Building a MAME arcade cabinet...

I'd say just the standard Mame. Well, Mame32 for easy game selection.

Oh yeah, version 106 of MAME does NOT work with a lot of the games I've tried for some reason. version 95 is what we've been using.

I just built one, finished it this month. The only two suggestions i have are get back ups of the inexpensive parts and don't get frustrated when hooking in the joysticks, it takes a while to get them just right.

Have any pictures, Biff?

I shall take pictures and post them.

Well my joysticks are screwed up, so you get some helpful pics.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...calMikeJoy.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ogicaljoy1.jpg


You can see what my cab looks like (it's really not great, but it was cheap and effective) on the this months haul thread.

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Originally Posted by andyrose

Are you talking about fiberboard or particleboard? Fiberboard is the heavy duty water resistant shit they build office furniture out of. And, I'm pretty sure, arcade cabinets.

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Particle board is a type of fiberboard genius. And all types of fiberboard are not water resistant.

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Oh yeah, version 106 of MAME does NOT work with a lot of the games I've tried for some reason. version 95 is what we've been using.

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I'd bet that you have out of date romsets, then. MAME tends to reorganize romsets pretty often. There are tools out there that update romsets (maybe clrmamepro does it?), or you could just find newer ones.

I personally use win32 version 0.92.0.0 it works great and is very easy to use.

The only games I can't load properly are the Raiden series and Die Hard arcade.

TRY GUNBIRD! I hate bullet hell shooters but this one is awesome and functions properly in mame.

ER.. Of course I mean try it if you own the machine. (TM) (.) boob.

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Originally Posted by buttcheeks

Particle board is a type of fiberboard genius. And all types of fiberboard are not water resistant.

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What crawled up your butt, ass?

Obviously, particle board is a type of fiberboard. I was comparing particle board to MEDIUM DENSITY FIBERBOARD, which are obviously not the same thing.

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Originally Posted by Tain

I'd bet that you have out of date romsets, then. MAME tends to reorganize romsets pretty often. There are tools out there that update romsets (maybe clrmamepro does it?), or you could just find newer ones.

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Ah, thanks man, that was driving me nuts. I'm sure that's what it is. I don't know if I want to download all 3500 of my ROMS, but I can if that's what it takes.

3500 dude? I have like 70 and I thought I was excessive.

Have you found a working version of Die Hard arcade, I'm dying to back up my arcade cabinet, cough cough.