What's the build to run?

whitecomet

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I have a naomi cabinet which I wanted to originally put a mister fpga into until they went crazy :(

So apart from that what is the spec PC/build to have to put in there now...

I mainly will be playing Capcom and jamma games, also is there a recommend frontend to use?
 

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If you put in a pc from around 5 years ago and a half decent ati graphics card you can run everything from mame to m2/demul amd teknoparrot.. Here is an old video I did on the subject if interested that's still relevant:
 

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4th gen i5 and upwards will be fine for just mame, no gpu needed, mame performance is based on processor speed not gpu, I would recommend batocera, very simple to setup and use as all emulators are installed with the base image, just drop and drag games to the corresponding folders
 

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He is on a naoimi cab so the max resolution is 640x480. If using batocera edit the file boot/batocera-boot.conf to force a maximum resolution by editing the following line:
es.resolution=max-640x480

To be honest old 15k jamma games look bad stretched to 640x480. Best to at least try the "ati card" and install the emudriver software for the card and then groovymame. It will output a "super resolution" for your capcom fighters at 2560x448p.

The 2560 horizontal res means silky smooth perfect scrolling and the 448p vertical is exactly 2x the resolution of the original 15k monitors in jamma cabs. Once you turn on mame scanlines it looks *exactly* like an original jamma 15k monitor.
This is covered at the end of the video above.

If you don't have the time to learn about pc configuration and settings, possibly chunksins groovytime image would be good to look at. I just don't know if it supports 31k naomi monitors as I only tested it on the older jamma 15k ones:


Otherwise a mister could be an option.
 
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