testing games on mame ruin it for you?

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Ok I know a lot of you guys love mame, but here's something I find happens to me and I want to know if others too. I find if I check a game out on mame before the pcb arrives it just totally ruins it for me. example: I have a MKII pcb on the way,and today I downloaded it on mame just to fool around with it and it just looked so horrible I almost lost all interest lol

I am die hard arcade hardware, and for me nothing compares to owning the pcb, and playing it on a cab and real RGB monitor. I do also have a supergun to play pcbs since they can't all fit in my 2 cabs I have and the wife won't let me buy every cab I want, but even the JROK RGB encoders looks so much better than mame on my pc.
 
I use MAME to help me rember games. Also good for testing to make sure a PCB is working correctly when I get it.
 
I hate mame because the controls have a delay to them and some games play faster or slower than they should . Like Galaxian is too fast and feels nothing like playing real game .
 
Have noticed that the speed of many games is a bit off. Its usually faster in MAME, making the games more difficult than the originals. Not difference is subtle, and you might not notice if you don't play the original/MAME versions within a pretty short span of time.

I never noticed any input lag.

The thing I love about MAME is that if I see a game for sale, or even if someone is talking about a game I'm not familiar with, I can fire it up and at least get a feel for it.
I'll never part with my horizontal and vert MAME cabs. They are close enough to the real experience to be lots of fun.
 
I fucking hate mame. Mortal Kombat 2 in mame looks like crap on a computer monitor, but it looks miles better in an arcade machine (with actual hardware). I know, I know, it sounds like I'm making it up, but it just looks and feels better.

I did use Neo Rage X for a while to get my colors on my neo geo cab looking spot on, but I only used it as a supplement. Nothing ever beats the real thing.
 
The thing I love about MAME is that if I see a game for sale, or even if someone is talking about a game I'm not familiar with, I can fire it up and at least get a feel for it.
I'll never part with my horizontal and vert MAME cabs. They are close enough to the real experience to be lots of fun.

Exactly. Some games (like Spyhunter and Wild Western) are unplayable with the standard MAME setup, but there's 10 unknowns for every game I do know.

I have discovered many games I never got to play in the arcade, and others that came out after I stopped going to them in the mid/late 80s.
 
Ok I know a lot of you guys love mame, but here's something I find happens to me and I want to know if others too. I find if I check a game out on mame before the pcb arrives it just totally ruins it for me. example: I have a MKII pcb on the way,and today I downloaded it on mame just to fool around with it and it just looked so horrible I almost lost all interest lol

I am die hard arcade hardware, and for me nothing compares to owning the pcb, and playing it on a cab and real RGB monitor. I do also have a supergun to play pcbs since they can't all fit in my 2 cabs I have and the wife won't let me buy every cab I want, but even the JROK RGB encoders looks so much better than mame on my pc.

I am not sure why you blame MAME for the fact that a low resolution game doesn't look right on a high resolution monitor. I have not noticed the input lag either. I have played Donkey Kong on the dedicated cab and the MAME cab back to back, and there was no difference in timing.

The only differences I usually notice are sounds. Sometimes MAME is not accurate, but most of the time, I think it is due to the fact that I have a sub in the MAME cab. If MAME actually accomplishes its goal of perfect emulation, then you would need the original monitor, speakers, and controls for it to feel right.
 
The only differences I usually notice are sounds. Sometimes MAME is not accurate, but most of the time, I think it is due to the fact that I have a sub in the MAME cab. If MAME actually accomplishes its goal of perfect emulation, then you would need the original monitor, speakers, and controls for it to feel right.

I think it totally depends on the computer speed that's running the emulator, and the vintage of the game. Most of my favorite games are from the pre-JAMMA era, and MAME is good for many of them.
 
In most cases the graphics in mame will not be as good as real hardware.

Totally depends on the monitor. You can use any arcade monitor you want and have the video card put out the proper frequency. You can even use a video card made to do it (ArcadeVGA) if you don't want to mess around with the apps that do it.

Most of the MAME hate in here sounds like its from people that don't really understand it.
 
I love my mame cabinet.
It allows us to play stuff I don't have, as well as try a game out before buying if I haven't played it to see if I'll like it.
 
I've been involved in the mame scene since some of its very earliest releases. I find it a great resource for researching games and for gaining a lot of insight into the classics. I've found quite a few new favorites that I have bought cabs for solely because I played them in mame.
 
Who plays MAME on a high res monitor? Sheesh... That is what dedicated MAME cabs are for (with real standard res monitors, authentic arcade controls, etc.)
 
People don't bother to set it up correctly... even those who do manage to get it running on a standard res monitor rarely take the time to make sure the games are running in their proper resolution.

Bottom line is that laziness is no reason to hate on MAME. Sure, any Joe can load up MAME and run it on a PC using a PC monitor and the keyboard for controls. There is a huge difference between that and a dialed in MAME cab.
 
Mame = Interactive Encyclopedia of Arcade Games. What better way is there to research a game of interest. I consider it a must have for all collectors. Of course it doesn't cover every game ever made but it covers plenty.
 
The only differences I usually notice are sounds. Sometimes MAME is not accurate, but most of the time, I think it is due to the fact that I have a sub in the MAME cab. If MAME actually accomplishes its goal of perfect emulation, then you would need the original monitor, speakers, and controls for it to feel right.

It's not just your speakers with the older games. It's the fact that they use analog sound hardware. On MAME all the sounds are digital. It's very difficult, if not impossible, to faithfully reproduce the analog sounds. You're almost always going to end up with "close enough".
 
I agree with MAME being a good way to check out a game.

It's never as good as a dedicated cabinet, for various reasons.

My personal opinion on it is that I don't see the point in putting MAME in a standup cabinet. No matter how much you do to make it like the original, its always going to be half way there (i.e. not authentic.) I'm not going to put much effort into getting half way there. The most I can justify doing is getting a arcade joystick and hooking up to my computer. I would imagine that your average person feels the opposite though.
 
I agree with MAME being a good way to check out a game.

It's never as good as a dedicated cabinet, for various reasons.

My personal opinion on it is that I don't see the point in putting MAME in a standup cabinet. No matter how much you do to make it like the original, its always going to be half way there (i.e. not authentic.) I'm not going to put much effort into getting half way there. The most I can justify doing is getting a arcade joystick and hooking up to my computer. I would imagine that your average person feels the opposite though.


I'll bet you a hundred bucks if I put two Ms. Pacs next to each other... one running authentic hardware one running MAME... you wouldn't know the difference without looking inside the box.

That could be said for hundreds of different games.

Half way there... ha.

BTW - MAME doesn't "simulate" the sounds... nor does it "emulate" the sounds... it emulates the hardware that makes the sounds. If a sound is incorrect, it's because it's not been emulated in hardware properly. A good number of games are 100% emulated... sound, video, etc... you couldn't tell the difference.
 
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