FBA or Mame

[LogicalEgo]

Just curious what everyone's preference is when emulating certain Arcade games and why. I went the FBA route a long time ago because the list of games I wanted to play was pretty much covered and the rom set wasn't bloated like Mames.

[Lordmonkus]

I pretty much use stand alone Mame for the vast majority of stuff but I do use the FBA Retroarch core for NeoGeo and some of the Capcom CPS stuff depending on my mood.

The reason I use stand alone Mame for most stuff is the HLSL shaders, they simply work better with vertical games than Retroarchs shaders.

[LogicalEgo]

4 minutes ago, lordmonkus said:

I pretty much use stand alone Mame for the vast majority of stuff but I do use the FBA Retroarch core for NeoGeo and some of the Capcom CPS stuff depending on my mood.

The reason I use stand alone Mame for most stuff is the HLSL shaders, they simply work better with vertical games than Retroarchs shaders.

Agree'd on the HLSL shaders. I have been debating on rebuilding my Arcade set up. I could pull my vertical shumps from mame and use the stand alone just for it, or go full mame. I would leave Neo Geo alone since its perfect as is (to me anyways) on the RA core.

[roy1975]

I used to use MAME for everything but I do use FBA (Retroarch) for all the CPS games now.

[neil9000]

I use mame for everything, weather that is a standalone or the retroarch core, which is pretty close these days.

[LogicalEgo]

As I understand it the Mame core in RA is always the latest stand alone number correct?

https://wiki.libretro.com/index.php?title=MAME

[Lordmonkus]

Yeah they keep it pretty much up to date now.

[Charco]

I use RA FBA for CPS1, CPS2, CPS3, and Neo Geo. MAME for the rest.

[LogicalEgo]

16 hours ago, Charco said:

I use RA FBA for CPS1, CPS2, CPS3, and Neo Geo. MAME for the rest.

Pretty much what I am setting up now instead of it being a complete mixed bag.

[Charco]

MAME would be great for all of them really, it's just a legacy issue from me having all these roms and running them on FBA on my Wii and just moving them over when I got LaunchBox. I do like the ease of setting up per game configs for my fighting games in RA and I prefer the RA shaders, so there's that.

[mothergoose729]

Are there some games that FBA emulates better than MAME? Why use FBA at all?

 

Genuinely curious. 

Edited September 29, 2017 by mothergoose729

[Charco]

Nope, it's up to you really.

[LogicalEgo]

10 hours ago, mothergoose729 said:

Are there some games that FBA emulates better than MAME? Why use FBA at all?

 

Genuinely curious. 

FBA is much easier to find a rom set for, in my experience. It has way less of the bloat Mame does but has lots of missing games I wanted. I started out with a FBA set and filled in what I wanted with Mame. Now I am deciding if I want to completely rebuild my whole set around Mame instead of FBA with the exception being the CSP games and Neo Geo.

[housello]

Mame for everything. More compatibility, more accurate emulation. I can't find a single reason to use fba on pc.

[Wally]

MAME is a no go for vector games.

FBNeo displays them in larger resolutions. Adding a good shader combo, you can achive an excelent result

[neil9000]

15 minutes ago, Wally said:

MAME is a no go for vector games.

FBNeo displays them in larger resolutions. Adding a good shader combo, you can achive an excelent result

Vector games work just fine in MAME.

[ItchyRobot]

38 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

Vector games work just fine in MAME.

Same here. Looks great in MAME