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   From: bel@whipassgaming.com   
      
   > LOL. You know what they say about problems, the solutions only cause   
   > new problems to arise :D   
      
   This is true...but at least the issues will be "faster". ;)   
      
   > I'm not finished yet, the instruction manual I bought like 2 years is   
   > in the worst shape of any of my 64 manuals. Unacceptable. Needs to be   
   > replaced ASAP.   
      
   I used to really hold the idea of "complete" and "mint" dear, but as   
   time went by I noticed that I just didn't really care if I had the box   
   and/or manual, and if they were in good shape or not. My main concern is   
   price. It's nice to have the box and manual, but honestly I put the box   
   and manual in the closet after reading them...and rarely every pull them   
   out again.   
      
   > $15 is actually a lot for a game in my opinion. I rarely ever spend   
   > that much on a game. You can get outdated systems for that much, much   
   > less outdated games.   
      
   Over the years my price point has dropped pretty steadily. Around the   
   Xbox days it was $40 tops, and that was that last console I owned. PC   
   games are around that, though if it's a special edition with a shitload   
   of extras(like Quake IV: SE, for example) I'll pay up to $60. Older   
   stuff is a little different, and definitely depends on the title. I paid   
   $100 for Rockman MegaWorld on the Genesis...but that's the most I've   
   ever spent on a game...usually it sticks somewhere in the $20 or lower   
   range for older systems.   
      
   > Braggart :)   
      
   Well, it was mostly just to let you know what kind of performance you   
   could expect with a machine around those specs. :)   
      
   > I have a theory that slow computers sometimes do a better job than   
   > fast ones at running the old games like Pac-Man and whatnot.  My   
   > theory is that fast computers cause MAME to have to slow down the   
   > emulation. And this leads to inconsistancies in the game speed   
   > compared to the actual speed of the arcade machine. My computer   
   > doesn't have that problem. He has to go all out to run just about   
   > everything.   
      
   This may have been true in older versions of MAME, but with stuff like   
   Speed Throttle, frameskipping, a proper video output card, etc. you can   
   get the games running *exactly* like they did in the arcade, even if you   
   have some bad-ass Xeon workstation(insanely powerful).   
      
   > I'm still compiling MAME; it takes hours. Said twenty to thirty   
   > minutes in the tutorial.   
      
   Probably depends on CPU speed, ram, Windows OS and hard drive spin.   
      
   > A guy at the flea market who sold me the SMS had something called a   
   > Game Station. It looked like an original ps2, but it had a cartridge   
   > thingy where the CD drive was. Apparently, this cartridge thingy had a   
   > million ps1 games built into it. He swore it was a Sony brand item,   
   > but I'm thinking it was a clone. It was PAL, so I told him it wouldn't   
   > work. He said the display was fine, but the controllers didn't work.   
      
   I've seen a lot of Genesis and Super NES clones that are built in   
   anything from Dreamcast to PS2, to N64 and even Xbox shells. Why they do   
   this, I don't know. He was definitely trying to scam you though. I   
   guarantee you that even though he was probably right about that cart   
   having a shitload of games on it(I'm thinking more along the lines of   
   200 to 500 roms), they were more likely to be NES or Atari roms than PSX   
   ISO files. ;)   
      
   Bel   
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