I recall correctly, the past few versions of MAME have made some big advances with the PSX based games like Tekken, so you're probably on the right track using that version.

[ViciousXUSMC]

Zinc was a no go for me, have not quite figured out how to get the renderer path set, tried a GUI and it says my roms are not there even tho I set the directory and the same ones work in mame.

Guess I will stick with mame.

[dkubarek]

I run Tekken 2 on mine with a Pent 1.6, gig of ram, using Mame .129. It is playable but surely not full speed. I really don't have a point of reference, tho, because I really didn't play that one a lot.

[ViciousXUSMC]

For reference its full speed on my cpu a Q6600 @ 3.6ghz

I have the multi-core flag on in mame but I think it only uses 2 cores not all 4.

[Ginsu Victim]

I just use the "PSX" emulator with the ISOs.

[Turnarcades]

I just use the "PSX" emulator with the ISOs.

Snap. Better speed at low spec, more options for gameplay... pisses on the arcade versions. Same goes for Soul Edge, SF EX, Rival Schools...... need I go on?

[ViciousXUSMC]

I just use the "PSX" emulator with the ISOs.

Snap. Better speed at low spec, more options for gameplay... pisses on the arcade versions. Same goes for Soul Edge, SF EX, Rival Schools...... need I go on?

Yeah but you lose that insert credits now message

Same applies for a lot of games actually, not sure why anybody likes it but MK4 was another game that people have trouble with, and the best solution was MK Gold for dreamcast.

For me just using my computer to emulate its all the same, for somebody with a cab and some kind of front end that they like where its all loaded into one thing and easy to use via the arcade controls I can see why they may push to get the mame version working instead of adopting the consoles version.

[ivwshane]

If you guys aren't posting your pc specs then it's hard to gauge a games playability.

[TelcoLou]

Report:

Got my .128 versions and Tekken 1 plays damn-near perfect, as far as I can tell. No noticeable tearing, gameplay is nice and smooth.

Virtua Fighter is better, but still seeing some polygon tearing and randomly appearing triangles, but very playable.

Oh my specs are WinXP home, P4 @3ghz, 2GB RAM, and a 256mb Radeon gfx card.

I may give the PSX emu a go ... some day.

Thanks for all the help folks