> Bought a Casio EM-500 for $300. Now waiting fo my 64mb MMC to arrive, then I'll
> try MAME on it.

Nah, no need to wait! You can load MAME right away (well, you won't have much space left for other stuff, but who cares :))))


>Could someone recommend some games that run particularly >well on a non-OC'ed EM-500?

I suggest you use MAMEBoy 'cause it's a bit faster than MAMECE3. However, it supports much less games. Games that will run very well are Frogger, Galaxian, Space Invaders, Crazy Kong, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, Mr Do, Q-Bert, Pooyan, Scramble + some probably some more. Do not hesitate to overclock it, though. I suggest going to 180 MHz, just make sure you install latest patch from Casio which solves MMC slowdown problem when overclocked.


> And I hear MAME CE3 uses older ROM sets than current MAME. Are there any plans
> to upgrade to the current sets? Is there some compelling reason why older sets
> are still used? My guess is that you're basing builds off older source codes and
> it would be a lot of work to upgrade the CE sources.

The real reason why MAMEBoy uses older roms is that it's based on 0.35 mame source which performs faster than the 0.36 source which Techmaster used for MAMECE3. I have no plans of upgrading the source to any newer version exactly because of that problem. Feel free to send me a request for any older rom set that proves to be difficult to find.

And make sure to shell out some cash for the super High-Quality emulators made for Microsoft by that wicked guy Larry Bank (Dig-Dug, Ms Pacman, Pacman). They run all at 60 FPS full speed with sound.

Have fun with your new toy!