TheWedgie Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Greetings - has anyone looked at / tried to run MAME on one of these? Picked up a few of these boards, and had planned to slip one into an old NES case I have here, for NES/SNES goodness, but had considered chucking MAME on there as well. Specs for those too lazy to click: CPU: 1GHz VIA C3 processor MEM: 1Gb DDR233 GFX: 64mb Integrated VIA UniChromeTM IGP graphics with AGP interface I'd only planned on playing a few of the older games, Metal Slug, DonPachi etc. -Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevoDave Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 You'll struggle with Metal Slug I think. If you target the really old classics then you'll be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pinny Parlour Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I've heard that they are poor for MAME. I haven't had any experience with these. I think the size is great. :) Try it and please let us know your results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWedgie Posted January 9, 2008 Author Share Posted January 9, 2008 Thanks guys. Might give it a crack just setup on the desk here first. Might have to splash some coin and get a better CPU based board. -Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XiTaU Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 put raine on there it should run no probs it doesnt run neo games but will run dodonpachi and many others. Im sure there is a low processor usage emu which will run neo geo roms if you look around. I know you can run neo geo cd roms in a version of raine that might be another alternate solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I'd only planned on playing a few of the older games, Metal Slug, DonPachi etc. VIA C3 has piss poor FPU performance. 1GHz without FPU isn't enough to get full frame rate out of DoDonPachi. Minimum for that is around 1.2GHz with a good FPU (say, a Duron or Athlon level chip). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWedgie Posted January 9, 2008 Author Share Posted January 9, 2008 Thanks elvis - I reckon I'll just leave it as a NES/SNES emulator then... MAME can wait for another system. (Will have a crack at MAME first tho, just waiting for the RAM) -Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 1GHz C3 should get you full speed Capcom CPS1 and CPS2 I'm pretty sure. Maybe even Neo Geo. Give it a whirl and see how you go. DoDonPachi was on Cave's middle generation boards, and they had a bit of craziness going on with their 2D sprite manipulation chips, as well as needing a bit of oomph to break the encryption on their bullet pattern chips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Dan_ Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 It should be about on par with a Pentium 3 500. The general rule is to half the Mhz and then think of it as a P3. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pinny Parlour Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I hope your still at least going to try it. I would like to see some actual concrete results running MAME on this hardware. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XiTaU Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 as i stated give raine a try also as it requires a whole lot less computing power. Dodonpachi runs great on a pIII 800 and probably would on that system also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Dan_ Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 If anyone else is after these, gamedude seams to have some 1.5 gig ITX C3 Via's on his website. Probably around PIII 800 odd performance. PM him in the next 10 seconds and I'm sure he will sell you one for a dollar :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameDude Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Actually I have something better... EX-Gov Small Form Factor Black desktops. 1Ghz Pentium3 256meg 10gig HDD Keyboard and mouse ect... I am selling them out at $49each minimum 2 purchased or $69 each single... Maybe I will start a thread about them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Actually I have something better... EX-Gov Small Form Factor Black desktops. 1Ghz Pentium3 256meg 10gig HDD Keyboard and mouse ect... I am selling them out at $49each minimum 2 purchased or $69 each single... Maybe I will start a thread about them... For less than the cost of a USB stick that's a lot of MAME power there. 1GHz PIII with 256MB would cover CPS2, NeoGeo and older without hassles. You might need to chuck another 128/256MB in there for bigger games - any of the KOF games, DoDonPachi, Gunbird 2, etc all extract out to around 300MB when in use, and MAME needs access to all of the ROM information (swap/virtual memory won't work). But otherwise for the price that's crazy-cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewcarey Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Actually I have something better... EX-Gov Small Form Factor Black desktops. 1Ghz Pentium3 256meg 10gig HDD Keyboard and mouse ect... I am selling them out at $49each minimum 2 purchased or $69 each single... Maybe I will start a thread about them... Sounds great, I've sent you a PM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWedgie Posted October 1, 2018 Author Share Posted October 1, 2018 Over 10 years later and I've still got these things sitting in the todo box. Outrageous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajfclark Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 Over 10 years later and I've still got these things sitting in the todo box. Outrageous.I realised the other day that my neo geo cab has been a project since 2000. I think I need to move it on before it gets to 20 years of incompleteness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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