MAME cabinets?

by **Mugzy** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 4:38 pm

Just wondering how many of you out there have a mame cabinet.

I have always wanted to set one up, but never had the time/space/cash to get it done.

Recently inheareted one when a good friend of mine was lost to cancer.

I am having fun reverse engineering it trying to figure out how everything works

I will post pics later.

FYI: For anyone that has no clue what I am talking about...

MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with an arcade game's data files (ROMs), MAME will more or less faithfully reproduce that game on a PC. MAME can currently emulate over 2600 unique (and over 4600 in total) classic arcade video games from the three decades of video games - '70s, '80s and '90s, and some from the current millennium.

MAME's purpose is to preserve these decades of video-game history. As gaming technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents these important "vintage" games from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions, thanks to the talent of programmers from the MAME team and from other contributors. Being able to play the games is just a nice side-effect, which doesn't happen all the time. MAME strives for emulating the games faithfully.

With enough time/cash, you can put a PC running MAME into an arcade cabinet and really re-live the arcade days.

by **Folic_Acid** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 4:54 pm

I'd love to have a MAME cabinet, but definitely don't have the technical know-how or $$ to set one up. I guess I'll just have to stick with playing it on the regular comp.

I would like to see some pics of yours, though!

by **Tommy Boy** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:11 pm

First and foremost, sorry to hear about your loss.

MAME sounds cool. I have never heard of it before,, but I too would love to see some pics.

Good luck!

by **DocTrebor** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:50 pm

I tried dling a mame emulator but could never find/get any roms to work....what id do for the old school x-men arcade on my laptop for when im bored.....

by **Chacal** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 11:49 pm

A friend of mine built one using an Xbox with Linux on it

, emulator software and hundreds of ROMs. He bought an arcade cabinet with real arcade controls on it.

by **Tommy Boy** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 2:58 pm

any photos? You guys seem to know a lot about this. I would love to see one.

by **SkiloDog2000** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 4:31 pm

seems like a fun idea
you can put linux on an xbox?
that does make sense doesent it

by **Chacal** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 5:18 pm

It's kinda ironic, isn't it?

I'm told Microsoft doesn't like it AT ALL.

by **Jeffro** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 5:37 pm

Originally posted by Chacal
It's kinda ironic, isn't it?

I'm told Microsoft doesn't like it AT ALL.

Oh, boo hoo for microsoft...

WTF are they going to do about it?

by **-HaVoC-** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 8:31 pm

Yeah I've had some good fun with mame and a bunch of roms. The hardest part though was that every time they released a new version of the emulator the roms wouldn't work with it so you had to dl them again. Not to mention Capcom had a few large law suits in the wings and after that the rom sites dried up.

I have a few versions of the emulator archived along with quite a few roms. Good stuff.

Now thanks to the persistence of the human driven internet it still lives

by **SkiloDog2000** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 8:36 pm

Horray!

by **Rotoman** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 2:30 pm

I have a MAME cabinet I built myself that I just finished last month. Its nothing too special. Didn't take much money (the computer was an old one I had lying around). Probably $100 in hardware from Home Depot and another $150 for the controls, plexiglass, and other misc. It looks great and plays about 5100 games. I'm going to replace the controls next year with something that has a spinner and a trackball but for now this works. Everyone that sees it loves it. Makes a nice addition to my media room.

by **Hunter/Killer** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 2:48 pm

Ya MAME is cool. Not hard to make. It is really a PC in an arcade cabinet. Do Google searches for sites like this
http://www.mame.net/
There are plenty out there that tell you how to make them.

I actually prefer the real games and collect pinballs and arcade games. I prefer the originals because of the artworks. They just look so much nicer when you have a line of restored pins and arcades.

If you don’t have room and still want arcade games MAME is the way to go.

by **DocTrebor** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:06 pm

where can i get roms that work! they're all gone

by **Jeffro** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:29 pm

http://www.mame.dk

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