How much power?

[supa_al]

How much power is needed to run games like Crusin USA N such? They just run so choppy. Which are the racing games that you guys recommend that run pretty good?

[Agozer]

Well, I wouldn't play those "high-end" 3D games in MAME, but that's just me. If you really must play it in MAME, I'd suggest fiddling with the frameskip option or ultimately disabling sound emulation.

[supa_al]

Grrr...oh well. The only 3d games that i have that "play well" as its bigger brothers are KI and KI Gold. I tried the frame skip thing and it looks ugly, or disabling sound is no fun. Oh well, i could always get them for N64 but its not the same.

 

 

By the way does anybody remember a racing game that was on the NES where you drive trucks, its like a side view, but you control them from top view. Its hard to explain but the course has like oil that must be avoided and stuff, and wrenches so you can power up or something.

 

Too bad i dont remember the name but just curious if it was on mame.

[Agozer]

By the way does anybody remember a racing game that was on the NES where you drive trucks, its like a side view, but you control them from top view.  Its hard to explain but the course has like oil that must be avoided and stuff, and wrenches so you can power up or something.

 

Too bad i dont remember the name but just curious if it was on mame.

I don't know the name either, but do you know if the NEs versionwas a port from the arcade? If so, ten there's a great chance tht MAME does emulate it.

 

If the game was NES-only, then MAME doen't emulate it most likely.

 

 

Btw, regarding your original post, what are your computer specs?

Edited October 22, 2004 by Agozer

[supa_al]

Im running a pentium 4, 3 GHz, 1Gig of ram, ati 9700 pro videocard, and about 200 gigs of HD

 

Is there something im missing?...hm...i think i left out something.

 

How about ur comp Agozer?

 

Mine is ok, it's enough to do my gaming and 3d modeling.

Edited October 22, 2004 by supa_al

[Weirdy]

most likely about 4 gigs of cpu for those games

[Agozer]

How about ur comp Agozer?

Mine is an AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 512MB RAM, ATi Radeon 9800 Pro.

 

But yeah, I think Weirdy hit the bullseye

[supa_al]

Yeah im pretty sure more power is needed. It's just funny how old these games are and that they require more power than Doom 3, lol. Doom 3 on my comp fits like a glove, but games like Blitz chug like crazy.

 

How about you Weirdanzeige, what are you running? Is there any other 3d game on mame that runs quite well on your guys comps?

[James]

http://www.mame.net/mamefaq.html#m14

 

In emulation world, megahertz is not analogous from your main CPU to the emulated CPU. MAME not only rigorously emulates every opcode of the emulated CPU(s), but also memory interfaces, video output and sound emulation, and all this in portable C code. See also the next question.

[supa_al]

Ic -----()-()-----

 

I did not know that. I should just accept what we have and be thankful for it, but hey it couldnt hurt to ask.

 

All i need now though is a controller to use instead of the ol faithful (keyboard)

 

Ive been looking into the super joypad 5 for the ps2, the one where you can hook up 4 ps controllers.

 

Is this a cool gadget to get or do you guys have better ones?

[ugenn]

Grrr...oh well.  The only 3d games that i have that "play well" as its bigger brothers are KI and KI Gold.  I tried the frame skip thing and it looks ugly, or disabling sound is no fun.  Oh well, i could always get them for N64 but its not the same.

 

 

By the way does anybody remember a racing game that was on the NES where you drive trucks, its like a side view, but you control them from top view.  Its hard to explain but the course has like oil that must be avoided and stuff, and wrenches so you can power up or something.

 

Too bad i dont remember the name but just curious if it was on mame.

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KI isn't 3D. It only uses prerendered 3D models.

[supa_al]

OH you know what i mean...lol.

 

 

It is a shame that they had to stop with KI Gold. It's on of those fighting games that had kick ass music. Rare always put effort in the sound department. I got both the Killer Cuts and KI Gold soundtracks.

 

I bumb KI in my truck with my 9000 watt earthquake subs.

[ugenn]

OH you know what i mean...lol.

 

Actually I don't. Your original point was the emulation speed of 3d games on mame and then you went on to benchmark it against KI. My reply to you earlier was to show that such a benchmark is invalid since KI is not a real 3d game that runs off a polygon engine but rather a typical sprite-based raster engine. And you proceeded to sway off on a tangent by talking about gameplay instead as quoted...

 

It is a shame that they had to stop with KI Gold.  It's on of those fighting games that had kick ass music.  Rare always put effort in the sound department.  I got both the Killer Cuts and KI Gold soundtracks.

 

I bumb KI in my truck with my 9000 watt earthquake subs. 

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[Agozer]

I've said this a few times before, but one more time can't hurt...

 

You basically need 10x - 15x faster CPU than the CPU a program is trying to emulate in order to achive the so-called "perfect" emulation speed.

 

Of course, this is not the whole story, since sound emulation and possible emulation of special addon chips (i.e. SNES had numerous) contribute as well.