If you were going to build the ultimate fighting machine, what would you use?
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Really, I think I’m done messing with the pi in my fighting cabinet.
I now have a vertical screen cabinet so I think what I’m going to do is take my pi3 I’ve been using, put it in there and run strictly vert games with it. That leaves me with what to now build in my fighting cabinet.
Idk if I’m going to use retropie for this or not as a front end, it depends on what everyone recommends. This will strictly have arcade ports in it now exclusively fighting games based on a past thread with some pretty fantastic suggestions.
So how would you build this? I’m thinking PC at this point and since I have plenty of room in the cabinet I may put at least a mid tower in it.
So really I’m looking for some specific suggestions. I’m really wanting to run the Naomi emulator So I can run the real deal Naomi mvc2 arcade rom and not the Dreamcast port.
4;1: what hardware would you get?
2: what would be some of the “newest” fighting games you would try to run with this setup? How would you run them?
3: can you run official PC ports like for instance MK11 or UMVC3 with this PC and load them into the front end if I bought them on say, steam or something?
4: what would be your ideal emulators?
5: what front end would you use!Really, ultimately I would like to have a complete collection of new age fighters like mk10/11, injustice, umvc3, some harder to find end era games like mvc2, capcom vs snk2 running complete with arcade version Naomi emulation and your classic fighters mvc1, street fighter et. al. which can basically mainly run on mame2003 unless they can run on better emulators and I just don’t know it.
Help me spend money and get my wife mad at me again.
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Any Samurai Showdown game
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@tackett1980 said in If you were going to build the ultimate fighting machine, what would you use?:
4;1: what hardware would you get?
An Intel i5 based PC running Linux.
2: what would be some of the “newest” fighting games you would try to run with this setup? How would you run them?
Dunno, I don't play fighting games.
3: can you run official PC ports like for instance MK11 or UMVC3 with this PC and load them into the front end if I bought them on say, steam or something?
You'll probably need MS Windows for them, there little chance there are 'ports' for modern games to Linux. Maybe you mean 'ports' as in PS3/Xbox One ?
4: what would be your ideal emulators?
Depends on the game - with a few exception, each emulator basically covers only 1 system/console so there's no 1 emulator for all games.
5: what front end would you use!
Pegasus, LaunchBox (if Windows Windows), EmulationStation, Attract Mode.
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@mitu said in If you were going to build the ultimate fighting machine, what would you use?:
@tackett1980 said in If you were going to build the ultimate fighting machine, what would you use?:
4;1: what hardware would you get?
An Intel i5 based PC running Linux.
2: what would be some of the “newest” fighting games you would try to run with this setup? How would you run them?
Dunno, I don't play fighting games.
3: can you run official PC ports like for instance MK11 or UMVC3 with this PC and load them into the front end if I bought them on say, steam or something?
You'll probably need MS Windows for them, there little chance there are 'ports' for modern games to Linux. Maybe you mean 'ports' as in PS3/Xbox One ?
4: what would be your ideal emulators?
Depends on the game - with a few exception, each emulator basically covers only 1 system/console so there's no 1 emulator for all games.
5: what front end would you use!
Pegasus, LaunchBox (if Windows Windows), EmulationStation, Attract Mode.
Well, by port I mean a port of the arcade game to PC, I guess technically that’s not a port. And yeah I didn’t really think about Linux not running the games so I guess i would really just have to find a way to run whatever emulators I need along side the newer games either installed directly into windows or through something like steam then a way to conglomerate them all together into another front end or launcher so it’s pretty and consolidated.
So basically I would need
A pc
Windows
Games installed directly onto pc and windows operated
Emulators operated by windows to run the other games
A front end that can launch them all
Boot directly into this front end
PlayCan you do all that on windows?
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@tackett1980 said in If you were going to build the ultimate fighting machine, what would you use?:
Can you do all that on windows?
Why not ? I think both Pegasus and LaunchBox(BigBox) can integrate with arbitrary games (i.e. for non-Steam ports) and the Steam library.
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Well, I think I may give this a try.
Now it’s time to decide if I want to buy this Naomi board or not....
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@tackett1980 I think that will cost more than a few 'berries or the PC build you're tackling :).
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Yeah I think so.
I found a guy selling a naomi board, mvc2 cart, and an I/o board for 375
Should I buy it or is the Naomi emulation with decent hardware like we’ve been discussing just as good?
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@tackett1980 i think you're asking a very specific naomi question to probably the wrong community. i would ask in a general emulation community on reddit or somewhere like that.
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@tackett1980 I'm doing this as well. At least, I'm getting all the hardware together to upgrade my arcade machine from a Pi3 to a PC system. I am probably going to put a KVM switch in it so that I can still play with the Pi as well as run the PC with just a flip of a switch.
Hardware I've got ready:
i7-6700, 12GB RAM and GTX970
Still need to get a PSU and SSD. And find some spare time.
This should be able to run all modern fighting games in MK11 and SF5. Maybe not on the highest settings, but who cares.As for the front end, I will probably use either EmulationStation or BigBox.
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I use RetroFE on Windows 7 SP1 on my bartop cabinet multi 2-player I built and just about to add a trackball this weekend for trackball games I want, with 8GB memory and a Geforce 1080ti (very low power requirements and draws from the motherboard with NO external power needed), but on my main PC I still have a Geforce GTX460 and it still runs everything the bartop does as I use that as a tester before copying the RetroFE files to a portable USB for running RetroFE from on the bartop for portability and easy updating or adding new systems as I when
I started off with RetroPie on a PI 3B but wanted pinball, so had to go the PC route and run Future Pinball and Visual Pinball with ease on both systems
If you want arcade fighting games, have a look at Teknoparrot that enables you to rub arcade dumps on a PC rather than emulated versions via MAME
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I’ve been looking at this teknoparrot but the compatibility list they have on the website looks pretty terrible. Am I missing something here?
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Nice!
So I guess the master plan here would be to get
A pc
Windows
Mame
Final burn
Steam
Naomi emulation
Front endGame suggestions are all here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/24699/the-best-fighting-game/21
Plus my white wale of mvc2 arcade emulation.
Got any PC suggestions for this, or even links If you or other readers have the time to post them.
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Personal Opinion Here! The Raspberry Pi4 4gb of ram is the best way to go! it plays all but one psp game at 100% FPS! so Rpi4 with a fresh install of retropie!
edit unless you need steam then please ignore this comment*
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The pi4 can run Naomi arcade emulation at 100%? I find that difficult to comprehend.
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@tackett1980 from my knowledge it can, the device has 4gb of ram if it can run god of war at 30fps it should run a majority of naomi games at 30 or 60fps depending on its cap
I found this online not sure if it helps but it shows some gameplay
P.S 100% in my eyes is 90 or above should have ut "at least 90" -
Great googley moogely and it runs at 60fps? That’s nuts.
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