Building a MAME arcade cabinet...

[Kidnemo]

Xbox MAME is slower, has a way outdated game list, and it always outputs video with hardware stretching. I'd say just go for a cheap PC, myself.

Hmm, so it looks like an xbox is out.

I was thinking about picking up a cheap dell ('cause I dont have the time or inclination to build a pc right now).

I was thinking something like this and upgrading the RAM.

From looking at the mame site it seems okay, but I wanted to see what you cats thought.

[Game-maniacX]

I am running a 2.4 GHz system at the moment and most games in MAME run fine, however Dodonpachi was very slow in a version of MAME, I waited a couple of months and the new MAME plays Dodonpachi fine. But thats the thing with MAME, a game might be running fine now, but dont count on it next year so stick with your MAME version.

[Tain]

My machine is a 2.9 ghz Celeron D, 512 ram, 80 gig HD. Runs everything I want outside of ST-V games just fine. That should be good, Kidnemo.

DoDonPachi has been running at good speeds for a while now. It's odd that it would change like that.

[Kidnemo]

Sweet, thanks much guys.

Is there any place that has stuff about minimum system recommendations for roms?

One of the main things I wanna run is Killer Instinct, I've owned the actual hardware for years and never got to use it (not sure if it even works anymore), so finally getting to play that in the cab is gonna rock.

[Tain]

Can't say I know of a site like that.

Buut it looks like KI runs fine on my little old laptop (can't believe this game had FMV arenas, what a wierd approach), so it should be good on your machine.

[Bonestorm]

my cab has a athlon xp 2800+ and runs KI fine, but it struggles when running KI2

[Kidnemo]

That's cool, KI2 is poopy anyway. =D

[Diff-chan]

(can't believe this game had FMV arenas, what a wierd approach)

PROJECT REALITY!

[Frogacuda]

DoDonPachi has been running at good speeds for a while now. It's odd that it would change like that.

MAME gets slower as time goes on and the versions advance. When a system is pushing it, the people writing the drivers will make more compromises in the name of optimization, but then the will rewrite the drivers later to be more accurate and easier to understand, as computers need that optimization less.

[Shin Johnpv]

I have the old ultrahle emulator that was written to just run KI and KI2 and they both run way too fast on my current emu machine, (like 3 - 4x normal speed) and im just running an AMD Semperon 3100+

I know there was a program out there to convert the img file into a chd one to use in mame but alas it seems to have vanished from the internets