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Title: Where is the overclocking option on MAME these days?
Post by: DarthMarino on March 20, 2014, 11:14:05 pm

On the older versions of MAME, one of the slider options allowed you to overclock the CPU.  This got rid of slowdown on some games like the regular Metal Slug 2.  Have they removed this from newer versions of the program? I can't seem to find it.

Title: Re: Where is the overclocking option on MAME these days?
Post by: DaveMMR on March 21, 2014, 04:46:40 pm

Do you have to enable cheats to get this?  From the Mame FAQ:

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Metal Slug (Series)
Gameplay is choppy at times, but I have enough CPU power?
Although the FPS counter shows 100% speed for these games, they may appear choppy. This is true to the original — even the original hardware of these games struggled with them and therefore the choppiness is actually accurate emulation of these games. You may be able to get rid of it in some cases by using the -cheat parameter, hitting the tilde key and browsing the on screen menu until you find "CPU overclocking". This will run the emulated CPU faster which may or may not fix it. It may also cause the emulation to have errors, so don't bug people if overclocking screws up a game.

Title: Re: Where is the overclocking option on MAME these days?
Post by: DarthMarino on March 21, 2014, 06:48:08 pm

Yeah. That did the trick as I hadn't enabled them on the new version.  Thanks.