Question: What is the best ?-in-1?

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my question is what is the best multigame pcb that you guys have found? (for best playing and reliablity)

might want to get a horizontal fighting multigame from someone besides the arcadeshops pcbs! i know there are a few out there but not sure what's good.

mainly looking at one that has the Street Fighters, Aero Fighters, MKs, maybe Bad Dudes kinda stuff on them.

any opinions welcome
thanks!
 
Simple answer - MAME.

Yeah, +1. The multi's that have the games your asking about are all cheap ass chinese made PC's in a compact little piece of crap design. Your much better off building a MAME PC for this app.

If you were asking about playing classics on a multi board I'd vote for the Arcadeshop board.

Matt
 
I think he's looking for a simple plug and play pcb for his arcade cabinet. I don't think he want's to turn his cabinet into a computer in a box. Besides he can already play mame right now.
 
I been looking for one for a while now, once I figure out my jamma wiring then I am gonna order one. I looked at jammaboards.com 1xxx in 1, and it has so many games and aparently if you upgrade the board with the bigger hard drive they run pretty close to the originals, However thats like 400$.. Then theres the Blue Elf boards I am trying to learn more about, 108in1 is like 150 shipped from Nixs on here. Has everything you just mentioned except MK. The only multi I have seen with MK was the jammaboards one.
 
yeah im trying not to put a mame game together and figured one of those pcbs out now would work well in a jamma arcade cab! maybe there's not then???

just too much configuring with mame i think for each game and don't really want 1000 games in 1, maybe just like 30 or something i guess....
 
The basic issue is that 99% of the ones out there are just mame on a chip, rewritten for whatever processor they're using (seems mostly ARM) and poorly fabricated. Really cheap parts and manufacturing results in shaky performance, especially when you factor in the rewritten mame for that processor. The only one I've seen that uses real hardware is the CPS 18-1 which are hard to find and only have some of the games you're looking for. I've been looking for one myself, but they all seem pretty sketchy performance-wise. Hopefully someone will pipe up and correct me, I'd love a good one.
 
yeah the only thing that i remotely like as far as a frontend/menu is the Arcadeshops programmable pcb but they don't have the fighters on them just older classics.
 
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