Best MAME version for this setup.

[johnm160]

I am looking for some advise on what version of MAME I should run on this setup.

Athlon 2600, 512k memory. running and ntlited version of xp

Going in a four player cab for fighting as well as other horozontal games. I don't recall what CHD games might be included in this mix. there will not be any shooters such as Area 51 on this machine and I know things like Gauntlet Legends will not play on anything.

Any help would be appreciated. I don't want to dump gigs of games on here only to have to delete them and put a different version back on.

Oh, and just to narrow the choices down a bit, my romset choices are:

.62
.69
.92
.108
.112

Thanks

John
 

[johnm160]

Any recommendations.........Feelings...........best guesses...........anything.......

[Tiger-Heli]

MAME is processor dependent, not memory dependent.

http://www.stickfreaks.com/benchmark/search_all.php will give you an idea of what speed each game will get with differerent versions and sticks.

I use and XP 2800 myself.  You aren't going to have many games that won't work on that hardware that will work on a previous version, and if the ROMS work correctly, you can always run an older version of MAME to check speed provided the ROMS still work.

Personally, I would go with either 0.108 which gets you the later Golden Tee games and the new artwork format, or 112 which get you more games, but will be slightly slower.

[johnm160]

Thanks for the reply Tiger, I will check that link out. I am trying out 113 now since I was able to just transfer it over the network. If that does not work, or works too slow I will be loading dvd's one at a time which is what I was trying to avoid.