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MAME Versions with Older PCs
XyloSesame:
Alright, I've spent the past couple days reading and searching both the BYOAC and mameworld forums and still don't quite have an answer. I've read the wikis, the FAQs, benchmarks, and numerous posts regarding older machines, older versions of emulators, blah blah. I think I'm just too dense to fill in the blanks from all of the information.
I've not upgraded since .62 and figure it might be time. I'm running an AthlonXP 1900+ with 1GB RAM and have no idea what version of MAME would perform best on this older rig.
Any opinions or thoughts?
SGT:
Are there some roms you want to play that Mame .62 doesn't support? I like Mame .100 for some older machines, but you can obviously run later versions depending upon what games you play. Its real easy to try out different versions of Mame at the same time as you probably already know.
Put each version of Mame in a different folder, use "mame -cc" to create a mame.ini file, and then edit rompath in the mame.ini file to point to your roms. Obviously some of your roms will not work with the newer versions, but at least you can get an idea of the newest version of Mame you can run without an obvious slow down with your machine.
gonzo90017:
I would go with FastMame 84. I don't see too many games added since then. And if there are it's not worth the speed hit. I'm using it on an AMD Sempron 2200. And it runs great.
XyloSesame:
--- Quote from: SGT on October 30, 2007, 06:55:29 pm ---Are there some roms you want to play that Mame .62 doesn't support? I like Mame .100 for some older machines, but you can obviously run later versions depending upon what games you play. Its real easy to try out different versions of Mame at the same time as you probably already know.
Put each version of Mame in a different folder, use "mame -cc" to create a mame.ini file, and then edit rompath in the mame.ini file to point to your roms. Obviously some of your roms will not work with the newer versions, but at least you can get an idea of the newest version of Mame you can run without an obvious slow down with your machine.
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I'm not interested in too many newer games; I think some of the fighters already in the .62 release I have are as flashy as I'd ever want to get. Of course, I don't really know, since I've neither had a newer release, nor stepped foot in a decent arcade in many moons...
I've been hesitant to try a newer version of MAME with older ROMS as I didn't think it would be a true test. As I understand the development, ROMS are both added and modified with releases; if I used a newer version with older ROMS, wouldn't I miss out on the corrected/modified ROMS?
There's a (very) good chance I've misunderstood how releases are handled; I guess I ought to visit the dev page again...
--- Quote from: gonzo90017 on October 30, 2007, 09:30:14 pm ---I would go with FastMame 84. I don't see too many games added since then. And if there are it's not worth the speed hit. I'm using it on an AMD Sempron 2200. And it runs great.
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I've read a lot of folks who like to stay in the .84 to .89, and some who go up to to .100; I figured I'd try to find a set in this range, but wasn't quite sure...
brandon:
why only up to .100? because of the changes to the video drivers in Mame?
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