Having trouble with Spider-Man (90s Arcade game)
“Spider-Man The Video Game”, an arcade beat-em up from the 90s.
Has anyone got this game running smoothly on Garlic OS? It’s choppy and very slow for me, tried all the usually settings in the menu (overclocking, threaded video ect).
I’ve tried placing it in the Arcade folder, Mame, FBNeo… tried different versions of the rom. No luck.
Posted Jul 26, 2023, 3:57 AM UTC
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If you're talking about "Spider-Man: The Videogame", 1991, Sega, I have spidey.zip in /ROMs/ARCADE (mame2003-plus romset)., it runs at 60 FPS for me at stock clocks.
(At -- underclock, it ran about 43 FPS.)
Thank you for this info, it’s awesome to hear that it works (childhood game for me). I haven’t tried that rom, been using variations of “spidman”. You’ve pointed me in the right direction.
As near as I can tell, the spidman.zip version was made for MAME .97 and later. Garlic uses MAME2003-Plus (.78 ?). For the record, I have no idea what the MAME devs are thinking, continually changing working ROMs and trying to stick to 8 character DOS filenames.
Yeah it’s pretty confusing for someone new to emulation. I’ve got the game working properly now with “spider.zip”. I’ve got a question for you, is it safe to leave my rg35xx in overclock ++ mode? I’ve seen people commenting that it will kill the gpu, is this true?
Your guess is as good as mine. Most games that I play don't need it, so I haven't really used it much.