Overclocking to play MvC2, Soul Edge, Virtua Figther and more.

kimwandersson

@dankcushions @PetroRie I bet that's the problem. I want the arcade versions of the games. That's why I'm building an arcade cabinet, to get that arcade feeling.
I saw on youtube MvC2 running smoothly on a Dreamcast emulator. But that version looks horrible! Actually I don't really care that much about the 3D-based games, I just want MvC2 to work :)

Concat

Dreamcast emulator seems to run MvC2 quite well... FYI. I have only tested by playing one round, but it was fine.

Could be a good alternative for that specific game.

kimwandersson

@Concat Thanks, but I think it looks not as good on the Dreamcast. The idea of me building my arcade cabinet is that I want that arcade feeling and that comes a lot with the version of the games. It's usually a lot more spectacular and exciting, lots of blinking and different colors and shapes on the arcade versions. I guess it's because they are made to get your attention so you put in your hard earned coins in them and play :)

dankcushions

@kimwandersson the Dc version of mvc2 is arcade perfect. it uses the same chipset, effectively

RetroResolution

@kimwandersson

I've written some guides on overclocking and, most importantly, testing which you may wish to try so you'll have a quantifiable view of your machine's stability:

Overclocking and Stability Testing the Raspberry Pi

tjohnson

I've got a raspberry Pi 1 and use it to emulate 80s arcade games. Overclocked to 1000Mhz and with frameskip 2 it runs quite well but it is obvious that frameskip is being used because it has a slight stutter in scrolling. I'm building a cab and plan to use an older PC instead of my Pi. I've found it overclocks to 1000Mhz Turbo mode just fine and doesn't crash without any sort of supplementary cooling.

kimwandersson

@dankcushions Is that so?! Well, I'll have to try it out then. Thanks! :D

kimwandersson

@RetroResolution Wow! Thanks! I'll look into all these guides asap! :D

RetroResolution

@kimwandersson you're welcome, hope you find them useful

eg4190

said in Overclocking to play MvC2, Soul Edge, Virtua Figther and more.:

's a cut of at late 90's-games. 3D-based games don't work, some start up but are choppy in the graphics and sound. Like Tekken and Soul Edge. And a 2D game like Marvel vs Capcom 2 doesn't even start, which is sad because I really wanted to play that one ;)
I was thinking about overclocking my RPI, will that help? I've ordered some cooling sinks and a case with a fan. Could this let me play those games without any problems? And is there any danger with overclocking? Could I damage my RPI?

For my first full-sized arcade cabinet a few years back, I installed a way overpowered spare gaming rig. My goal was also 100% arcade perfect gameplay. I tried the arcade versions of all the games you listed, like Tekken and MvC2, and they all stuttered and had sound issues. So I accepted defeat and ran the console versions of those games. The problem is not hardware, it's just that the MAME emulation of these games (starting from roughly the late 90's on) has never been perfect. Most console emulators work at a higher level and don't try to reproduce all of the hardware in software the way MAME does, which is why the console emulators often offer much smoother gameplay.

Overclocking your RPI3 can't fix MAME's issues with these games, but it can lead to a broken RPI. Also consider that once you get to the early 3D era of gaming, the home consoles were generally more powerful than (or the same as) arcade hardware, whereas the opposite had been true for most of the past 20 years. So while there's a huge and noticeable difference between, say, the arcade and SNES versions of SF2, this isn't true of the Dreamcast vs. arcade VF3.