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So I listened to Jack's advice and moved this form the Off-Topic forum to the project showoff forum.
For those of you who don't know MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. Basically it emulates arcade games such as street fighter, pac-man , Galaga, etc. I'm configuring an old PC of mine to launch strait into a MAME frontend, so you won't even know its a computer. From the frontend you will be able to choose from many games to play on. I'm cutting up some MDF wood and hooking up arcade buttons and joysticks to my computer, then putting the computer inside the cab i'm building and yeah, haha.
It will be a Bar-top mame cab, in other words it isn't a full on arcade machine, It's an arcade machine cut in half to fit on a table. It will support two players, each with 6 game buttons, a start button, a coin button, and an 8-way joystick. Some of you are probably guessing based on my button setup that it's a cab mainly for fighting games. Well your right, you caught me. Haha I'm a huge fan of street fighter and MvC games. But I will also be putting other games on my cab such as pac man, donkey kong, gauntlet, excite bike, etc
As far as software goes. I'm using MAME with the Mala frontend, on a windows XP operating system.
Here's my little shopping list I put together for anyone else who's interested in building a MAME cab:
Keep in mind I already had an old computer, an old monitor, and spare plywood/plexiglass
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I-PAC 2 : 40$
http://www.ultimarc.com/JShopServer/section.php?xSec=2
2 8-way Joysticks + microswitches: 10$
http://www.arcadespareparts.com/arcade_ ... 12056.html
6green 6blue 2yellow 3red buttons 10$
http://www.happmart.com/Pro_Details.asp ... x=2&sid=69
player 1 & 2 start 5$
http://www.xgaming.com/store/arcade-par ... t-buttons/
Total: 65$
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