CPS3 Broken!!!

System_1 · July 13, 2007, 2:31am

I have a question for anyone knowledgable in MAME…I’ve been playing SFIII3 for a few days now under MAME on my mac, and recently installed ElSemis emulator on my girlfriends PC. I immediately noticed a large difference in the visual quality between the two versions with the PC being quite superior. The MAME version on mac looks to be in either lower resolution, lower color depth or lower anti-aliasing.

Does anyone know what could be causing the difference? Opengl vs. direct3d? I’ve tried several of the runtime options on my mac but haven’t been able to get the quality the same.

System_1 · July 13, 2007, 2:36am

If I’m on mistaken. Elsemi’s emu is much better in terms of quality than the Mame Emu. Although ElSemi’s does not come with online play…its a sacrifice some people will take. In other words, Elsemi’s emu is made much better than the Mame ones.

System_1 · July 13, 2007, 2:42am

I would try:

Enabling Bilinear Filtering.
Enabling a Visual Effect (I like Aperture 2x4bg)
Enabling an Image Enhancement (some of these take up a lot of processing however)
Set Scale Screen to 1.
Set you resolution if you’re playing in full screen, but also turn on Enforce Aspect Ratio.

EDIT: This is what SFIII3 looks like on my screen. I use Aperture 2x4bg and Bilinear Filtering (Bilinear Filtering is probably the most important option). Some people don’t like Aperture, I’ve had my firend tell me it looks like an old TV. Be sure to click to zoom in on the image in Firefox/IE it has weird red lines if it’s not zoomed to it’s actual size.

Eiji · July 13, 2007, 6:27am

I use the 2xSai filter in MAME with 640x480 res, 60Hz refresh and vsync enabled on a 21" Sony CRT monitor.

Looks better than that on-screen due to the JPG compression.

System_1 · July 13, 2007, 7:19am

Hey does anybody happen to know if there’s an infinite special bar cheat? I’m trying to practice Kara RD but it’s sort of hard when I have to rebuild my each time.

Eiji · July 13, 2007, 7:42pm

Here you go, I hacked these earlier on but they didn’t make it into the official cheat.dat.

:sfiii3:00000000:20695B5:000000A0:FFFFFFFF:Infinite Power PL1
:sfiii3:00000000:20695FD:00000060:FFFFFFFF:Always Stunned PL1
:sfiii3:00000000:20695FD:00000000:FFFFFFFF:Never Stunned PL1
:sfiii3:00000000:20695E1:000000A0:FFFFFFFF:Infinite Power PL2
:sfiii3:00000000:2069611:00000060:FFFFFFFF:Always Stunned PL2
:sfiii3:00000000:2069611:00000000:FFFFFFFF:Never Stunned PL2

Tiyuri · July 13, 2007, 8:34pm

Nice work, I was looking for those too.

; [ Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future NO CD ]
:sfiii3n:60000000:0000000:00000000:00000000:Enable at Character Select
:sfiii3n:60000000:0000000:00000000:00000000:
:sfiii3n:00000000:2011387:0000000F:FFFFFFFF:Play as Shin Akuma PL1
:sfiii3n:00000000:201566B:00000000:FFFFFFFF:Play as Shin Akuma PL1 (2/3)
:sfiii3n:00000000:20154CF:00000006:FFFFFFFF:Play as Shin Akuma PL1 (3/3)
:sfiii3n:00000000:2011387:00000000:FFFFFFFF:Play as Gill PL1
:sfiii3n:00000000:201566B:00000004:FFFFFFFF:Play as Gill PL1 (2/3)
:sfiii3n:00000000:20154CF:00000001:FFFFFFFF:Play as Gill PL1 (3/3)
:sfiii3n:60000000:0000000:00000000:00000000:
:sfiii3n:00000000:2011388:0000000F:FFFFFFFF:Play as Shin Akuma PL2
:sfiii3n:00000000:201566D:00000000:FFFFFFFF:Play as Shin Akuma PL2 (2/3)
:sfiii3n:00000000:20154D1:00000006:FFFFFFFF:Play as Shin Akuma PL2 (3/3)
:sfiii3n:00000000:2011388:00000000:FFFFFFFF:Play as Gill PL2
:sfiii3n:00000000:201566D:00000004:FFFFFFFF:Play as Gill PL2 (2/3)
:sfiii3n:00000000:20154D1:00000001:FFFFFFFF:Play as Gill PL2 (3/3)
:sfiii3n:62000000:0000000:00000000:00000000:Background Select
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:00000001:00000000:Alex
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:00000002:00000000:Ryu
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:00000003:00000000:Yun
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:00000004:00000000:Dudley
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:00000005:00000000:Necro
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:00000006:00000000:Hugo
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:00000007:00000000:Ibuki
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:00000008:00000000:Elena
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:00000009:00000000:Oro
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:0000000A:00000000:Yang
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:0000000B:00000000:Ken
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:0000000C:00000000:Sean
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:0000000D:00000000:Urien
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:0000000E:00000000:Akuma
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:0000000F:00000000:Shin Akuma
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:00000010:00000000:Chun-Li
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:00000011:00000000:Makoto
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:00000013:00000000:Twelve
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:00000014:00000000:Remy
:sfiii3n:00010000:2026BB0:00000000:00000000:Gill
:sfiii3n:00000000:2007CE0:00000009:FFFFFFFF:Infinite Credits
:sfiii3n:00000000:2011377:00000063:FFFFFFFF:Infinite Time
:sfiii3n:00000001:2011377:00000001:FFFFFFFF:Finish this Round Now!
:sfiii3n:60000000:0000000:00000000:00000000:
:sfiii3n:00000000:2068D0B:000000A0:FFFFFFFF:Infinite Health PL1
:sfiii3n:00000001:2068D0B:00000000:FFFFFFFF:Drain All Health Now! PL1
:sfiii3n:60000000:0000000:00000000:00000000:
:sfiii3n:00000000:20691A3:000000A0:FFFFFFFF:Infinite Health PL2
:sfiii3n:00000001:20691A3:00000000:FFFFFFFF:Drain All Health Now! PL2
:sfiii3n:62000000:00000000:00000000:00000000:Region
:sfiii3n:A0010000:0001FECB:00000001:FFFFFFFF:Japan
:sfiii3n:A0010000:0001FECB:00000002:FFFFFFFF:Asia
:sfiii3n:A0010000:0001FECB:00000003:FFFFFFFF:Euro
:sfiii3n:A0010000:0001FECB:00000004:FFFFFFFF:Usa
:sfiii3n:A0010000:0001FECB:00000005:FFFFFFFF:Hispanic
:sfiii3n:A0010000:0001FECB:00000006:FFFFFFFF:Brazil
:sfiii3n:A0010000:0001FECB:00000007:FFFFFFFF:Oceania
:sfiii3n:A0010000:0001FECB:00000008:FFFFFFFF:Korea
:sfiii3n:A0000100:0001FECB:000000FF:FFFFFFFF:Free Region select
:sfiii3n:62000000:00000000:00000000:00000000:CD Check
:sfiii3n:A0310000:0001FECC:0B000000:FFFFFFFF:False
:sfiii3n:A0310000:0001FECC:00000000:FFFFFFFF:True
:sfiii3n:00000000:20695B5:000000A0:FFFFFFFF:Infinite Power PL1
:sfiii3n:00000000:20695FD:00000060:FFFFFFFF:Always Stunned PL1
:sfiii3n:00000000:20695FD:00000000:FFFFFFFF:Never Stunned PL1
:sfiii3n:00000000:20695E1:000000A0:FFFFFFFF:Infinite Power PL2
:sfiii3n:00000000:2069611:00000060:FFFFFFFF:Always Stunned PL2
:sfiii3n:00000000:2069611:00000000:FFFFFFFF:Never Stunned PL2

Here’s my cheat.dat for sfiii3n. If anyone wants it.

System_1 · July 13, 2007, 8:47pm

Eiji: how do you enable 2xsai? Do you know the command line argument?

AcidGlow · July 13, 2007, 11:10pm

They need to fix the Shin Akuma glitches

NapaSelect · July 13, 2007, 11:13pm

So has anyone made a list of recommended specs, and/or required specs? I can run it fine on this comp, but one of my friends wants it and i dont know if his comp would be able to handle it.

Dragonfave723 · July 13, 2007, 11:13pm

…plus, Dudley’s NG stage still got that pink tile block floating at the top-right corner of the stage. :looney:

System_1 · July 14, 2007, 12:03am

and the end of the introduction.

Eiji · July 14, 2007, 2:23am

No need for commandline. I use MAME Plus Plus which has the option in the TAB menu once a game has loaded.

Scroll to the bottom and download the GCC version 0.117 build.

System_1 · July 14, 2007, 2:38am

nice thxs Eiji

System_1 · July 14, 2007, 3:00am

I’m at work and can’t really be downloading emulators so: does mame plus plus work on os x?

System_1 · July 14, 2007, 3:02am

Probably not… If I were you I’d look for some sort of Windows application emulator for Mac (I know Linux has WINE, but not sure if Mac has something similar).

Brutal-R · July 14, 2007, 3:11am

My cps3 emu has started lagging after a minute or two and it never used to do that. Any reason why? (test version 3)

System_1 · July 14, 2007, 4:22am

ElSemi 1.0 works as well for me as the other three did, basically at full speed, but MAME, which improved in speed only a little for me after .117, is still far too slow to use. I’m beginning to think it’s my crappy mobo that won’t let me dual-channel my RAM. Still, all things considered, I don’t think it should run at only 55%…

Crunch · July 14, 2007, 5:33am

Do these work with the CD version, as well?

Eiji · July 14, 2007, 5:47am

Yes. Just change the :sfiii3n: to :sfiii3: