Soul Calibre
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Anyone know if there is a soul calibre arcade time that the pi is able to play flawlessly (or close enough)? If so, which system, and which pi?
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Pi3 will run Soul Blade on PS1 with enhanced graphics. Pi4 will run Soul Calibur on Dreamcast wih enhanced graphics.
Arcade versions of both run slowly on a Pi4. A Pi4 will also run Gamecube Soul Calibur 2 very slowly.
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@George-Spiggott how are you running GC on arm?
Edit: let me rephrase... stop lying plz.
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@gomisensei said in Soul Calibre:
Edit: let me rephrase... stop lying plz.
Be nice - you can run Dolphin on a 64bit Gentoo or even Raspbian, on the Pi4 - see for instance this topic.
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Yep Gentoo and Dolphin setup. You can run PS2 Soul Calibur 2 and 3 on Arm (not Pi and also not fast) via Play.
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@mitu said in Soul Calibre:
@gomisensei said in Soul Calibre:
Edit: let me rephrase... stop lying plz.
Be nice - you can run Dolphin on a 64bit Gentoo or even Raspbian, on the Pi4 - see for instance this topic.
guess i shoulda stopped before the edit, and not exposed my ignorance... Though i wouldn't have gained the knowledge had i done so...
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@LouCoassin No, there is no emulator that will play namco system 12 fine on raspberry. Tbh it's probably a bad idea to play the arcade version of Soul Calibur anyway : the Dreamcast version is basically a remastered version of it.
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I installed Mame2016 on my OC Pi 4 today and gave Soul Calibre arcade a test. It runs without graphical errors at just over 30FPS. This would probably run fine on an OC Pi4 if Mame 2016 had a frameskip feature.
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@George-Spiggott I know the Dreamcast port of the game is superior, but I'd be curious to try the arcade original. How playable is it at 30 FPS?
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Borderline. It's almost there, sound is a bit patchy but the graphics are ok. It reminds me of the Amiga 500 version of Streetfighter II for speed.
I was also curious as well, it's not a patch on the Dreamcast version which runs upscaled to 1080p with frameskip set to 1.
I'll give Soul Edge and Tekken 3 a test later tonight both of those were borderline on Mame2010 so I'm expecting similar results.
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@George-Spiggott Now Soul Edge and Tekken 3 might be more interesting in that there isn't a much superior version already running well haha
I'd be very interested in knowing the results, please let us know.
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Tekken 3 should run ok on a PS1 emulator I would think?
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@RedMarsBlueMoon It does, we're talking about running the arcade versions on the pi 4.
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@Zering Tekken 3 worked ok with much the same issues as Soul Calibur. My copy of Soul Edge won't work properly, the controls do not respond. I'll check this isn't a mismatched ROMSET issue and report back.
Does anyone know if MAME2016 is an ongoing project?
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@George-Spiggott Thanks for the update, it's good to know.
Does anybody know why games like Soul Edge and Tekken 3 won't run full speed on a Pi 4? Is it because MAME is designed to cover a range of arcade machines rather than a dedicated emulator?
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@Zering said in Soul Calibre:
Is it because MAME is designed to cover a range of arcade machines rather than a dedicated emulator?
That's a nice way to put it, but yeah that's the gist of it : mame emulates thousands of different arcade machines, so it's mostly written for cross-platform compatibility and has very little support for dynarecs (which are specific for 1 arch and generally the best way to workaround slow devices).
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Mame2016 seems to not like several of my 2016 romset roms, even those that work fine on Mame2010. I also have 2016 roms for Soul Calibur 2 and Soul Calibur 3 but neither of them work at all. There is also an arcade rom for Tekken Tag Tournament that I need to find and try out.
So far apart from running Soul Calibur without graphical errors I haven't got much out of Mame2016.
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@George-Spiggott That's a bit of a shame. I was hoping that the Pi 4 would open up tons of games to run with MAME.
Sounds like I'll stick with my old rom pack then. -
@George-Spiggott said in Soul Calibre:
I was also curious as well, it's not a patch on the Dreamcast version which runs upscaled to 1080p with frameskip set to 1.
That's cool, I didn't realise redream had a frameskip option, does it help with a lot of games as I usually play redream at 720p, if I go higher than that I get a few slowdowns.
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@Zering There were a few games that needed a pi4 and Mame2010. Rad Mobile for example.
@retropieuser555 I'm using Flycast with the KMS driver.
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