3D Arcade

Wonderfull

For performance reasons, there should be an option to replace the emulated game with a video file until it is activated. People with faster computers can have all the machines fully emulated.

and yay for 3D sound!

Performance reasons? Just don't run so many at once?

Once I have finished the software 3D sound engine it will be interesting how the performance goes, it should be a lot better. There are some behind the scene kernel operations happening with the sound at the moment that rob performance. Most of the reason the performance is killed in the video I made however is the lights and I have an ATI 4870 1GB. Not many games these days have more than say 4 dynamic lights active at any one time, and in that video there are 16!

I'm going to be giving multiple options for the lighting, my GFXCARD can handle about 16 lights at ok-ish performance (~40fps), the newer ones could maybe get up to 24 or so. Whereas if I limit the lights to only 4 the graphics card performance will never come into it. When it comes to running virtual machines my I7 can run at least 25 SMS at once.... so that isn't really an issue as much as the graphics/sound are at the moment.

Well, people just want to be immersed in a 3D arcade without paying tons of cash on a computer that is able run it. Most computers can run more videos than perfectly emulated games. The more options, the better.

Just take your time.