Looking For Best MAME In Terms Of Input Latency (Pi 4)
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This is for an arcade-only project with games from Galaga up through about Street Fighter 2 Turbo. My main goal is the lowest input latency possible for fighting games like SF2T. Will be played on a TV via HDMI. Shader/overlay will likely be simple (i.e., just scanlines).
Thanks!
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@TonyXL if your priority is the lowest input latency, you should probably avoid MAME and use FBNeo instead, because it widely supports runahead. MAME2003+ have partial support too, other MAME cores don't support it at all iirc.
Without runahead, the difference between 2 arcade cores will be marginal with some edge cases, i believe FBNeo is known for having the upper hand too for some systems, i wouldn't be able to give you a list though. -
@barbudreadmon Thanks for the info, I'll give it a try. I did notice on the FBNeo page (https://github.com/finalburnneo/FBNeo/blob/master/README-PI.md) that it says, "The emulator runs very smoothly on Pi 1, 2 and 3. It runs on 4, but the performance isn't nearly as good." I guess we'll see...
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@TonyXL said in Looking For Best MAME In Terms Of Input Latency (Pi 4):
"The emulator runs very smoothly on Pi 1, 2 and 3. It runs on 4, but the performance isn't nearly as good." I guess we'll see...
That refers to the standalone emulator, not the libretro core. RetroPie includes the libretro core, which performs very well on a Pi4. If you want to use runahead to lower the input latency, you'd be using the libretro core anyway, since this is a RetroArch feature.
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@mitu I tried the runahead out and it was great! Thanks all!
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