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georgemcfly:
I know these games were made years ago, but also know some emulators take some processing power to run smoothly.
My questions:
What system specs do you run?
What systems do you emulate?
What piece is the most crucial for emulator performance? *CPU speed, mem amount, HD speed*?
I see some peoople running dual core 4G+ systems with 10K HD's and I KNOW MAME's have been around long before these systems were. Just want to make sure my system will do what I want it to.
I want to run NES, SNES and arcade. That's about it.
You guys with high end PC's, why do you run them?
Thanks for the info,
George
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote ---I see some peoople running dual core 4G+ systems with 10K HD's
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Huh? ???
HaRuMaN:
--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on August 08, 2008, 09:51:25 am ---
--- Quote ---I see some peoople running dual core 4G+ systems with 10K HD's
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Huh? ???
--- End quote ---
That's what I said...
risiusj:
--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on August 08, 2008, 09:51:25 am ---
--- Quote ---I see some peoople running dual core 4G+ systems with 10K HD's
--- End quote ---
Huh? ???
--- End quote ---
He's talking about dual core (or Core 2 Duo) systems with 4 GB of ram and 10,000 rpm hard drives. Or maybe he's talking about 4 Ghz cpus. Either way, that powerful of hardware is going to be unnecessary for most of those looking to make a MAME machine.
To answer the main question:
Emulation is mostly about CPU capability and of course RAM.
NES and SNES emulation runs fine on computers that are 5 years old. In my experience arcade emulation runs similarly. So, if you can play a SNES game from 1993 on your system you can play an arcade game from 1993.
Ginsu Victim:
My "huh?" was directed at "10k HDs"
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