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I built one a little over 2 years ago. It was alot of fun. Gonna make cocktail sooner than later.
Totally agree. Look at a lot of different projects and see what you like and go from there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tonic the Drunkhog
Nice thing is that it appears that there are a few people here that had done it before to get advice from if you run into any questions/issues.
I love mame cabs, but this idea has never made sense to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by andyrose
the whole point of a mame cab is to recreate the arcade experence, screen setup, controls and all. Why would anyone want to play standing up with alien controlers for a console game on a arcade monitor?
If you're going to play shmups or fighters that MAME can't emulate, then you need a PS2 in there...
I have a dreamcast in my arcade cab. pls blv.
I dont know what the voltages are, but I can tell you that they don't output the same (ie you need to make adjustments for each system). I use my jpac as a signal booster, mainly because I don't want to adjust my monitor each time I change something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tain
At least for the Dreamcast, you just wire your joystick controls to the Dreamcast. It's not very easy, and you have to swap power plugs to switch from one to the other.Quote:
the whole point of a mame cab is to recreate the arcade experence, screen setup, controls and all. Why would anyone want to play standing up with alien controlers for a console game on a arcade monitor?
Hey Tonic and Videodrone, you have any pics of your cabs you can send me?
The thing about the LCD is this. We've been playing MAME at my computer repair shop on a spare computer with just regular joysticks for the past few weeks, using it as goof off time. We had a customer bring in a 22" NEC LCD for repair, and when we hooked it up and ran MAME it was so freaking beautiful. Even really old games looked amazing, even at their native resolutions. I'm sure the quality of the LCD makes a big difference, but I also hooked up my 19" widescreen LCD to it and it looks just about as good on every game we've played so far. One reason I want to make a bigass LCD cab is just for the simple fact that I haven't seen anyone else do it yet.....which is a big plus to me because I like being different. But we were also designing it to where you could rotate the LCD 90 degrees to play vertical shooters.
We'll probably just end up putting a 27" TV in there, just in case we want to hook up some newer consoles, but if the quality of newer LCDs can hold up to an RGB arcade monitor, then I'm going to find some way to go with that, if only to make the cabinet easier to move around!
Alright, here's something for you guys.......did you know you can emulate the Dreamcast on a PC pretty much perfectly now? Without going into names, there's one that allows you to play Marvel vs Capcom 2 and Powerstone 2(the 2 main DC games I would want on this thing) flawlessly, and I'm pretty sure it will play many other ones once I get the chance to test it out more. It would be really nice not to have to hook up a Dreamcast and have to change CDs out every time I wanted to play a DC game, if I could create a custom menu screen and just link up with the Dreamcast emulator, that would be kickass. I kinda want to have a menu on the select screen that goes like this:
Arcade -> choose this and link up to the MAME arcade list
Dreamcast ->
NES
Sega Master System
SNES
Genesis
Sega CD
Sega 32X
Saturn
PSX
N64
Game Boy
Game Gear
GBA
GB DS
etc., and just have every console emulated on the main screen.
Anybody have light guns hooked up to theirs? Because I'm going to have to get some light gun action going if I'm going to do this.
So now that my studio is nearly finished, I'm starting on my next aracde machine (next to the neo, wee!).
The plan is to drop a xbox running mame and a DC inside the thing because I have extra systems of both.
How does the xbox mame compare to the pc mame? I'd much rather use an xbox due to convience and ease of setup, but if there is a HUGE diffierence between the emulation quality and a mid range pc I might change my mind.
Any place that has xbox mame/pc mame type comparisons?
Thanks!
Chankast, right?Quote:
did you know you can emulate the Dreamcast on a PC pretty much perfectly now? Without going into names, there's one that allows you to play Marvel vs Capcom 2 and Powerstone 2(the 2 main DC games I would want on this thing) flawlessly, and I'm pretty sure it will play many other ones once I get the chance to test it out more. It would be really nice not to have to hook up a Dreamcast and have to change CDs out every time I wanted to play a DC game, if I could create a custom menu screen and just link up with the Dreamcast emulator, that would be kickass.
Yeah, it's getting there, but it's pretty far from perfection. At least, it doesn't run the games that I want in the slightest. And it hasn't been updated in two years, so I'm a sad panda.
http://mamewah.mameworld.net/Quote:
I kinda want to have a menu on the select screen that goes like this:
MameWAH is a menu frontend thing for pretty much any emulator you can find. It's joystick controllable, has custom layouts, runs at any resolution, supports sound, supports video backgrounds, game snapshots, game video previews, and a million other things. It also runs PC games, so I have it linking to all those doujin shmups and shit.
Basically, you can assign buttons to switch platform as well as buttons to switch sublists for each platform. So, I've got every MAME game I have (many of which are clones or run like crap, most of which don't have screenshots, and it's a huge slow list to scroll through), but I also have a "Recommended Games" list with all the stuff that I like perfectly configured with screens.
There's an alternative called MaLa, which supports MameWah layouts and is supposedly easier to configure, but I haven't messed with it yet.
Xbox MAME is slower, has a way outdated game list, and it always outputs video with hardware stretching. I'd say just go for a cheap PC, myself.Quote:
So now that my studio is nearly finished, I'm starting on my next aracde machine (next to the neo, wee!).
The plan is to drop a xbox running mame and a DC inside the thing because I have extra systems of both.
How does the xbox mame compare to the pc mame? I'd much rather use an xbox due to convience and ease of setup, but if there is a HUGE diffierence between the emulation quality and a mid range pc I might change my mind.
Any place that has xbox mame/pc mame type comparisons?
Thanks!
Unfortunately don't have any current pics. I originally used laminate tape for the edging as I did have/have access to a rounter to cut the grove for t-molding. I recently got one and a grove cutter, so the cab has been laying on my basement floor for the past few weeks for my father-in-law to come help me cut the groves (see: don't wanna fuck up).Quote:
Originally Posted by andyrose
I took pitures of each step and started to make a webpage (still haved got around to finishing it), but anyway this was the enterence page. Didn't have a marquee at the time I took the pic and only had a 17' pc monitor it there. Both things have since changed:
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...id=19869&stc=1
Here is a collage of some of the wip stages:
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...id=19870&stc=1
I ended up using a hybrid Capcom 6 button layout/SNK layout for my controls (If anybody is interested in using this template simply LMK -I'll send it your way):
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...chmentid=19767
In the attachments below I put the boarder art I found and modified/edited to match my cab. They add a real nice look.
Hell yes, Videodrone, that's what I'm talking about. I've decided to go with a 4 player setup. I like that marble look, I think I'm going to go with a high gloss coat of black paint for mine and just add a few graphics. Since I've had some experience cutting windows for custom PCs, I think I may put some side windows in the cab, not sure yet.
I don't know about that, but it plays Marvel vs Capcom 2 perfectly, which MAME can't do, and so far I've also tested Ikaruga, Capcom vs SNK 2000, and 2 or 3 others, and it works like a frickin charm. It's going to be great not having to shove in my DC and swap out games for this thing, not to mention hooking it up to the sticks.Quote:
Chankast, right?
Yeah, it's getting there, but it's pretty far from perfection. At least, it doesn't run the games that I want in the slightest. And it hasn't been updated in two years, so I'm a sad panda.
Who says the internet is just a series of interconnected tubes? Thanks man, this is what I was looking for.Quote:
http://mamewah.mameworld.net/
MameWAH is a menu frontend thing for pretty much any emulator you can find. It's joystick controllable, has custom layouts, runs at any resolution, supports sound, supports video backgrounds, game snapshots, game video previews, and a million other things. It also runs PC games, so I have it linking to all those doujin shmups and shit.