but aren't these more the exception than the norm? I do understand that there are some games that require a bit more horse power as well as a few games that have trouble running on the fastest PCs currently out there. overall nothing to brag about.įrom other sites dedicated to building Mame cabs, having a high end PC is something I don't recall them saying was a requirement. It's an AMD Thunderbird running at 1.2Ghz, 256MB Ram and 40GB HD. The PC I am currently using is one that my daughter was literally going to throw out. I am new to building a cab and things (but I pick things up fast) and I always thought that part of the beauty of Mame was its low overhead and that the Roms could run on a very sparse computer. ROCK64 is a credit card sized Single Board Computer powered by Rockchip RK3328 quad-core ARM Cortex A53 64-Bit Processor and support up. what games do you run that a 3Ghz PC is starting to wane? Just out of curiosity, and I am being sincere not snide. However, when its the only one that works well, it becomes the best option. Out of frustration I may have to go with GameEx, which while a great program, is not really the best option for what I want out of my machine.
I would say right now is a rough time to make the jump to a 64 bit OS, just from my personal experience of trying to get a front end to work. Personally I just upgraded to a 64bit processor, and while I love the performance, Im having difficulty with supporting programs, where in XP everything worked. If I want perhaps the best possible performance, but the most difficult time to set things up, with the least support available, which OS should I us? If Im looking to build a cheap machine to run games from the 80's, which OS should I go for? Which OS is the most supported software wise? Which OS runs mame the fastest with a moderate amount of support and drivers?Ī.
The question is too open ended is the problem. But if money was no object I'm sure everyone would upgrade. It's always nice to be able to run some of the more demanding games.īottom line is though 64 bit XP or Vista answers the question, but as cab users, it is something subjective. I don't know if I'll be upgrading my cab any time soon, but I know I will want to eventually.
So if I was to build a new cab even the bottom end new PC's are dual core now (E8400 for example is a cheap CPU but perfect for running Mame), so it makes sense to put a 64 bit OS with it.
Anyway dont expect arcade games of the 90 to work at full speed. This MAME4droid version is targeted to Dual-Core devices, because it is based on a high specs 2010 PC MAME build. MAME4droid (0.139u1) emulates arcade games supported by original MAME 0.139u1. When I built the PC for my cab, a P4 3Ghz was a decent machine for running Mame. MAME4droid (0.139u1) is developed by David Valdeita (Seleuco), port of MAME 0.139u1 emulator by Nicola Salmoria and TEAM.
So as a cab user, we need to decide whether or not were going to keep up with Mame, 64 bit and dual core's or stay with an old 32 bit OS and perhaps stop updating Mame eventually when the megahertz arn't enough. Check out the benchmarking thread in the main forum. If 64 bit OS's are the future, then the future is already here. The question is "Which OS is best for MAME?" and it's a 64-bit OS meaning XP 64 or Vista 64 without a doubt in my opinion.