CL Mame FS. Now in handy, portable table top version.

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CL Mame FS. Now in handy, portable table top version.

Check out this handy 'little' number. Not mine.

It looks to be about couch size, though I have to admit it appears to be fairly tidy work.

http://austin.craigslist.org/sys/1460437530.html

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4-Player Arcade and classic system Emulator with a fully functional PC built right in.

Just set it on a coffee table, connect it to your TV, turn it on, start the emulator and you are gaming. No quarters Necessary!

Great for Game rooms, Families, Bars, parties, and anyone who has a favorite arcade or classic game.

This system comes with a fully functional PC built into the Arcade Panel itself, so it is a self-contained, portable system. All you need is a TV!

Arcade Panel Specs:
Measures 5'4" x 2' x 10" at the widest points
1st and 2nd players each have a start, coin, and 7 assignable buttons and an 8-way joystick
3rd and 4th players each have a start, coin, and 4 assignable buttons and an 8-way joystick
All buttons and joysticks are brand new industry standard Suzo-Happ controls. They are connected to an 4-player Ultimarc I-Pac via 16 gauge wire.
Information on the I-Pac can be found here http://www.ultimarc.com/ipac1.html
The panel itself is constructed of 3/4" medium density fiberboard that was painted with glossy black paint and coated with 3 coats of polyurethane to ensure a spill-safe surface

PC Specs:
AMD Athalon 64 3000+ processor with 160 GB hard drive and 1.5 GB of ram
ATI Radeon 9550 AGP Graphics card
DVD dual +/- RW disc drive and standard DVD reader drive
On-board wireless networking card and FireWire included
2 Red LED fans with Chrome fan guards
Windows XP Professional and Microsoft office suite installed

Emulators:
MAME (Arcade)
Project 64 (Nintendo 64)
Gens (Sega Genesis)
BGB (Gameboy)
JNES (Nintendo Entertainment System)
SNES9x (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)
Visual Boy Advance (Gameboy Advance)
Any other emulators you want can be added on your own, or I can add them for you for an additional (small) charge

Extras:
along with this machine, I am including the following:
Wireless Keyboard and Mouse
15' VGA cable with sound jack built in
full instructions on how to use the machine and install your own emulators

The machine is fully tested and works perfectly and can be a ton of fun! I have to sell it because I am a poor college kid and I need some quick cash. I built the machine myself and stand behind my work 100%. The machine is sold as-is, but I am not opposed to helping solve any problems you have with the machine or installing emulators over the phone. I doubt you will have any problems though as I have thoroughly tested the machine and all of the emulators.

Email me for more pictures and my phone number



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interesting, no doubt. But worth $1600? Hell no! For that price, I'd expect SOME sort of art. Possibly some button decals or something.

For a setup like this, I think the guy was on the right track, but to command that kind of price for this thing he should have wired in a LCD projector to throw the image onto a wall. Because it's fairly obvious that that is how this game should be played. I highly doubt people will be sitting right in front of a 19" TV with this monster.

My two cents.
 
..and if you should die suddenly, it doubles as a casket.
 
I was just going to post this.

It's bad enough when they ask outrageous prices for MAME'd cabs, but now they don't even include the cab...
 
Yea.... so I don't really see why this is here since MAME has little to do with restoring classic games to begin with but this isn't even an arcade machine.
 
..and if you should die suddenly, it doubles as a casket.

That was the 1st thing popped in my mind too, lol. What makes it worse other than size, you can't use it as a table when not in use. Sad that it is a beast. Looks like the guy put alot of effort into it.

Kevin
 
I actually like the idea.. but the execution is pretty bad. You don't need a CP that large, you don't need to even use a full size PC. Throw in a bare laptop MOBO and save tons of space. No giant heavy power supply to deal with, no pci-e or any other expansion or riser cards to deal with. I mean tons of space can be saved with decent laptop guts. Streamline that control panel and shrink it down, add some Artwork like someone else mentioned. Hell, even the idea of a cheap projector sounds cool although you would have some heat issues unless you created some very good ventilation not to mention the shaking from everyone jaring around the control panel as they played. I would skip the projector but I would think about maybe adding some nice folding legs to it. Not everyone is going to set that on a coffee table and scratch the hell out of it.
 
Wow.

It looks like they may have used the shell of a Fender Rhodes Electric Piano for that heap... (I can't quite tell from the photos.) If that is the case, they actually did gut a classic (from another realm) for that. MAMErs, do you know no bounds??
 
Yea.... so I don't really see why this is here since MAME has little to do with restoring classic games to begin with but this isn't even an arcade machine.

Last time I checked (every time, actually), MAME was *all* about classic games!

Want to see what the game "Ponpoko" is like before you spend $200 on it? Try it in MAME! Need a ROM image to re-burn your bad Donkey Kong chips? Use the MAME ROM files! The hard drive in your game just died and you can't find a replacement anywhere? Re-image another with the MAME CHD file!

MAME is an indispensable reference for classic game enthusiasts, containing ROM images, technical information, pictures of PCBs, control panels, cabinets and more. Why anyone even remotely interested in classic arcade games would think otherwise is puzzling.

The coffin-like MAME "cabinet" in the ad, however, is an abomination. ;)
 
Last time I checked (every time, actually), MAME was *all* about classic games!

Want to see what the game "Ponpoko" is like before you spend $200 on it? Try it in MAME! Need a ROM image to re-burn your bad Donkey Kong chips? Use the MAME ROM files! The hard drive in your game just died and you can't find a replacement anywhere? Re-image another with the MAME CHD file!

MAME is an indispensable reference for classic game enthusiasts, containing ROM images, technical information, pictures of PCBs, control panels, cabinets and more. Why anyone even remotely interested in classic arcade games would think otherwise is puzzling.

The coffin-like MAME "cabinet" in the ad, however, is an abomination. ;)

While your campaign for making others aware of the benefits of MAME is commendable, my post said that MAME had nothing to do with the RESTORATION of Classic Arcade games, since you know thats kind of the point of this here forum. Now we still get MAME posts here but atleast those are in Arcade cabinets, this is just a box on the floor with arcade controls. Arguing about this is pointless but I just want to clear that up for you. :)
 
While your campaign for making others aware of the benefits of MAME is commendable, my post said that MAME had nothing to do with the RESTORATION of Classic Arcade games, since you know thats kind of the point of this here forum. Now we still get MAME posts here but atleast those are in Arcade cabinets, this is just a box on the floor with arcade controls. Arguing about this is pointless but I just want to clear that up for you. :)

This forum is General Arcade and Videogame Discussion. I see no harm in posting this thread here, as it is just a fun little poke at someody's epic fail for a video game. We see this all the time here. The thread will die soon enough. Now, if this piece of crap control panel was placed in the "restoration" forum, then somebody would have issues.
 
While your campaign for making others aware of the benefits of MAME is commendable, my post said that MAME had nothing to do with the RESTORATION of Classic Arcade games, since you know thats kind of the point of this here forum. Now we still get MAME posts here but atleast those are in Arcade cabinets, this is just a box on the floor with arcade controls. Arguing about this is pointless but I just want to clear that up for you. :)

But again... this here forum is NOT about Classic Arcade RESTORATION... it has it's own forum... get with the program. :cool:
 
While your campaign for making others aware of the benefits of MAME is commendable, my post said that MAME had nothing to do with the RESTORATION of Classic Arcade games, since you know thats kind of the point of this here forum. Now we still get MAME posts here but atleast those are in Arcade cabinets, this is just a box on the floor with arcade controls. Arguing about this is pointless but I just want to clear that up for you. :)

I suppose we have different ideas of restoration then, as I consider repair of a game part of the restoration process, and two of the points I made pertained to ROM and hard drive repair from MAME files.

However, as others have pointed out, this is the "General Arcade and Videogame Discussions" forum, and I quite enjoy reading about almost anything having to do with arcade games. That includes MAME, grails, hellcades and even Star Wars chairs. :eek:
 
It's is an interesting design, but it looks like most of the size is devoted to the controls. I think you could make something significantly smaller if you pulled the controls off and made them as plug-ins. I like the projector idea. I'll probably steal some of those ideas when I put my party MAME together.

I've been trying to justify building a MAME box out of one of my gutted cabinets, but building a portable box that I can just shove in a closet when it is not needed has some serious appeal.

ken
 
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