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    mame2003-plus: hundreds of new games, improved input, features, new bugs - now with runahead support

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    • pjftP
      pjft @Capeman
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      @capeman I don't think the pi will run the Mr. Driller arcade version decently. Even on AdvMame it plays quite slow.

      For your Mr. Driller fix I would recommend the PSX version or GBC, GBA or Wonderswan.

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        skj
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        @markwkidd

        Is there anyway to disable the copyright/legal notice that pops up at the start of mame2003 plus?

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          markwkidd @skj
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          @skj said in mame2003-plus: 250 new games, new input system, new features, new bugs:

          @markwkidd

          Is there anyway to disable the copyright/legal notice that pops up at the start of mame2003 plus?

          It can be disabled via the Options menu in the RetroArch GUI (the menu you get when you press Start+Select)

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            skj @markwkidd
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            @markwkidd

            Thank you

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            • GreenHawk84G
              GreenHawk84
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              Any possibility of Golden Axe: Revenge of Death Adder backward support? Currently that game has some issues in Mame2003.

              Can I ask what exactly has been improved (as of today) with Mortal Kombat 2 and Ultimate MK3?

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              • LoggaheadL
                Loggahead
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                Is there an issue with highscores and bally midway games? Just confirmed that neither tapper or rbtapper are saving highscores in mame2003+. Any ideas?

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                  SunnyMo @Capeman
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                  @capeman said in mame2003-plus: 250 new games, new input system, new features, new bugs:

                  Ninja Baseball Bat Man

                  how about the performance of Ninja Baseball Bat Man, does it have slow down or sound shutter issue?

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                    Darksavior @SunnyMo
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                    @sunnymo said in mame2003-plus: 250 new games, new input system, new features, new bugs:

                    @capeman said in mame2003-plus: 250 new games, new input system, new features, new bugs:

                    Ninja Baseball Bat Man

                    how about the performance of Ninja Baseball Bat Man, does it have slow down or sound shutter issue?

                    The slowdown won't change. It's pretty much 60fps most of the time on my pi3b+ overclocked to 1.5ghz. mame2003/plus is the fastest way to play it too. FBA is much slower.

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                      SunnyMo @Darksavior
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                      @darksavior yeah, finally i choose lr-mame2003-plus to play the game, though it is not the fastest emulator(which is advmame3.8), but the most balanced one.

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                      • CapemanC
                        Capeman @Darksavior
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                        @darksavior said in mame2003-plus: 250 new games, new input system, new features, new bugs:

                        The slowdown won't change. It's pretty much 60fps most of the time on my pi3b+ overclocked to 1.5ghz. mame2003/plus is the fastest way to play it too. FBA is much slower.

                        I don't overclock mine, the game runs slower than 60fps for sure on both mame2003 and plus, you can tell in the sound, it sounds like its constantly stuttering. Not talking about standard game slowdown from too many sprites on screen, just overall performance.

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                          Darksavior @Capeman
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                          @capeman said in mame2003-plus: 250 new games, new input system, new features, new bugs:

                          @darksavior said in mame2003-plus: 250 new games, new input system, new features, new bugs:

                          The slowdown won't change. It's pretty much 60fps most of the time on my pi3b+ overclocked to 1.5ghz. mame2003/plus is the fastest way to play it too. FBA is much slower.

                          I don't overclock mine, the game runs slower than 60fps for sure on both mame2003 and plus, you can tell in the sound, it sounds like its constantly stuttering. Not talking about standard game slowdown from too many sprites on screen, just overall performance.

                          The pi is too slow. It's not the game's fault. You need to overclock to get rid of most of the slowdown. I only get slowdowns on my oc'd pi on the intro to the stages only. The rest of the game is mostly 60fps solid.

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                          • mediamogulM
                            mediamogul Global Moderator @Capeman
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                            @capeman

                            If you don't want to overclock for whatever reason, you can also get full frame rate during game play by using AdvanceMAME 3.x. It'll reduce the slowdown on the stage intros as well, but not eliminate it altogether.

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                              grant2258 Banned @mediamogul
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                              just put frameskip on if you dont want to overclock or use a more powerful box to run your emulation there is only so much a pie can do. A mini pc is what you need install linux and retropie on that

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                              • mediamogulM
                                mediamogul Global Moderator @grant2258
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                                @grant2258 said in mame2003-plus: 250 new games, new input system, new features, new bugs:

                                just put frameskip on if you dont want to overclock or use a more powerful box to run your emulation there is only so much a pie can do. A mini pc is what you need install linux and retropie on that

                                Frameskip has the major disadvantage of disrupting a player's timing. The Pi is indeed an under-powered computer, but RetroArch also adds a lot of overhead not found in standalone emulators. Many arcade games that are right on the edge of acceptable performance can be improved greatly by just picking a more appropriate emulator on a case-by-case basis. Fortunately, RetroPie makes that very easy.

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                                  grant2258 Banned @mediamogul
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                                  @mediamogul said in mame2003-plus: 250 new games, new input system, new features, new bugs:

                                  @grant2258 said in mame2003-plus: 250 new games, new input system, new features, new bugs:

                                  just put frameskip on if you dont want to overclock or use a more powerful box to run your emulation there is only so much a pie can do. A mini pc is what you need install linux and retropie on that

                                  Frameskip has the major disadvantage of disrupting a player's timing. The Pi is indeed an under-powered computer, but RetroArch also adds a lot of overhead not found in standalone emulators. Many arcade games that are right on the edge of acceptable performance can be improved greatly by just picking a more appropriate emulator on a case-by-case basis. Fortunately, RetroPie makes that very easy.

                                  Well its a balanced choice when you dont have enough processing power. The pi is good enough for most older stuff im not disputing that. Some users really dont know they can update there hardware and still use retropie. I personally use something else for my barcade that lets me use native emulators and have my retropie at the tv for the old consoles although I have these in my barcade as well.

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                                  • mediamogulM
                                    mediamogul Global Moderator @grant2258
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                                    @grant2258 said in mame2003-plus: 250 new games, new input system, new features, new bugs:

                                    I personally use something else for my barcade that lets me use native emulators and have my retropie at the tv for the old consoles although I have these in my barcade as well.

                                    Very nice. I have a similar setup myself. I use an older, but more powerful computer in my MAME cabinet and I use my Pi for console gaming and whatever arcade games I can squeeze out of it. Despite it's technical superiority, I don't really play or work on my cabinet very much. For whatever reason, I've just always found it more fun working and playing with the Pi.

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                                      grant2258 Banned @mediamogul
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                                      I have to admit I think retropie has a real strength that lot of other pi distros don't it supports native emulators as well. Going 100% ra locks users in that environment. I like tinkering and customizing it is nice to have options

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                                      • mediamogulM
                                        mediamogul Global Moderator @grant2258
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                                        @grant2258

                                        I definitely agree. RetroArch is a technical marvel with all it does and I use it in most instances, but the ability to explore other options that might suit certain use cases better is a real benefit.

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                                          gizmobjb
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                                          Quick question I have the moonwalker bootleg samples, so I just put them in the sample folder and thats it right. Sorry I know that's a stupid question.

                                          Also I got the ffight.zip of the ost samples but it missing a lot of files. Is there a complete set of the ffight samples?

                                          Thank you

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                                          • akafoxA
                                            akafox @mediamogul
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                                            @mediamogul well it has to be that way with mame a lot..but emulation in general.
                                            With updates comes breaks..that is they update it to fix or improve it and then they break something else. So you go to an older version that worked.

                                            I would prefer to use "native emulators" myself but RetroArch is updated frequently and a big community around it. They do have separate cores for some emulators which is nice. At first I was not using mame cores because I could not get into the dipswitch menu..that is a must for some games..but then it was fixed.

                                            On the other hand I have a system here that i have four versions of an arcade emulator on just to get things to work. I have standard mame..then I have FBA..then advmame 1.4..then Fast MAME..it's a single core 1.4ghz with 384 Mb of DDR ram and a 40Gb (IDE) HHD...so it's slow...but the different versions of mame allow me to run almost everything..yes even KI and MK at full speed.

                                            But back to topic...
                                            umm..I have a dumb question embarrassed
                                            so this core here what exactly is it? I have been watching it for sometime..and I gather it is a version of mame (core) to get games to play..or run better (in a nutshell) I do want to try it out..any value on it over the mame 2003 core over all?
                                            guess i need to break down and try it out huh? lol it is in the retroarch get hub page right?..or downloadable from the retroarch gui?

                                            People want things easy...but then complain that life is boring...

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