Multi-arcade boards

BeagleBoy

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I've got a beat-up Defender cabinet that someone converted into a mame machine at some point. They didn't hack up the cabinet, so I plan on restoring it to some semblance of Defenderness. Regardless, for now at least, I'd like to keep it as a horizontal multigame. What are my best options? Keep it as a mame machine, but replace the 19" monitor with an arcade monitor? Get a multigame board?

If I go the multigame route, are any of the boards better than any others? I don't want to limit myself to just Williams games.

Thoughts?

-Jim
 
How far gone does it look? Does it have some beastly flightdeck control panel on it or something?

To be honest, if it were me I'd just leave it a MAME. I mean why not? That would basically just be a multi board that you'd put into it anyways, right? Just only run roms for games that make sense. Don't bother making a Street Fighter Layout, make it run Williams stuff, then get a multi-williams cpo.
 
How far gone does it look? Does it have some beastly flightdeck control panel on it or something?

It's got two control panels, one with a defender layout (Willis CPO), and another with a two-stick layout that looks like this :eek::
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I suppose I could just leave the computer monitor in it, but it sticks out the back of the cabinet by about 3-4 inches. I'd rather put an arcade monitor in there, but then I've got the added hassle of getting the computer to output 15KHz.

Oh, and the MAME pc that came with it is toast, so that's some extra effort.

For those of you who do the multi-williams control panel layout, how well does Defender work with an 8-way joystick? Any issues?

-Jim
 
ive seen computer vid cards that are for hooking a PC to an arcade monitor. considering the price of arcade monitors to PC monitors and if your going to be running mame anyway id probably stick with a pc monitor thats a better fit
 
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