Gauntlet Legends - Emumovies

[NemX2]

I just updated my ingame movie previews and noticed that the Mame version of Gauntlet Legends runs at playable speed in the emumovies avi. It was my understanding that 3dfx titles are unplayable (low fps). Anyone have an idea how they managed to get a clean video capture of the ingame play?

Thanks!

[Adultery]

I thought if you had an insanely fast machine, the proper CHD files and disabled all the sound from it you could play it for a short while before it crashes...

[Will]

The problem with these games is not that they require much computational power (they're old games and crappy tech compared to the latest PC games), but rather that in order to properly emulate the hardware you have to do many MAME instructions for each actual game instruction of the emulated game since most of the games are designed for RISC processors but run on CISC processors. It's like someone asking you to read a foreign language at full speed when you are having to look up and translate every other word. The only answers are to be able to look words up REALLY quickly (10 Ghz PC) or to get someone who speaks the language natively (the processor it was designed for). In the case of MAME, their goal is to emulate the game 100% perfectly which means translating it all. There are, however, patches that change some of the MAME code to be more "native", but means it isn't emulating the hardware perfectly anymore. So, official MAME versions won't play it, but some people have patched versions that cheat a little for playability.

[lingpanda]

The problem with these games is not that they require much computational power (they're old games and crappy tech compared to the latest PC games), but rather that in order to properly emulate the hardware you have to do many MAME instructions for each actual game instruction of the emulated game since most of the games are designed for RISC processors but run on CISC processors. It's like someone asking you to read a foreign language at full speed when you are having to look up and translate every other word. The only answers are to be able to look words up REALLY quickly (10 Ghz PC) or to get someone who speaks the language natively (the processor it was designed for). In the case of MAME, their goal is to emulate the game 100% perfectly which means translating it all. There are, however, patches that change some of the MAME code to be more "native", but means it isn't emulating the hardware perfectly anymore. So, official MAME versions won't play it, but some people have patched versions that cheat a little for playability.

Do you know where to get these enhanced versions?

[Will]

nope, I just heard about em....having almost 10,000 games on my arcade machine I figured it isn't worth it trying so hard to get one specific game working. If you have any luck let me know just for curiosity's sake.

[NIVO]

it took alot of trial and error and configuring best compression and what not to get these produced. cdbrown and myself worked hard on this and it took some time. We are currently waiting on solutions and fixes behind the scene before these will get updated even further. If everything works out we hope to get more out, but there is no date/time schedule and they take a LONG time to produce. Game On.