Converting a empty cabinet to run mame

TonyH

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I have a friend at work that wants to take a empty cabinet I have and put a computer in it and run mame. I only have dedicated cabinets and as dumb as this sounds I have no idea how to take the keyboard and convert that to reg controls if this is even possible? Also were would he get a down loadable copy or what he needs to run mame? Its not my project but I know every morning this will come up. For what its worth he has his eye on a striped pole position cabinet/Bally demo derby/very bad robotron jama conversion all striped to make others live again so nothing is getting cannibalized for this project. Is any of them better for what he is doing?
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Its harder and more expensive than it seems. Thats all I can say.

Thats what I told him its for him and his son i don't think either one of them cares about the classics. Today I was finishing up my star wars he played a quick game and said man I will take my x box over this then he ask about the junk cabinets I had seemed a little odd but what ever I guess.
 
Probably the Robotron. The PP wont be good at all or the DD. If you want feel free to PM me and I can give you my list of stuff for the conversion and any questions. Don't upset the "Classic Gods" (Just a Joke).


Toby
 
I have a friend at work that wants to take a empty cabinet I have and put a computer in it and run mame. I only have dedicated cabinets and as dumb as this sounds I have no idea how to take the keyboard and convert that to reg controls if this is even possible? Also were would he get a down loadable copy or what he needs to run mame? Its not my project but I know every morning this will come up. For what its worth he has his eye on a striped pole position cabinet/Bally demo derby/very bad robotron jama conversion all striped to make others live again so nothing is getting cannibalized for this project. Is any of them better for what he is doing?
Thanks

Robotron cabinet is your best bet - 2 players, 6 buttons each and no trackball.
You can get every freaking MAME game from http://pleasuredome.org.uk
The controls can be run off a few items out there. IPAC2 is IMHo the best.
Buy 2 8way HAPP ultimate sticks.

Yes you use a program called MAME. Many flavors to choose from. I prefer MAMEUI.
64bit version has much better performance but you need a 64 bit capable processor.
Front end softwares - once again alot of them. Malah, MAMEWAH, AtomicFE, Hyperspin. All free

Cheapest thing for a monitor is to slap a tv in the cabinet and buy a video card with s-video outputs.
 
give him a link to arcadecontrols.com, and leave it to him. If you are not interested in it, you will definitely not want to figure everything out for him. It can be fairly simple to put together, but it will require a good time commitment to figure everything out.
 
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