MAME-ing an Asteroids Deluxe...

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NOT ME!!!

I am looking for an AD and stumbled across this guys blog about wanting to MAME (or maim if you will) it. I found a particular paragraph (see below) interesting with his take on the arcade collecting community...

That forum (coinopspace.org but could have easily been KLOV), it turns out, is one of those self-selecting, self-reinforcing zealotry hotbed communities, where their holy crusade is that original coin-op games are sacred and must be preserved in their original form. Many of these guys (and I'm fairly sure that is not a generic gender usage, I haven't seen any sign of any females there) have a dozen or more arcade games in their garages, and spend more time on repair, refurbishment, and restoration than playing them. They treat the idea of building a MAME system inside a real arcade game cabinet like I'm proposing painting poker-playing dogs at the Last Supper. It's hard to exaggerate their fervor for comic effect without them topping the exaggerated fervor with the real stuff. I wonder if one day there will be people scrounging parts to preserve original iPhones with their original software, and howling at people that use them as kitschy retro cases for their personal supercomputers.

The rest can be read here... http://hawthornthistleberry.blogspot.com/2009/11/asteroids-deluxe-repair.html

- Mike
 
I agree with his thoughts about people flipping out at even the hint of MAME-ing a classic. I think, when done right, it can be very cool. Most people tend to only think of the hellcades when someone brings up MAME and nothing else.

However, I think he was too quick to jump up on his soapbox to whine about the classic arcade guys, and didn't pay attention to the fact what they we're saying was legitimate. An Asteriods Deluxe is a shitty candidate for a MAME, it's a vector monitor and there's not a whole lot of real estate on the CP.
 
The problem with mame cabs convertion is not the fact that they are converting old cabs.. The problem is that they all look like tacky piece of garbage.

I have yet to see one mame cab that does not look awful. They always mess up something, or they always cheapen out somewhere.

Oh god, and lets not forget the idiots who put 12309 buttons, 3 steering wheels and 2 trackballs on the cpo. They get so excited at the prospect of being able to play 102912390 games for free that they dont stop to think that it might look like total garbage.
 
One look at this guy and it all makes sense...

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NOT ME!!!

I am looking for an AD and stumbled across this guys blog about wanting to MAME (or maim if you will) it. I found a particular paragraph (see below) interesting with his take on the arcade collecting community...

That forum (coinopspace.org but could have easily been KLOV), it turns out, is one of those self-selecting, self-reinforcing zealotry hotbed communities, where their holy crusade is that original coin-op games are sacred and must be preserved in their original form. Many of these guys (and I'm fairly sure that is not a generic gender usage, I haven't seen any sign of any females there) have a dozen or more arcade games in their garages, and spend more time on repair, refurbishment, and restoration than playing them. They treat the idea of building a MAME system inside a real arcade game cabinet like I'm proposing painting poker-playing dogs at the Last Supper. It's hard to exaggerate their fervor for comic effect without them topping the exaggerated fervor with the real stuff. I wonder if one day there will be people scrounging parts to preserve original iPhones with their original software, and howling at people that use them as kitschy retro cases for their personal supercomputers.

The rest can be read here... http://hawthornthistleberry.blogspot.com/2009/11/asteroids-deluxe-repair.html

- Mike

I find it funny when people act like our hobby is the only one that does this. Other hobbies are similar... antique collectors like things original, it makes the item worth more. Car collectors, etc are the same.
 
NOT ME!!!

I am looking for an AD and stumbled across this guys blog about wanting to MAME (or maim if you will) it. I found a particular paragraph (see below) interesting with his take on the arcade collecting community...

That forum (coinopspace.org but could have easily been KLOV), it turns out, is one of those self-selecting, self-reinforcing zealotry hotbed communities, where their holy crusade is that original coin-op games are sacred and must be preserved in their original form. Many of these guys (and I'm fairly sure that is not a generic gender usage, I haven't seen any sign of any females there) have a dozen or more arcade games in their garages, and spend more time on repair, refurbishment, and restoration than playing them. They treat the idea of building a MAME system inside a real arcade game cabinet like I'm proposing painting poker-playing dogs at the Last Supper. It's hard to exaggerate their fervor for comic effect without them topping the exaggerated fervor with the real stuff. I wonder if one day there will be people scrounging parts to preserve original iPhones with their original software, and howling at people that use them as kitschy retro cases for their personal supercomputers.

The rest can be read here... http://hawthornthistleberry.blogspot.com/2009/11/asteroids-deluxe-repair.html

- Mike

1998 called. It wants it's web design back.

I'm sure this guy will be posting in this thread soon. That's what usually happens. Should be interesting...
 
he has no information on us other then a few threads of Hellcade's its kind of sad to assume of that, OF COURSE we like our original cabinets and games. Wouldn't a car collector like the original motor in a collectors car? Or would they mind if i just threw in a cheap motor from china. Why would he take the time to post that even? lol Oh well, it isn't sack religous for a MAME creation, we just wish people wouldn't destroy the original game in the process. Quote and respond if you have a MAME cabinet that is pretty lookin'
 
you know, he's probably the same person that would buy one of those shittastic target multi games and love the hell out of it.
 
Overall I like Mame but it still confuses me why folks convert cabinets at all. Just build a new one from the ground up that is purpose built to accommodate your mame machine or convert one of those crumby ticket dispensing games of some sort.

That being said I had the chance to play Sinistar for the first time in years on a real machine and I'm sad to say that Mame plays nothing like the real dedicated machine. So while I'll keep my Mame machine (that I built from scratch) I'm a recent convert to the dedicated cabinets being alot better...
 
Ok, here's mine...

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Done. ;)
That's a really nice looking mame cab. I personally like the idea of salvaging a good looking but empty cabinet for a mame machine.

Destroying a working or easily fixed one to make one, would be a damn shame though IMO.
 
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