Heavy Barrel and Mame?

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I did read from someone that they Mamed a Heavy Barrel or Ikari Warriors. We don't all have the luxury of owning 50+ arcade cabinets. I'm looking at 10 to 15 max so I thought Pick up a local Heavy Barrel and Mame it to get the other like games. My question is can this be done relatively easy(i'm a newbie) and starting with the Heavy Barrel is this a sound idea? Honest opinions are appreciated. It works perfectly and what do you think a fair price is for and 8 out of 10 Heavy Barrel? thx
 
Although you won't get a lot of support for Mame-ing a working machine, the LS-30's work with MAME. You need a Mechanical Rotary Joystick Interface. Ultimarc sells one, I have an older (not the Ultimarc) encoder and haven't had any problems with it.

Here are two options if you decide to stick with original hardware:
1. I believe all of the rotary games are jamma, and you could swap out the boards pretty easily when you want to change games.
2. Or you could get a jamma-switcher and have all the boards in the cabinet. See this thread about a multi rotary cabinet.
 
thx for the info. I know most Klover's are against it and I can understand their reasons. I did read some posts about it...maybe I'll dig a little more into it.
 
thx for the info. I know most Klover's are against it and I can understand their reasons. I did read some posts about it...maybe I'll dig a little more into it.

against what? allowing you to do whatever you want with your own property? they can shove it. it's not even one of the "precious classics" of the 1981-1984 holy era. makes me want to set a HUO red donkey kong on fire and film it.

be aware that different games utilized different types of rotary sticks. but perhaps mame's interface has taken this into account. i'd be curious if you can play the old taito games properly like Front Line, Wild Western and Tin Star.
 
it's not even one of the "precious classics" of the 1981-1984 holy era.

I agree with you but, just a point of order: back in the 90s, for instance, the precious classics of 1981-1984 weren't "the precious classics of 1981-1984".

If the OP has enough room for 10-15 games, why not MAME a generic cabinet?

OP: You could install rotaries on that, too. :)
 
Hey Pook, I could mame a generic cab but I am a newbie. I Know of 2 people that might have some spare time to help but I am trying to make this as ez as possible. If I don't mame I'm ok with having several games (boards) to interchange.
 
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