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Ummon:
I've noticed some games rom/ram checks are very fast, and some pretty slow. I can understand with later games, but I'm talking about golden age games. For example, DK is about a second. Pac-man/Ms Pac take several seconds. How come?

Turnarcades:
I have no tech knowledge but at a guess I would say it depends on the amount of chips on the board, plus the game designer probably set it so each rom chip is checked a set number of times, whereas others were just once.

RayB:
Which games for example? I've never seen it take long, but I use very old versions of MAME.

Justin Z:
Arkanoid is the first example that pops into my head.  There's a countdown when you first boot the machine that is several seconds as I recall.

RayB:
Oh the INTERNAL checks. They are slow because the game is throttled to it's "real" CPU speed. If you want to skip those, press F10 to turn off throttling, then turn it back on when it's done (which will be like, less than a second later).

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