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vidmouse:
--- Quote from: Red on September 04, 2007, 12:02:44 am ---Can you use the latest MAME ROM set .118 on the older versions of MAME?
I have an older computer that I'd like to set up MAME on, but I only have the latest .118 MAME ROM set.
If not, is there any place to get an older MAME ROM set?
Thanks.
Red
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Depends on how far back you want to go,
and what roms specfically you need to work.
But since you have a 118 set, it's probably
easy enough to convert back using CLRMAMEpro
and old dat files (and I have found that this isn't
100%, but it gets you close enough).
I was able to convert back to MAME 0.53
this way in order to run on my PII 300 Mhz.
Worked great. Have since upgraded and
am currently using .106 mostly. Haven't noticed
any drawback on older stuff including asteroids
and am using a 1.8 Ghz P4, 512MB ram.
Games that I can now enjoy that I didn't before?
Just a couple that come to mind
(in roughly some order going up from .53 to .106)
Dungeon Magic (at full speed)
Rampage World Tour
Virtua Fighter
Raiden Fighters Jet
The Crystal of Kings
Avengers in Galactic Storm
Red:
Awesome. Thanks vidmouse.
Just curious though, are there sites that have the older MAME ROM sets like they do the older MAME versions? I looked, but all I could find was the older MAME versions themselves not the ROM sets.
Red
TOK:
--- Quote from: Apollo on September 04, 2007, 04:32:42 pm ---I'm still using mame .86 if anyone can give me a good reason to upgrade feel free.
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Robotron speed was fixed in .99.
This was major for me, since it was one of the reasons I built the cab.
taz-nz:
I'm no expert when it comes to emulators, but I've been running one version or another of M.A.M.E. for about the last 10 years, and any number of old school computer system emulators, and the one thing you need to know about all emulators is, is that they are all GHz whores. Most Emulators like M.A.M.E. are single threaded and thus gain little to nothing from Dual/Quad Core Processors, but in saying that the Intel Core 2 Duo looks to be the current CPU king for M.A.M.E. .
So my suggestion would be:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (3Ghz 9x333fsb)
Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme
(your choose of good quality 120mm fan)
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 motherboard
Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4 memory (2x DDR2-800 1GB Dimms)
Western Digital SATA Hard Drive (size or your choosing)
Gigabyte GV-RX26T256H graphics card (Ati Radeon 2600 XT)
(a good brand name 450+ watt Power Supply Zalman/Enermax/etc)
If it's going in a Cab install TinyXP Beast Edition on it, remove MSN,Firefox,ThunderBird and disable themes, otherwise just use WinXP, also only install the driver component of the ATI graphics drivers, don't bother with Catalyst Control Center.
Once you have all that assembled and tested, you should be able to overclock the CPU to 3.6Ghz (9x400fsb) easy.
If you want to go for more extreme get a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 or (DQ6) and Corsair TWIN2X2048-8500C5D G (2x DD2-1066 1GB Dimms) and aim for 4ghz >:D (8x500fsb).
That should run just about anything you can throw at it, but there are a couple of games in M.A.M.E. that may still bring it to it's knees. You'll need to check the graphics card requirements of the Non - M.A.M.E. emulators some of them take advantage of the GPU and a faster card may be a good idea.
This is probably at the extreme end of the PC hardware scale when it comes to running emulators, but it's not really that extreme by PC gaming standards.
tophatne1:
I know this is about MAME but what is the minimum you want for running Daphne as well? I haven't tried Daphne on anything yet but I would like to know since I have an old computer in mind.
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