MAMEWorld Forums - Programming - Re: Raspberry Pi 2 and mame

> honestly does anyone care about "accurate emulation or about hardware preservation".
> doubt it... people care about game preservation. being able to play all their retro
> games that they grew up with. the rest is working with what you got.

Then leave. This forum is called MAMEWorld. You are obviously unfamiliar with the fundamental intent of MAME, despite somehow managing to be registered here for the better part of a decade. I applaud you on your commendable attempt at bluster to cover for the fact that you apparently know so little about either MAME, the Raspberry Pi 2, or both, as to both not know that it supports multiple cores, and the fact that absolutely nothing that has a chance of running on your dream system will benefit from it. If you want to play some hacked-up decade-old version of the MAME source base, there are plenty of forums to suit your needs. There are even sub-forums on this very site that would be more than happy to stroke your ego and tell you what a special snowflake you are for wanting to run MAME on a garbage CPU. The Programming subforum, which in particular is largely only patronized by active MAME devs and people seeking questions from active MAME devs, is not one of them.

Lastly, this

> 6 times faster than the previous model.

Speaks to a fundamental misunderstanding of what clock rates are, what ARM extensions are, and why benchmarks are of precisely fuck-all relevance to how an actual application that relies almost purely on single-threaded integer performance is going to bench on something that is scarcely 23% faster in reality than whatever artificial benchmarks you've ginned up. The only speed around here seems to be what you yourself are on.