ColecoGemini

Nobody is upset. Just laughing at some of the fairly ridiculous things people find that can cause games to glitch. This game is pretty damned awesome now.

I wonder if this is not so much a design flaw, but a fully intented result. In lots of cases, the final colors after the shifting occurs are more natural and desirable, especially with some of the arcade ports where the cold startup colors seem to be way off.

Wow. All I have to say is Holy Crap. Also - on the last few pages - at what point does it go from bug reporting to "I'm trying everything I can to break this game!!!!"

Got most of my 7800 games at the one in Quincy Center. Got my Coleco Gemini for Christams in '83 - they got it at Sears at he SSP in Braintree.

I would Vote Karateka as well. It doesn't really need that much work, just to be sped up a bit and have some extra graphics added. The control system is funky, but I remember reading and trying a while ago somewhere that if you run it in an emulator that had an adjustable frame rate, and run it at like 70fps instead of the standard 60fps it runs really well is and much more playable. Arcade games that don't yet exist on the 7800, I would vote for one or more of the following: Crystal Castles (the original, not Bob's awesome new platformer) Gyruss Defender/Stargate Spy Hunter Zaxxon and some lesser games to consider: Time Pilot/84 Track & Field Vanguard Popeye Paperboy Super Sprint Moon Patrol Tapper (with the original Bud Logo)

Ok, here's where I'm at: Triple Buffer is already off. Sleep is set to 0 numprocessors is at 1 graphics driver are up to the latest. Direct x 9.0c is installed. In fact, I just reinstalled it. Same result. and I'm only running at 1600x900. The Mess.ini I'm using is the one posted above in this thread. What I meant with "that's always been the case" was referring to the fact that running it in a window is always going to be slower than running it fullscreen. When you run MAME or MESS in a window, your graphics card then has to deal with all the MAME processing, plus continue to output your desktop/gadgets/widgets/icons etc. When you run fullscreen, it forgets all of that and just focuses on MAME/MESS. So the suggestion to run it in a window to speed things up from that site you linked is bogus. And yes, I've been playing around with MESS and MAME since the very early 0.34ish days. I even did a bit of dev work way back when on MESS. I haven't played with the HLSL stuff before, but I knew it was around and I figured since this was a newish machine with the "nicer" graphics card option, vs. the cheap integrated Intel one, it would run OK. But it doesn't. One note: turning off YIQ helped a lot, it's still not really skip-free, but it's better than before.

I found that link on Google yesterday too. I tried all those suggestions, and none of them helped. running in a window makes it run even slower than running full screen, and that's always been the case since the beginning of MAME/MESS. It doesn't really make any sense either, because those video cards they are referring to are like 6 years old, two generations older than what I have and 1/4 of the video ram. I was asking for suggestions from anyone who has HLSL effects running at full speed without frame skipping needed.

Can anyone reccommend what kind of video card you need to have to play MESS with the HLSL stuff enabled and not have it be unplayably slow? I have a few computers but right now I'm using a Lenovo ThinkPad T420 with the NVidia NVS 4200m graphics with 1gb of video ram, and everything I've tried is skip skip skip skipping ing ing ing. This laptop is only a year old, and runs AutoCAD 3D 2012 with no problems at all. Thanks