Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 418 from 2004/2/19
Tokai:
Beeing a total Emu Freak since years, I also did various tests with mame vs. specialized emulators on my Win PC. And the difference is sometimes realy amazing. In fact Mame is a somewhat bloated beast, not only for the exe size ( I never saw such a big exe on my Amiga or Peg before
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And it got slower and slower from release to release ( I still get headache when I remember the time i tried various ppc mame versions on my Cyberstorm PPC Amiga, when I did a part of the Emulator Review for Amigaplus)
On the other Hand you will never be able to play that much Arcade Games like it is possible with mame. And as you allready mentioned, even my Peg 1 is fast enough to play most of the games. But the point is, this is just possible with the work Fab did here, for example the overlay feature helped much to gain speed and still have higher resolutions.
Btw, this is even more true for Mess. If I remebmer correct, Fab told me once that he had to frameskip when it come to the Sega Genesis Emu, which worked even on my old A4k PPC without Frameskip using Generator.
To make the long short, my Experience is, specialised Emulators are allways faster then mass Emulators like Mame or Mess.