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MAME for Power
tle:
--- Quote from: MauryG5 on June 22, 2022, 01:32:29 pm ---Well TLE, so now finally Fedora can finally use MAME too, good news I would say. As you know by now I have switched to Debian, so I don't care much about what happens on Fedora anymore, but I am equally pleased that more software is coming. Unfortunately the main problem of MAME on Power is the poor general optimization, I noticed that several games that on the X86 version are very good, I am talking about old stuff above all, I am not talking about recent things for heaven's sake, but old stuff that unfortunately runs slow on Power and unplayable. Really a shame, it would be nice to know how to optimize the code and make better use of the available hardware, it would be really very nice!
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That's expected. Lots of optimisation in many emulators are very architecture-specific. Everything needs time to build momentum, once PowerPC is more popular, those engineers behind MAME would be likely to further optimise it
MauryG5:
I hope so much then, it would be a good thing. But instead sorry, how should you do to keep it updated? I have version 0.220 that comes with Debian 11 and I have noticed that if you do not advance in the operating system version first, MAME never updates ... Are there any specific repositories to install? Thanks always.
markr87:
--- Quote from: ClassicHasClass on June 23, 2022, 01:51:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: markr87 on June 21, 2022, 09:54:29 pm ---Has anyone been able to get NFL Blitz to work? Just wondering if it is a no go or more than likely pebcak?
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Does it not start? What issue do you see?
I haven't thoroughly tested it (and my ROM set is for an older MAME, so it's possible I'll have some fallout migrating it from my G5 to the POWER9) but basic behaviour seems to be fine.
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To be more specific it is NFL Blitz '99. I am just wanting to see how our Power9's perform. It loads and gives me the normal cpu, sound, ect., press any key to continue display. I press a key and get a brief message about how there is no saved state as this would be the first time it has ran. The screen goes blank and that's all she wrote. I know it will take longer on the first run but I have let it sit for hours to no avail. Also of note Esc will not respond. Requires a reset to get out of it. My romset and chd files are of the same version as mame. I get the same behavior with the latter versions of the tekken series as well.
MauryG5:
Hi markr87, sorry but how does Tekken turn to you? I tried the old 2 and it already runs very slow and therefore lacks optimization, just as I said in the previous posts, how does it turn to you? I oh noticed the poor performance on both Tekken 2 and 3 and both Street Fighter 3 ... They all run very poorly compared to the X86 counterpart ...
markr87:
--- Quote from: MauryG5 on June 26, 2022, 12:51:53 pm ---Hi markr87, sorry but how does Tekken turn to you? I tried the old 2 and it already runs very slow and therefore lacks optimization, just as I said in the previous posts, how does it turn to you? I oh noticed the poor performance on both Tekken 2 and 3 and both Street Fighter 3 ... They all run very poorly compared to the X86 counterpart ...
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@MauryG5, I just tried Tekken 2 ver.B and can sadly report it is very slow, no sound and coin buttons not responding. I didn't spend any time trying to figure out sound and buttons. I compared it to a cheap i5 system I picked up to run an arcade cabinet I am building. The i5 runs it at normal speed.
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