> > On some 3D driving games for MAME (Crusin USA for example) the emulation on PC
> seems
> > to outperform the original hardware.
> >
> > How easy would it be to increase the draw distance to eliminate polygon popping for
> > games like this?
>
> To be clear, that would require modifying the actual code of the game. It's not
> something we can force on it from MAME. Secondly, the draw distance is usually baked
> pretty deeply into the engine on polygonal racers and isn't a trivial adjustment.
> Among other things, you then have to run collision detection further out so the
> required CPU time increases at a pretty rapid clip.
>
> I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's nowhere near easy either. Plus, Crusin' runs
> on a pretty unusual processor so not many people could even do it.
Well that is just a bummer!  Thank you for the clarification!
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Thank you for the clarification!
