Hellfire slowing down when shooting

[ptoing]

Tried Hellfire recenly in MAME. Everytime I shoot with a powered up shot (from 3rd power up or so on) the game slows down a bit while the shot is on screen.
Is this normal behaviour it has on the PCB as well or is it MAME being weird here?

[Captain]

nope.
Mine works fine when i shoot.
I'm using mame++

[ptoing]

I doubt the general version of mame will make a difference, I am using normal commandline mame, latest version.

Perhaps I should have specified that I mean once you pick up a couple of powerups and then shoot.

[Captain]

I had no problems when i shot at higher levels.

[ptoing]

I just tried Mame++, latest version I could find is 0.119, which I reckon is the one you use.

It has the same slowdown and I doubt that it is my PC, it's plenty powerful enough to emulate this (as well as more hardware intensive stuff) The slowdown is not gamebreaking at all, just a bit odd.

So for now I assume that it is in the PCB as well until someone who actually played the PCB can confirm or not.

[Captain]

I wonder why i don't have the issues.

What are you configuration settings in mame?

[ptoing]

I think you probably have them as well, you are just not seeing it

[Captain]

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Okay so i tried looking at it in so many ways...yet I don't see the lag.

[ptoing]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovRAa_JWU1E

Do you see the slowdown there? It becomes quite visible at around 1:40 when he has the triple laser thing.
If you do not see it then it's just you having very insensitive eyes.

[Captain]

But I can see the lag there.

It's just that I don't have it.

[Emuser]

I recall that just being a part of how the original pcb was, whenever 2 powered up shots were on screen in my experience, the game would slowdown for a bit.

[Battletoad]

Try to press F11(?) in MAME and look if the speed always stays at 100%. If it does, everything shall be alright.

[ptoing]

Yeh, always stays at 100%. So I guess we can assume this happens in the PCB as well if emulation is correct, and I do not see how weird emulation would cause such a problem.

Also we can assume GradiusuiraD tried to troll me or something. Nice going, jerk.

[Captain]

Nope, explain again why would I want to troll you?

Also mine also stays at 100 percent all the time.

[ptoing]

Because you said there was no slowdown (which there is), the one which you said you saw in the video I linked.
And you surely would have that slowdown as well. But you said you don't. So I call bullshit. Anyway, the issue is pretty much resolved anyway.

[MJR]

PCB version of hellfire slows down sometimes when your lasers are equipped to the max. So should mame.