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MAME requirements?

  • 05-05-2008 3:25pm
    #1
    Pigman II
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    Is there any sites out there that give info on how souped up a PC would have to be to play particular titles eg "game xxxx" requires "yyyy" but "game zzzz" requires yyyy-100" etc.

    I'm currently running mame on 2gig laptop and I found it couldn't handle Blitz 99 (American Football), so I'm guessing there's many others that will likewise fail on a computer of that spec?

    I'm planning to get a dedicated desktop computer for MAME and I want to know what games I will/won't be able to get running depending on how fast it is.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    xsiborg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    http://www.mombu.com/games/mame/t-rom-system-requirements-1429816.html

    short answer- no.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAME


  • #3
    the_new_mr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭the_new_mr


    Yeah, it's very varied.

    I still haven't seen Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 running properly. Fastest I've tried it on is a 1.8 Athlon XP with 512 MB RAM.

    Street Fighter Alpha 3 and The Simpsons arcade on the other hand work like a dream so it's hard to guage it really.


  • #4
    zilog_jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    A lot of newer games (post mid-90s, especially 3D) won't run full speed on anything. My PC (Core 2 Duo E6300) struggles with stuff like Tekken 3 for example.

    The MAME guys are really serious about emulating everything *properly* - making the games playable is not their priority - compared to PS1, N64 emulators, etc. where they use a lot of hacks/workarounds and assembler programming (MAME is all written in C for platform independance) to make things run decently but not necessarily accurately.


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