Soul Caliber versions?

[garnerb350]

I trired playing Soul Caliber on Mame last night....is it a bad version? ( v129) Real choppy and sound all screwed up....
Soon I will be getting the Sega Dreamcast emulator....and I remember SC being one of the games that were for that actual system...Has anyone seen it for the emulator and is it any better?

[Ginsu Victim]

You already asked about Soul Calibur and got an answer in this thread:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=89164.0

As for your setup, it won't run NullDC full speed.

[garnerb350]

Sorry Ginsu...I guess my mind was elsewhere....

[Minwah]

Soul Calibur is one of the very few coin-op conversions which is actually better than the arcade version.

I couldn't comment on the state of the emulation with nullDC tho...

[garnerb350]

Whoa wait...Sorry....explain nullDC? 

[Hoopz]

You already asked about Soul Calibur and got an answer in this thread:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=89164.0

As for your setup, it won't run NullDC full speed.

It can actually do ok on some games in NullDC but nothing that is too graphic intensive.  I had a GeForce 3 TI 200 on a P3 1.8 Ghz or so and found some games to run ok while others sucked.  It may be something you play around with to see.  To be honest, the games I was playing in NullDC were mostly for young kids (3-5 age range) so I didn't try alot.

Whether or not it can play Soul Caliber, I have no idea.

[Ginsu Victim]

Whether or not it can play Soul Caliber, I have no idea.

I looked at his specs and compared how Soul Calibur ran on my 2 Ghz, and on my Dual Core 2 Ghz (with a decent video card, then through on-board video), and determined that his probably wouldn't run it at an enjoyable framerate. 2D games may fare better.

[Ginsu Victim]

Whoa wait...Sorry....explain nullDC? 

Dreamcast emulator. BIOS required.

[Hoopz]

Whether or not it can play Soul Caliber, I have no idea.

I looked at his specs and compared how Soul Calibur ran on my 2 Ghz, and on my Dual Core 2 Ghz (with a decent video card, then through on-board video), and determined that his probably wouldn't run it at an enjoyable framerate. 2D games may fare better.

I should probably try myself before posting, but since most don't do that anyway, I'm gonna ask anyway.... 

How does it fare with onboard video with a "newer" pc?  I have an AMD dual core something at home now.  I had to buy it instead of building it myself so I haven't looked at the specs in awhile.  With the normal, stock Intel on-board graphics, how does NullDC do?

I wasn't sure how their onboards graphics fared compared to that old GeForce 3 Ti200.  I would think that they have to be better/faster but I haven't done any testing.  For Mame, that card did everything I asked.  I knew better than to expect great things on NullDC with it, though I did try Rez and it ran fine. 

[Ginsu Victim]

Currently in my cab I have an AMD X2 2.0 ghz with 2 gigs of ram. The currently gameplay on Soul Calibur through the onboard video was almost full speed, but just slow enough to make me consider putting a video card in (unfortunately, the PCIe went bad on this board, so I can only use PCI video cards). Before the PCIe went out, I was running an X1650 with 512 vram. It ran the game perfect.

My new main system is an AMD Athlon 64 X2 +6100 (dual 3.1 Ghz) with 4 GB RAM and a 1 GB video card, but I've yet to try NullDC on it.

[Hoopz]

Currently in my cab I have an AMD X2 2.0 ghz with 2 gigs of ram. The currently gameplay on Soul Calibur through the onboard video was almost full speed, but just slow enough to make me consider putting a video card in (unfortunately, the PCIe went bad on this board, so I can only use PCI video cards). Before the PCIe went out, I was running an X1650 with 512 vram. It ran the game perfect.

My new main system is an AMD Athlon 64 X2 +6100 (dual 3.1 Ghz) with 4 GB RAM and a 1 GB video card, but I've yet to try NullDC on it.

Thanks.  I'll have to start testing it. 

[Ginsu Victim]

Oh, and before the dual 2 ghz, my cab had a single 2.0 ghz with 1 gb ram and a 128 MB AGP video card and it wouldn't run nulldc at all for some reason.

[garnerb350]

Ginzu...would my specs do ok with the N64 roms? I'm getting them shortly and with all this discussion...I was wondering if I might run into a problem with N64....

[Hoopz]

You'll be fine with an N64 emulator with that PC. 

[garnerb350]

Thanks Hoopz!!!