Help for MAME noobs

[Luckydogg420]

I've made several custom cabinets in the last couple years. If anyone has a question, I'd be glad to help

 

[MultiHack3D]

I've made several custom cabinets in the last couple years. If anyone has a question, I'd be glad to help

I know this is a little bit late but.... Luckydogg420... post some pictures bro!!!
Im very interested... and im sure not the only one!
Without pictures its like.....

 

[Luckydogg420]

I have random projects scattered around the forums. Here's a couple links to various projects I've worked on.

http://www.pinballrevolution.com/threads/custom-mame-design-and-build.864/

http://www.pinballrevolution.com/threads/pearl-jam-mame-update-project.1152/

http://www.pinballrevolution.com/threads/luckydoggs-virtual-pin-project.1211/

Http://www.pinballrevolution.com/threads/minipinball-ipad-cabinet-for-pinball-arcade.1166/

 

[Northern Wish]

How easy / cheap is to upgrade the MAME box?

I bought a 60 in 1 cabinet last year and would love to expand my game selection.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Chris Bardon]

Going 60 in 1 to MAME is certainly possible, but there's a few things to consider:

• Monitor-If you have a regular arcade monitor, then you'll need to either swap it out, or get a card that can interface directly to it (is ArcadeVGA still a thing?-not sure on that).
  
• Controls-You should be able to keep your existing buttons/sticks/panel, but you'll likely need to convert to an ipac to connect to the PC.
• PC-you can get away with a pretty minimal PC these days, but if you need to be able to put in a PCI card for the monitor, then that precludes some of the really small NUC class PCs you can get, or repurposing an old laptop or something. If you have a regular desktop PC from the last 10 years though, you should be OK. I have a MAME running off a 2002 era Pentium, and I can run most games just fine except for the newest stuff in MAME (sega Naomi etc).

 

[Menace]

60-1 boards are usually Jamma, so he could just get a J-pac and most of the work is done for him.

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[Chris Bardon]

Right, I forgot all about the J-pac. Much simpler that way.