ShmupMAME Lagless Edition

[dmauro]

A few months ago someone did extensive testing on the lag that MAME introduces to games (not based on hardware at all, entirely from the code of MAME). There are a lot of shmups that have an extra frame, or several extra frames of lag because MAME adds some sort of bugger. Someone found out that you could safely remove this buffer from several game drivers without a problem.

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30659

dhex, I know you like to play a little DonPachi on MAME somtimes, so you might want to check this out. MAME adds an extra frame or two of lag, which is quite a bit more than you might think, so this will feel much more responsive.

[dmauro]

I got this all rolled up and it is excellent. One credit with Guwange and I set a new high score and got to a level I had never even been to before. Battle Garegga is even a little more fair after losing a frame of lag. It's too bad Bakraid doesn't get fixed since that's what I've been into lately. It sounds like it's fixable though, so hopefully they'll get it fixed soon.

[dhex]

awesome.