Wasn't there a Playstation One Port of Mame???

[Zeitgeist]

Does anyone recall if there was ever a playstation port of MAME?
I seem to rember this at one time but I can't find anything on it.
Perhaps it's just my memory failing me...

[Lilwolf]

I dont' remember seeing one (I think I would have at least tried it with a ps emulator (my ps1 isn't modded))

I don't think it has the raw horsepower to really play much.  But then again... mamed is pretty amazing.

[TheGatesofBill]

There is a MAME for the PS2, not sure about the PS1.

[Howard_Casto]

Considering the ps1 is almost as powerful as a snes, I wouldn't bother.    Remember the sony playstation started it's life as one of nintendo's throw-away add-ons for the snes.  

[Zeitgeist]

Bummer
Thanks

[shmokes]

Considering the ps1 is almost as powerful as a snes, I wouldn't bother.    Remember the sony playstation started it's life as one of nintendo's throw-away add-ons for the snes.  

If I remember correctly, The only part Nintendo commissioned Sony to make was a CD-ROM drive.  I could be wrong about that.  At any rate, in terms of power the Playstation is considerably more powerful than the Super NES, at the very least for polygon based graphics, if not 2D, sprites, etc.

[TalkingOctopus]

The playstation was more powerful than SNES and the NeoGeo.  I think that it had 32 bit running at around 33 mHz w/ about 2 MB of RAM.  However, this is still not good enough to run MAME...

[dommer]

Well, SNES had no real 3-D processing power at all.  It had that system 7 or mode 11 or whatever it was called, which essentially was just hardware for translating, transforming and rotating sprites, it gave a lot of SNES games that pseudo 3D thing they had going.  But it was pretty underpowered, compared to Genesis, which was I believe running on the Motorola 68XXX chip.  SNES made up for it though, with slightly prettier graphics and the best in-house development team in the world.

[Jakobud]

Considering the ps1 is almost as powerful as a snes,

You kidding right?  I can't remember any polygon or 3d vector math based games on the SNES  

[wboy]

what about Starfox and Stunt FX?  with the added help of the FX chip within the cartridge that is....

As for PS1 emulation... check out imbnes.gamebase.ca

Nifty NES emulator for the PSX/1 and PS2.

Playing the NES version of Galaga and other arcade conversions is the closest you'll get to MAME on the PS1.

[paigeoliver]

Adding some 3D hardware doesn't inherently make a system anymore powerful, and certainly not for emulation.

The Playstation is the PC equivalent of a 33MHZ 486dx with 2MB of RAM.

While the Super Nes is the equivalent of a 4 mhz 286 processor with no math coprocessor and the superfx chip games added the equivalent of that coprocessor.

Both are capable of quite a bit, but neither is really suitable for emulation. A good programmer could probably emulate some of the slower, simpler titles (not to mention the ones with small rom sizes), on the playstation, but anything else would have to be ported.

The only reason PC games didn't just blow away console games back in the older days is because PC video hardware was far from standardized, and thus the programmers couldn't do much to take advantage of what WAS there.

It still isn't standardized, but now it is so powerful that it doesn't matter, which is why PC games will probably eternally remain far ahead of console games graphically.

[krick]

In case anyone is interested, there's quite a few collections of arcade games on the PS1.  Most (if not all) of them are emulated and not ported.  Here's some...


Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1 (Sony PlayStation) - Released 1996
http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/games.html#atari1

Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Midway Collection 2 (Sony PlayStation) - Released 1997
http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/games.html#midway2psx

Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 2 (Sony PlayStation) - Released 1998
http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/games.html#atari2

Arcade Party Pak (Sony PlayStation) - Released 1999
http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/games.html#apppsx

Q*Bert classic mode (Sony PlayStation) - Released 1999
http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/games.html#qbert

Atari Anniversary Edition Redux (Sony PlayStation) - Released 2001
http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/games.html#aaepsx

[wboy]

wasn't there also 4 namco collection cds offically released, as well as the Capcom Generations  collection for PSX.