Anyone else have issues with mixing multi's w/dedicated?

[fatherpain]

Multi's are a necessity for me to keep the arcade fresh. I consider my Candy Cabs to be multicades in the respect I can put just about any pcb in there...and its easy to swap games on the fly. Collecting pcbs is abit pricier than having a true multicade but at least its still the original game code being played, not an emulation.

I also have multi's out operating out of the following dedicated cabs:

SmashTV: w/Robotron, Total Carnage... Will be adding Timber
Punchout: will be adding Super Punchout
Qbert: Qbert... will be adding the multiQbert kit
Missile Command: Also has Super Missile Attack
Millipede: with Multipede kit
Assault: with Assault/+
Pole Position: with PP1 and PP2
Tempest: with tubes
Terminator 2: will investigate what itd take to add revolution X
Frontline: will investigate what itd take to add Wild Western

That said I totally understand the reasons for having a true multicade or mame machine in the mix. Too many games, not enough space.

Tom

 

[joeycuda]

Just put your multis in restored dedicated cabinets. That's how I do mine. My multi-Williams is inside of a restored Joust cabinet, and fits right in with my dedicated Moon Patrol. I'll be doing the same with my 60 in 1 in a restored Pac cabinet. My Q-bert is in a restored dedicated machine but it also runs Mike Doyle's multi Qbert kit. I think it depends on how the multi is treated. If it's just a 60 in 1 thrown into a Centuri cab painted black and has that awful Arcadeshop multicade art on it then I could see the problem.

I agree 100%! You get the aesthetics of the vintage cabinet, but the flexibility of a multigame, if you desire.

 

[tron guy]

frizz I love your arcade brother, awesome!

I can't wait to restore my pac man cab and throw the 96 in 1 in there. This type of multi makes awesome sense to me. Why would anyone want a ms pac and a pac ( I wouldn't I should say).

I don't think the 60 in 1's are that cool honestly, though when I build them I really get into a different game each time, and it makes me want to by an original. Hence the congo bongo and I am getting decent at it all of a sudden.

 

[khabbi]

I love classics and prefer all classics (especially Vectors) in my collection, but I do have a multi that I keep in my lineup specifically for guests- I have a Arcade Legends 2 machine, and while I think the cab sticks out like a sore thumb, at least it's a nice, clean cab. And it has some games I like on it, for example Joust, Robotron, missile command, jungle hunt, moon patrol, food fight, zookepper, and so many more fun titles.

I have thought long and hard about removing it to add another vector in the main arcade, but the 130+ games that it has keeps people busy on it, so it stays. It's funny how someone will come into my arcade and pass up my Dedicated Major havoc or Quantum only to go over to my multi and play puzzle bobble or something It's all good though, to me it's all about people just having fun!

 

[gutsman004]

Having every game I want as an original dedicated machine just isn't realistic due to time, space, and money. Mixing in some multi-games to combine several games into one cabinet just makes sense. I'd rather play them that way than do without.

+1. I'd love to have a huge room full of my favorite dedicated machines but right now it's just not feasible for a variety of reasons,so definitely one and maybe two of my project cabs will be made into mame or multi machines. Of course,I won't be doing anything crazy like butchering the cp and putting an ass-ton of buttons on it.

 

[bheineck]

Just put multis on one side and dedicated cabs on the other. When you turn around you won't see the other side. Just keep your head down when you walk in and out down the middle.

 

[JamBurglar]

Using dedicated cabs is cool, but the way I see it, it's got to be non-destructive. I hate to see real games destroyed for some 52,000-in-1 shit-cade. People use the "nobody really remembers exactly how the old game was so it's okay that it's all fucked up and not the same" argument. It's kind of weird to me. 99/100 people woudn't know the difference between the real thing and a balsawood box with a Nintendo ducttaped in it and Atari 2600 Pac Man sounds so why not do that?

The cool thing about using the real cabs is that it also allows you to have the real controls, which is huge, but that does limit the amount of games you can have in a cabinet.

The only other big gripe I have with multis is that the ones that play the older classics lack the SOUND of the classics. A good many of those older boards used analog sound and the multi-versions, which all use digital sounds, just don't sound right.

Multiple Original boards + Original Cabinet = good compromize between space and gameplay.

It is crazy to me that a multi-cade is worth more than a real classic. It's the mark of people's ignorance.