> I don't want to discourage you from dumping games but unless there is some policy > change in MAME for newer PC game to make them just use the CPU in people's PC on them > directly like running a regular PC game instead of emulating the original game's CPU > like every current game in MAME is done then this will never run in MAME in our > lifetime. A "powerful" system in MAME is Naomi, it ran at 200 Mhz originally and is > dog slow on high end computers in emulation. That P4 system was probably ~2.5 Ghz.
While I doubt that using the host CPU natively will ever happen in MAME (and don't really think it should, in any case) if the dumps is available to emu dev types one may decide to write something else that does use the host CPU - you never know...