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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

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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.
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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).

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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.

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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

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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...

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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.

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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!

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  • 10 years later...
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.
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