MAME input delay / lag....

[Hypersport]

Buy a J-Pac and you should fix any lag.

Looks promising except: "No special drivers needed. USB drivers are generic Windows."

But it claims to process each input seperately:
"All inputs are completely separate and generate their own interrupt - this is the fastest possible method."

So the hardware looks capable, but I worry about the "generic Windows driver" part. If USB drivers in Windows are a problem, then this might not do it.

I looked at the one on Ultimarc -- I might give this a try. The price doesn't look too bad if it will fix the problem.

 

[armi0024]

Sorry old thread, but I couldn't let it go with the comments on the Lono, missed those before.

First off, the Lono is more than 4 times faster than the fastest advertised rate on the market (the fastest we could find is 125 state changes a second, the Lono blows this away)

Lono integrates into windows as a standard microsoft arcade controller, no special drivers are needed.

Finally cost... It is true that the Lono is $65 dollars, but that is for a four player board, with complete harnessing. If you take any other vendors high quality controller and compare it for a 4 player set up, the Lono is cheaper. If you do the cost per input, we are closer to the costs of Xin-mo boards which are a step back in performance and quality.(We do sell the Xin-mo for 25-30 per 2 player set up also)

I can assure anyone interested, that you will save a significant amount of installation time with the Lono.

The only problem is that we are out temporarily of stock....but in a week a new surprise will hopefully be taking it's place!

 

[Casey120]

There's a Lagless Mame or shmup Mame for some time now that makes games like Battle Garegga or Batrider actually playable on Mame :

http://shmupmame.wordpress.com/

 

[EagleTG]

My MAME lag issues almost always surrounded the video settings. Changing them to settings that weren't as aggressive or didn't seem as logical actually helped in a few circumstances.