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bkenobi:
You can get TV out other ways, but, for the price of that system, you might as well get the second PC.

I was trying to be a bit facetious about the CHDs on that system (or any system really).  I have a full set of CHDs for 0.125 or so and find that most games don't play that well and that about 3/4 of them are rhythm games anyway.  I wouldn't mind getting the LD CHDs, but they are so bloated that I can't really justify it with the current HDD in my system.
Beretta:

--- Quote from: endrien on September 10, 2009, 05:40:24 am ---I doubt it would be miss, my crappy laptop can handle all my mame games fine, main reason I want a desktop in there is svideo to use a TV instead of a PC monitor.

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did'n tthe cab you bought have a working arcade monitor? just use that you dont need svideo out to hook up to one you can directly from the db15 vga port.

you said athlon 64 so im assuming it's a older single core 64, well even if it was a newer x2 you'd still need to OC It to play all games 100%

try out some of the 3d games on that system you'll see how badly it will choke try running mortal kombat 4, san franciso rush, or gauntlet legends by for example..

i doubt when you say your laptop handles all games fine you're actually trying to run the games im talking about, and im sure the athlon 64 can't.

im not saying that system wont be suitable.. im saying you should test the games you care about most before using it.. nothing will suck more then getting everything setup only to find you can't play a game you really want to.

if it's not fast enough for a game you wanna play then you have to decide if it's important enough to get a faster system or if you can live without it, but do this before you put the effort into setting everything up not after.
bkenobi:
There is a difference between games that have a 3d type area and true 3d games.  As an example, you can move around in 3d with NBA Jam or TMNT, but those are not 3d games.  SF Rush is a 3d game and uses a 3DFX graphics accelerator in the cabinet.  That game (among others) requires the system to emulate the 3d hardware with your CPU.  Those games will not run at 100% speed on anything but a very fast system (by todays standards) as I have heard.  I still haven't seen Carnevil or any other 3d game run at full speed since I'm running an Athlon XP 3200+ in my cab.  Even when I ran some games on my primary system, they weren't full speed (Athlon x2 4600).
endrien:

--- Quote from: Beretta on September 10, 2009, 12:26:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: endrien on September 10, 2009, 05:40:24 am ---I doubt it would be miss, my crappy laptop can handle all my mame games fine, main reason I want a desktop in there is svideo to use a TV instead of a PC monitor.

--- End quote ---
did'n tthe cab you bought have a working arcade monitor? just use that you dont need svideo out to hook up to one you can directly from the db15 vga port.

you said athlon 64 so im assuming it's a older single core 64, well even if it was a newer x2 you'd still need to OC It to play all games 100%

try out some of the 3d games on that system you'll see how badly it will choke try running mortal kombat 4, san franciso rush, or gauntlet legends by for example..

i doubt when you say your laptop handles all games fine you're actually trying to run the games im talking about, and im sure the athlon 64 can't.

im not saying that system wont be suitable.. im saying you should test the games you care about most before using it.. nothing will suck more then getting everything setup only to find you can't play a game you really want to.

if it's not fast enough for a game you wanna play then you have to decide if it's important enough to get a faster system or if you can live without it, but do this before you put the effort into setting everything up not after.

--- End quote ---
The monitor wasn't working right and when I took it out to repair and put back in it didn't work.  My laptop can play any 2d mame game I've played, not sure about 3d.
Its a dell inspiron 1300 with
1.7ghz cpu, 512mb ram and intel 915gm/GMS,910GML express graphics.
Beretta:
you can get a speed boost if you run mame on a 64bit os along with a x64 build of mame.

since you have a 64bit cpu, it wont be night and day compared to 32bit setup, but it is a measurable increase and every little bit helps.
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