Will

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how about octal? Don't see that much either. Good ole 0200000

Why trash them?? 1.Confiscate illegal games 2.Rip out boards 2.Sell cabinet to junkie gamers for half price 3.Profit!

Most of the Core 2 Duo's are REALLY good overclockers. With a little research on your motherboard you could probably get a huge speed increase without even switching from air cooling. I'd get a good $30-50 CPU fan for it though. I have seen articles showing a 2 GHz increase on many of them. If you could get it to even 2.75 or 3.00 GHz you'd be flying. It might or might not make a difference in KI2, but at least down the road you'll know you have a ton of extra performance to tap if needed. Also, you could try some other avenues as well....I use an Althon 64 3400+ and it works pretty well for me. I guess it does stutter a little, but I never really found it too distracting. Just me though

What rom is it running? Looks like that screen has some burn-in. Does it not have a joystick? Pretty cool though! It'll be a great MAME cabinet if the hardware isn't salvageable.

Are we to assume you can run the roms from the command line outside of GameEx without issue?

sorry! Be sure and read some reviews first, though. I don't know anything about that particular one except the price.

You can run a Surface Scan in Windows. If you right click on the drive in Explorer you can run diagnostics on it. Choose to do a full surface scan and it will look for bad spots. Also you can use a program like Sandra Standard to check the diagnostic codes in the firmware of the drive. They should give you a decent idea of the drive's health. And just so you know.... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822136077 Hope that doesn't make you too sick

I use an IPAC and NOD32 without problem. My IPAC works FLAWLESSLY. Being an unprotected circuit board probably isn't a safe job.

Anyone who spends time with the software and our community will quickly see that "extra features" isn't necessarily what you are registering for. I am not sure I use any of the extra features--I don't even know what they are. The value for me was knowing that I was keeping features coming and keeping Tom financially able to keep working on it. If you can afford a computer, you can afford $20 or so to register. So my bottom line is: I didn't register for features, I registered out of respect. That probably doesn't even answer your question, but that's my answer

This usually has to do with your command line options being a problem. Spaces in your path can be a pain. Post your log, and Project 64 GameEx config settings.

alright! I love that external apps have all the same options now too. Thanks Tom!

Update is on the main menu. Looks to me like you just have a bad MAME32 command line. Try your command outside of GameEx (from in the GameEx program directory), get that working, then add it to GameEx.

Yeah I was busy tonight and missed The 4400. I'll have to watch it tomorrow!

Wow. Doesn't take much to offend you. bkenobi said he didn't think Pong was that much fun either, but you didn't roll your eyes at him. No, I don't think, except for nostalgia purposes, that Pong is that fun. Yes, that is opinion. There are lots of opinions on here, and the ones I don't agree with don't ruin my day. Lighten up! And regarding my "elaborate" 3 line explanation: I apologize for answering your question! My bad! It will never happen again! Yeah Ben, PlasmaPong is pretty sweet. The increasing beat music is a nice touch. Will

Nice choice on the power supply. I think the main complaint of the modular route is that the extra connection isn't good for efficiency. Good luck with the build. Sounds like you're gonna have a sweet toy!

Core 2 duo is overkill for most emulation. I use an Athlon 64 3500+ without a single hiccup on anything. For a HTPC though it is perfect. I haven't kept up with the models too much since I bought my laptop (C2D 2.00 Ghz) but read reviews to find out which model is most overclockable. You might not care now, but when performance starts to seem less impressive you can jack it up a few Ghz and stave off an upgrade for a while. Quad core (unless daddy's paying) is not worth it. For a server, YES. For personal computers, only in benchmarks. You'll get better performance increases spending extra money on better RAM, harddrives, etc, rather than a two more cores. One day this will change, but for the next few years... If it's going to be on 24/7 look into a power efficient power supply with active PFC and an efficiency rating of 80%+. Also, if you are going for a traditional case take a look at the Antec Nine Hundred Gaming case. It has MASSIVE cooling for when you do the overclocking, and looks good too. It is also pretty quiet on the low settings. It has a 200mm fan and three 120mm ones. Jeez. Also, be sure to buy a motherboard with more than 2 SATA connectors

I can't imagine most people spending more than about 30 seconds playing pong to impress their friends with nostalgia. It's kinda boring. As to the reason it isn't supported by MAME, like bkenobi said it wasn't being 100% accurately emulated. MAME's mission statement is to document and accurately emulate arcade hardware. Therefore, 90% isn't good enough. This is the reason some games experience slow down...if the original hardware couldn't handle the game and chugged along occasionally, well MAME will too--intentionally.

The problem I always have with it is that by the time the media becomes mass produced and the price gets sane, another technology is on the near horizon and other technologies have caught up. When blank CDs got dirt cheap, here came DVDs. When DVDs became dirt cheap, here comes HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. The whole time though, HDDs were cheaper and faster.

Right. And you get 80-90MB/s and rewritable. Try that, Blu-Ray. For storage purposes, optical technology has been eclipsed. Of course for content delivery (PS3) Blu-Ray may have some uses.

I have seen them for $399 here in the US at newegg.com. You are better off going with a 750gig drive though right now. The price per gigabyte is much less. Now that Seagate, Hitachi, and Western Digital all have 1TB models there will be some price competition, but the prices won't drop for a few months probably. 750gig @ $219 = $0.29/gig 1000gig @ $399 = $0.39/gig That's almost a 25% premium. Ouch.

wow. I guess I am lucky that mine works then. Yay me

Nope. I have never had it screw up. Maybe it's my cmd /c option.

Let me be the first to say thank you!

Yep, he's right. Just run the program with the profile you want to load. In WinIPAC you can create custom profiles. Anyone who has an IPAC, this is the way to go! In each emulator you can disable buttons you don't need so that a wrong button press doesn't do unexpected things. For my setup I have created batch files with the commands. I place all these in a central location so they are easier to manage. Also, instead of just placing "winipac.exe profile.whatever" in the command line, try using "cmd /c winipac.exe profile.whatever". Check the help for the cmd command to make sure I did that right. This tells Window's shell to run the command in another shell and don't wait for it to complete before returning control to GameEx. This should allow faster loading since GameEx won't wait for each profile load to complete before starting to load or unload your game. Works for me anyway. Will