Street Fighter III loading times

[hengey]

Hi,

Anyone else when playing Street Fighter III series on Mame (1.51 & 1.51 rom/chd) have to load the "CD" or "Disk" each time before playing?

Is there a way around this to make the game load up instantly like the other Mame games? just bit of a bore when I have friends round and it takes about 30mins to "mount" the CHD.

Thanks

[Trnzaddict]

You only have to let the game do this once, all cpsIII games have to go through its nvram initialization process.

Press the insert key and hold it down so it fast forwards through it, but right before it ends release the key and let it write and finish on its own.

Once they all do this it should say loading when you start the game again but then go right to the game.

[hengey]

You were right thanks

[mameshane]

You only have to let the game do this once, all cpsIII games have to go through its nvram initialization process.

Press the insert key and hold it down so it fast forwards through it, but right before it ends release the key and let it write and finish on its own.

Once they all do this it should say loading when you start the game again but then go right to the game.

wish I had known that earlier! I have been loading the game and walking away for 20 minutes or so..

[haku99]

You only have to let the game do this once, all cpsIII games have to go through its nvram initialization process.

Press the insert key and hold it down so it fast forwards through it, but right before it ends release the key and let it write and finish on its own.

Once they all do this it should say loading when you start the game again but then go right to the game.

sorry to bring up an old thread, but i have a similar issue

when you say 'insert key', do you mean the insert key by the number pad (0 on my number pad)? I tried pressing and holding it , but the loading bar doesn't speed up at all..

thanks!

[dark13]

The common key in mame to "fast forward" (more than 100% speed, speed depends by cpu power) is F10. Press it and the press it again once the game start.

[haku99]

The common key in mame to "fast forward" (more than 100% speed, speed depends by cpu power) is F10. Press it and the press it again once the game start.

Hi

thanks for replying.

I meant speeding up the the game load time for CPSIII games, not speeding up the game itself...the load times take from 10-20 minutes (NVRAM loading?)

[volumetric]

You dont need to do the write in procedure with mame, just use the nocd roms, All SFIII roms are tiny (as they use the CHD) EXCEPT the ones that end in 'n' (eg sfiiin etc), if you use these larger roms, you wont have to sit through the write in.

[Polemicist]

I've just completed the NVRam loading of every single CPS3 game found in MAME. Now all games load in seconds. Do it once and then that is it. Please note this will take up a bit of space in your MAME emulator directory so be aware. Mine is currently sitting on about a Gig of data.

[dark13]

Hi

thanks for replying.

I meant speeding up the the game load time for CPSIII games, not speeding up the game itself...the load times take from 10-20 minutes (NVRAM loading?)

Speeding up the whole game will speed up loading time too. And, as already said, each game will write vram only once, second time you start that rom it will load vram instead of reinstalling from "cd". Or, as suggested, you can use cps3's "nocd" roms