LogicalEgo Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalEgo Posted September 27, 2017 Author Share Posted September 27, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roy1975 Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 I used to use MAME for everything but I do use FBA (Retroarch) for all the CPS games now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 I use mame for everything, weather that is a standalone or the retroarch core, which is pretty close these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalEgo Posted September 27, 2017 Author Share Posted September 27, 2017 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Yeah they keep it pretty much up to date now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charco Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 I use RA FBA for CPS1, CPS2, CPS3, and Neo Geo. MAME for the rest. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalEgo Posted September 28, 2017 Author Share Posted September 28, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charco Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mothergoose729 Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 (edited) Are there some games that FBA emulates better than MAME? Why use FBA at all? Genuinely curious. Edited September 29, 2017 by mothergoose729 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charco Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 Nope, it's up to you really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalEgo Posted September 30, 2017 Author Share Posted September 30, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
housello Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Mame for everything. More compatibility, more accurate emulation. I can't find a single reason to use fba on pc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wally Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItchyRobot Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 38 minutes ago, neil9000 said: Vector games work just fine in MAME. Same here. Looks great in MAME Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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