Topic: Ram Doubler For Appz (mame And Others) (Read 94 times)

cyrusuncc · « **on:** August 27, 2002, 12:37:00 PM »

the program could be written to not fully load the games into memory... but i don't know how the roms would react...

opjose · « **Reply #1 on:** September 05, 2002, 05:55:00 AM »

QUOTE (cyrusuncc @ Aug 27 2002, 06:37 PM)

the program could be written to not fully load the games into memory... but i don't know how the roms would react...

Will not work.

Mame is not a single emulator, it is a collection of emulators running at the same time.

Each emulator has a set of RAM resident ROMs loaded and required to be present.

In turn each emulator must talk to the other. For instance, you'll have at least two sound emulators running each with their own different roms.

As it is, timing is crucial to get any sort of decent performance, and the emulators are all written by hand, in assembly.

Don't look at Mame like a standard PC program which can swap out unused modules. Rather it's more like a collection of virtual machines that need to intercommunicate to all work.

EvoTek · « **Reply #2 on:** September 08, 2002, 10:49:00 PM »

Yah thats not funny...

whuts funny is the ppl considering that the Xbox has enough ram to run higher end games Such as KOF 2001 or Metal Slug 4...

utopia_ii · « **Reply #3 on:** September 11, 2002, 06:32:00 AM »

YoDa
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opjose · « **Reply #4 on:** September 11, 2002, 08:23:00 AM »

QUOTE (utopia_ii @ Sep 11 2002, 12:32 PM)

why not create a virtual ram drive from the xbox hardrive...then use that as memory for the roms.

Just a thought.

YoDa
"back from the brink of life"

No, No, No, No, No, No, No.

Will not work.

Look at the Mame CODE and you'll see why.

Amazing work that it is...

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