Building a MAME arcade cabinet...

[Frogacuda]

Gah, they havent even gotten ST-V stuff right.

This isn't really fair. ST-V has made huge strides this year and much of it runs perfectly well, and even gets decent speed.

SSF is the best emu for saturn stuff and it recently added ST-V support, so that might be the best way to go, but MAME is fine for firing up a game of Silvergun or Cotton 2 or whatever.

As for Model 3... You can actually run VF3 and VOOT and shit in Mame now, which is crazy, given how little high level emulation there is. Not playable, and the textures and lighting are out of whack, but still. The Model 2 games don't even display polygons yet.

Star Wars Trilogy Arcade is actually playable, but it runs like a slideshow.

The sad thing is unless we're talking about hardware with multiple CPUs (like Saturn) multi-core will do very little to speed up emulation, so it'll probably be a very, very long time before we see stuff like Model 3 or newer midway games (like San Francisco Rush) emulating at full speed.

[Tain]

For Model 2 games, try m2emulator. House of the Dead, Gunbird, Fighting Vipers, etc., all of those run really well on it. Dynomite Cop, lol, etc.

I tried House of the Dead a week or so ago. It was pretty nice, but there were way too many visual errors to make me think about putting it in a cab or anything. The sky was full of random polygons.

[Frogacuda]

I tried House of the Dead a week or so ago. It was pretty nice, but there were way too many visual errors to make me think about putting it in a cab or anything. The sky was full of random polygons.

It doesn't work right on ATI cards. There's a fix option in the ini, but it's not 100%

[andyrose]

Yeah, I'm using an nVidia 6600 in this box, and it's great. The cool thing about that emulator is that you can change the resolution of the game itself.

[Tain]

It doesn't work right on ATI cards. There's a fix option in the ini, but it's not 100%

Ah, damn, when I checked the ini just now it was already on. ;_;

Good to know it's fine for nVidia folk though.

I wonder why VF2 hasn't been emulated, though. I know that there are different versions of the Model 2 hardware, but I'm surprised that an emulator can get so far while not supporting all of 'em.

[Frogacuda]

I wonder why VF2 hasn't been emulated, though. I know that there are different versions of the Model 2 hardware, but I'm surprised that an emulator can get so far while not supporting all of 'em.

It's a lack of documentation regarding the variants in the hardware coupled with the fact that the emu hasn't been worked on for years.

[Diff-chan]

Miss Nude World 96 is the creepiest game ever.

Like, really, who thought putting disgusting pictures of stacks of bodies and stuff in a nudie game? The cheesy unliscensed music seals it, too.

Qix + hot girls (the girls are pretty good looking man, but yea the pictures are, well... explicit as hell) = good game. The only thing is I cant really figure out what makes that bar on the top move up and down, but whatever.

Don Doko Don rocks, though.

This isn't really fair. ST-V has made huge strides this year and much of it runs perfectly well, and even gets decent speed.

Eh, I wasnt impressed, but I wasnt really dissing it too much. I own both RS and Souky so its fine.

As for Model 3 VOOT... twin sticks pls.

[Videodrone]

Havn't updated my cab in a few years (1 1/2-2). What good game releases have I missed out on? I see Silvergun and Clutch Hitter have been added. Anything else that is playable worth checking out?

[Frogacuda]

Havn't updated my cab in a few years (1 1/2-2). What good game releases have I missed out on? I see Silvergun and Clutch Hitter have been added. Anything else that is playable worth checking out?

Were you around for all the Sega shit that got added? That was probably about a year and a half ago. Like all the pre-3D sega games work like Galaxy Force, Thunderblade, AB Cop. Tons and tons of good shit, there. Osman might be newer than that, too. Oh, and the Seibu SPI games like Raiden Fighters and Viper Phase 1 work now, but the sound blows. Some of the Data East stuff works, like Night Slashers, Fighter's History...

A lot's happened, really. MAME was a rollercoaster of new updates for a while, but it's slowed down in the last 6 months.

[Videodrone]

Missed all that stuff. Guess I better figure a way to get up-to-date.