Mortal Kombat on Mame?

[ekianjo]

Hello everyone,


I just tried Mortal Kombat on FBA and PanMame last night and I was surprised how sluggish it was. Is there a clear reason for that?


Would it work better on other MAME versions?

 

[craigix]

I certainly played it without issue on MAME a long time ago.

 

[ekianjo]

try Mame4All at 800mhz

Does that mean that MAME support varies depending on the version ? (in terms of speed?)


On PanMAME it was just like a slideshow at 800 Mhz...

 

[CAZMIESTER]

try Mame4All at 800mhz

Does that mean that MAME support varies depending on the version ? (in terms of speed?)


On PanMAME it was just like a slideshow at 800 Mhz...

does mame4all not run it?

 

[mcobit]

Yes, its basically speed vs compatibility/accurate emulation in MAME. Older versions favour speed, but they can't play as much games.

 

[ekianjo]

try Mame4All at 800mhz

Does that mean that MAME support varies depending on the version ? (in terms of speed?)


On PanMAME it was just like a slideshow at 800 Mhz...

does mame4all not run it?

I did not try with mame4all yet. Let me try later today.


This kind of info would be great to have on the wiki as well At least for major games.

 

[mcobit]

Add it

 

[CAZMIESTER]

Yes, its basically speed vs compatibility/accurate emulation in MAME. Older versions favour speed, but they can't play as much games.

Thats how tegra3 is going to change all that most games run fullspeed on my transformer prime inc sh2 and 68ec020 based psx based and a shed load of others everthing so far runs full or 80 90% cant wait for the wikipad could be a game changer for me then hopefully mobile mame will be totally possible.

 

[ekianjo]

Yes, its basically speed vs compatibility/accurate emulation in MAME. Older versions favour speed, but they can't play as much games.

Thats how tegra3 is going to change all that most games run fullspeed on my transformer prime inc sh2 and 68ec020 based psx based and a shed load of others everthing so far runs full or 80 90% cant wait for the wikipad could be a game changer for me then hopefully mobile mame will be totally possible.

Apparently the Wikipad is based on Android... far from being my ideal system. I have no love for these touch interfaces - those are going completely backward in terms of usability. Having no keyboard is not very good for emulation either, for most of the computer games....

Add it

Any idea where I should add this info ? Ideally a new page is the best place for this. Is anyone willing to help to gather information ? (thats the point of a wiki, after all : collaboration).

 

[mcobit]

There should be sites for the different mame versions already.

 

[ekianjo]

There should be sites for the different mame versions already.

Sure, but let's make this info Pandora specific. For example - how games run at 500 Mhz, at 800Mhz, and 1Ghz once the new Pandora is available. Knowing how well a game run on x86 architecture is of no-use for us.

 

[commander-beef]

On MAME EX, MK works. Its far from fullspeed, but i played it a lot on MAME EX recently. *Guilty pleasure*

 

[ekianjo]

On MAME EX, MK works. Its far from fullspeed, but i played it a lot on MAME EX recently. *Guilty pleasure*

Thanks for reporting - so it seems that there is no way for it to run fullspeed on current Mame version, basically ?

 

[commander-beef]

On MAME EX, MK works. Its far from fullspeed, but i played it a lot on MAME EX recently. *Guilty pleasure*

Thanks for reporting - so it seems that there is no way for it to run fullspeed on current Mame version, basically ?

nope :/


but hey.. test MK on SEGA CD [best version so far apart from arcade ] and MK2 on GENESIS or PSX [best version so far apart from arcade]


btw. check y'r email, ekianjo

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[ekianjo]

thanks for the recommendation. Id prefer to get the arcade versions if possible as tge sprites are so much bigger and colorful than the versions you mentioned. I remember MK2 in arcades and it was really not the same on home consoles

 

[commander-beef]

midway games drivers for mame are known for lack of optimisation [MK / Terminator Arcade / Revolution X], so even if somebody run it on OC Panda on 1500Mhz , it will not be fullspeed. Im getting Revolution X fullspeed on 1,7ghz system

 

[ekianjo]

Thats a shame. By the way what kind of hardware they used at the time for MK?

 

[craigix]

It works at full speed on an old version of MAME.


I'm not sure why people are saying to overclock to 1500mhz?


I'm pretty sure you can run it on the Wiz at full speed too...

 

[commander-beef]

Thats a shame. By the way what kind of hardware they used at the time for MK?

T-Unit @ 6.25 MHz [MK/MK2/NBA]


Y-Unit @ 6.25 MHz [MK]


X-Unit @ @ 10 MHz [Revolution X]

 

[commander-beef]

I'm not sure why people are saying to overclock to 1500mhz?

Its hypothetical OC only

I'm pretty sure you can run it on the Wiz at full speed too...

I never managed M4A to work with any proper rev of MK. There was always something that prevents MK from working on M4A [mainly a lot of glitches]