This has everything to do with the file system, and little to do with the hardware. Indeed, but that's in the minority and in line with the original machine being emulated. Pedantic readers will point out that some cores still need to be shut down, such as the Mac Plus core. (whereas RPis need to be shut down to prevent SD corruption). No point dismissing any of these options. After all, it's just software, and you can do whatever you want.Īgain, endless choices here. But there's also nothing stopping you running both side by side on the same machine. But a 2006 MAME build is missing 15 years of fixes, and thousands of new games and dumps.

So yes, older releases can be faster for plenty of titles. (Also playable on MiSTer of course, although MAME offers emulated CPU overclocking to reduce showdown in games like Metal Slug). From 3 onwards it was fine, even on very recent builds that again have plenty of fixes not in MAME 0.106 nor FBA. Neo Geo used to be totally unplayable on older Pi model 1 and 2 hardware. If you don't care about accuracy and just want to play, then that's fine too. FBA will play Street Fighter III, which still won't play in MAME even on an overclocked RPi4, but the emulation accuracy is low. You can go even less accurate from here, and choose emulators like Final Burn Alpha, if you want. That goes a long way to compensating for the slower performance of more modern MAME releases, and allows you to play far more accurate builds at the same time. Of the 650 games I tested, there is a 139% increase in games that become playable moving from an RPi3 to an RPi4. My testing shows that, clock for clock, an RPi4 is nearly twice the performance of an RPi3, and is also clocked higher so the improvements scale up from there. But conversely, hardware speeds up as time goes on.

MAME slows down each release because of these accuracy improvements. MAME developer 'Haze' demonstrated this in a recent YouTube video. MAME 0.106 won't have that fix, nor the thousands of other fixes between then and now. Older versions of MAME are faster, but are far less accurate.įor example, there was a major bug discovered in Contra only recently, and a fix supplied by Furrtek. Your only testing with a single newer version. Do the same test with mame 0.106, and my statement will hold true.

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