Anybody buy one of those Gameboxes a few years ago?

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Anybody buy one of those Gameboxes a few years ago?

They were in red or black metal casing.
They were produced from the years rough guess 2008 to maybe 2016?
AKa as Redbox they were listed as say 300-2000 games in one.
Don't appear very powerful but they are capable of running most of the solid state mame library decently.

Anyways I've had some time AND torn one of mine apart and here what I've found.

I'm sure they piece these together out of whatever they get their hands on but here's my info

Mine is a 450-1

It's basically a pc (prob a no name chinese motherboard) connected to a knockoff j-i-pac

It runs advance mame in pure dos

Think they're Intel P3 based haven't got that far yet, mine runs around 900mhz

256mb Sdram, I upgraded mine to 500mb and it runs much better

You can read the hard drive but its E(nchanced)IDE (these spin at 7800 rpm) they aren't compatible with some computers or connectors so that's why some people thought they were not readable.

Mine is 40gb with only roughly 4gb of it being used.

You can upgrade/change out the games but they have to be Mame 0.0106 also the system uses games lists so you'll need to upgrade that as well.

You can connect a keyboard to it and press tab just like any version of Mame and adjust advanced settings.

Easy fixes
Reset the ram and power supply they come loose easily and makes the system appear dead

Cheap power supplies and in hard to find micro atx form factor

I have been able to clone the hard drive

More to follow if anybody's interested and when I have time

Next:
Run the system on CF and then totally redo the system and games
 
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