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- The Zydeco King
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Dam, that's one very nice Cab.
Here's mine it's not as nice but I'm happy with it.
it's made from a Crystal Castles cabinet that I found a local Flee market for $20 dollars. It came with no arcade CPU board and with a busted monitor.
Now it has an 19" monitor (which is the original arcade size)
with an Intel pentium 2 chip and a 20g hard drive
I'm building it very cheep.
The controlls are made from a standard mouse and a Microsoft Sidewinder game pad. I hacked the mouse to work with the original Crystal Castles track ball.
The cabinet is in very good shape for being 21 years old.
Here's mine it's not as nice but I'm happy with it.
it's made from a Crystal Castles cabinet that I found a local Flee market for $20 dollars. It came with no arcade CPU board and with a busted monitor.
Now it has an 19" monitor (which is the original arcade size)
with an Intel pentium 2 chip and a 20g hard drive
I'm building it very cheep.
The controlls are made from a standard mouse and a Microsoft Sidewinder game pad. I hacked the mouse to work with the original Crystal Castles track ball.
The cabinet is in very good shape for being 21 years old.
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- MM007
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BEAUTIFUL! I have a question...
What kind of processing power is needed for a MAME cabinet meant to play games up to and including 16-bit equivalents?
I have a couple spare Pentium 133MHz boards here....and even a couple PII/Celeron compies. ^^
I am also wondering what OS I should use for one. I'm not familiar with Linux, though....
What kind of processing power is needed for a MAME cabinet meant to play games up to and including 16-bit equivalents?
I have a couple spare Pentium 133MHz boards here....and even a couple PII/Celeron compies. ^^
I am also wondering what OS I should use for one. I'm not familiar with Linux, though....
Warranty-Voiding fun!
Depends on the games you would liek to play u can run a most old game son the 133mhz but i would use vantage for that its got 80 games made to run on low end pc's
Hell i can play full speed digdug on a 486 SX 25mhz
But i have a old 266 i was gonna use for my arcade cab and i can play metal slug on it no problems but only in dos.
If you have windows its really a drag cause of the overhead
min pc you want is a 350mhz really
But all my arcade cabs use DOS and gamelauncher for my arcade so i can just flick the switch off without worring about hdd caus eim not using windows the worst thing that can happen is u lose your high scores thats it but if u exit the game to the gamelauncher menu then turn it off then no worrys about the high score file
I think dos is the best way to go but thats only how i think about it.
Windows is faster at loading the big snk roms but i dont care as its not to long
Hell i can play full speed digdug on a 486 SX 25mhz
But i have a old 266 i was gonna use for my arcade cab and i can play metal slug on it no problems but only in dos.
If you have windows its really a drag cause of the overhead
min pc you want is a 350mhz really
But all my arcade cabs use DOS and gamelauncher for my arcade so i can just flick the switch off without worring about hdd caus eim not using windows the worst thing that can happen is u lose your high scores thats it but if u exit the game to the gamelauncher menu then turn it off then no worrys about the high score file
I think dos is the best way to go but thats only how i think about it.
Windows is faster at loading the big snk roms but i dont care as its not to long
- MM007
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Okay, thanks for the data. If I want to use Windows, I need a PII/Celeron to use. ^^
NiN^_^NiN wrote:Depends on the games you would liek to play u can run a most old game son the 133mhz but i would use vantage for that its got 80 games made to run on low end pc's
Hell i can play full speed digdug on a 486 SX 25mhz
But i have a old 266 i was gonna use for my arcade cab and i can play metal slug on it no problems but only in dos.
If you have windows its really a drag cause of the overhead
min pc you want is a 350mhz really
But all my arcade cabs use DOS and gamelauncher for my arcade so i can just flick the switch off without worring about hdd caus eim not using windows the worst thing that can happen is u lose your high scores thats it but if u exit the game to the gamelauncher menu then turn it off then no worrys about the high score file
I think dos is the best way to go but thats only how i think about it.
Windows is faster at loading the big snk roms but i dont care as its not to long
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- gotchocolatemilk2
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I suggest you stay away from windows for your cabinet unless you will be using some serious processing power ( say 1Ghz +). If you do use a fairly powerful machine, go with windows as you'll have enough speed to handle the Operating System (XP) and the software/games. I personally like using Windows XP and Mamwah as my FE for MAME. It just comes down to how you want YOUR machine to work!
I think I'm still signing in as "Guest". I have the 4 player cabinet listed in this thread earlier.
Matt
I think I'm still signing in as "Guest". I have the 4 player cabinet listed in this thread earlier.
Matt
- The Zydeco King
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