so, ever seen a multicade that looked good?

[tomdotcom]

Just put mame into your startup folder. But get a nice looking frontend for Mame. Ie. MALA, hyperspin, etc

how do you guys get it so your PC opens right into MAME when you turn it on? when i turn my cab on i have to click mam32 on the desk top and then another menue pops up. how do i get that cool full screen display going?

 

[JeffC]

Capcom Anthology - Running a Capcom CPS2 17-in-1 board.

AWESOME - Man, I'd love to have something exactly like this. Been trying to figure out how I can fill the Street Fighter void in my collection; but I never wanted to commit to a single version.

This is really nice; It looks like a dynamo, but what is the story with the art? Is Capcom Anthology a manufactured game, or is this custom?

 

[gozer5454]

AWESOME - Man, I'd love to have something exactly like this. Been trying to figure out how I can fill the Street Fighter void in my collection; but I never wanted to commit to a single version.

This is really nice; It looks like a dynamo, but what is the story with the art? Is Capcom Anthology a manufactured game, or is this custom?

Man, I love that thing too. It's all his own custom spin on the arts based off of the diamond plate cpo IIRC. Believe he had a thread about it a while ago...

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=99944&highlight=capcom+anthology

 

[mikehawk]

I was thinking of building one of these as a little side project. Still kind of green to the whole mame thing. Are these games ran by a PC???

 

[gozer5454]

I was thinking of building one of these as a little side project. Still kind of green to the whole mame thing. Are these games ran by a PC???

Many of these shown are "multi" jamma boards. Some shown are run on PCs. To each, his own.

 

[armi0024]

I was pretty proud of this one

 

[OregonPacman]

This is the multi I was talking about earlier. Its the first one that I built. It was a NEO GEO when I got to it. The sides were blue and front was black. It had some minor gouges and whatnot that got filled with bondo. I am no painting master by any means but I think I did pretty well. The thing got completely stripped down and ended up with new paint, t-molding, marquee, CPO, and 9-in-1 PCB. The only parts that weren't repainted that could have been were the coin door and marquee brackets. The monitor glass stayed the same and I think the JAMMA harness and power supply were reused. I believe the monitor got capped but I don't remember for sure. This sold for $2000 back in '03 when you could get that much for them. Its been a long time since I have done one of these and I wouldn't mind trying again. I'm not sure if its something that I would want to own, though. I might want a cocktail multi but its a moot point, since I'm broke anyway


Edit: IIRC the PCB had DK, DK Jr., Pac, Ms. Pac and Jr. Pac. I don't remember what the other games were. It had an original Pac joystick in it so the Pac series played pretty much dead on. The DKs didn't have quite the same gameplay feel to them, though.

 

[FrizzleFried]

Man, I love that thing too. It's all his own custom spin on the arts based off of the diamond plate cpo IIRC. Believe he had a thread about it a while ago...

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=99944&highlight=capcom+anthology

Yup... all custom (save for the NOS Diamondplate CPO)...

Thanks guys. I appreciate the comments.

 

[Tonym]

my mame is basically just a computer and a crt monitor disguised inside an original arcade cab, and then the buttons are wired into a usb keyboard encoder that assigns the arcade buttons as keyboard keys and then you can may each key to a button in the options menu

 

[Dr. Morbis]

my mame is basically just a computer and a crt monitor disguised inside an original arcade cab, and then the buttons are wired into a usb keyboard encoder that assigns the arcade buttons as keyboard keys and then you can may each key to a button in the options menu

Yeah my MAME cab is the same: just a regular candy cab with no cosmetic hacks or differences at all. Without booting it up, there's no way of even telling that there's a computer in there...

 

[sconfu]

Saved a Super Pac from the trash, It came to me as a VS TOP GUN in forest green.

 

[MadPerry]

I'm a bit nervous posting these here, for fear of wrath from purists. here goes anyways. The cocktail table is obviously a missile command. it's completely intact and operational. it also has 2 control panels in the vertical setting and a 60-in-1. It has a 3-way switch to switch between one or the other.

The third pic is an xbox based cab on the left, and a mame cab on the right. Fairly generic and that is how I prefer those 2.

 

[gozer5454]

I'm a bit nervous posting these here, for fear of wrath from purists. here goes anyways. The cocktail table is obviously a missile command. it's completely intact and operational. it also has 2 control panels in the vertical setting and a 60-in-1. It has a 3-way switch to switch between one or the other.

The third pic is an xbox based cab on the left, and a mame cab on the right. Fairly generic and that is how I prefer those 2.

I really like both the uprights there. Nice and clean. I'm not too into the marquees though. If you ever got the cash, you should do some custom marquees of your own design up in those. Good job.

 

[bradd]

I built this mame cab from scratch and love the way it turned out. I always liked sf2 so i went with a street fighter theme. It has a working coin door and an instructional card, it looks like the real thing.

very nice. i like the fact that you didnt use some giant oversized control panel. yes! grown men without personal space issues can play a game together without a CP the size of the king's dinner table.

 

[SRW]

I think my Time Machine looks really cool!

 

[smalltownguy2]

I built a 60 in 1 out of a Nintendo Playchoice Single that didn't turn out to bad. I built it for Bongoben as part of a trade for a pin that he was looking to move.

I'd do it again....

 

[gozer5454]

Playchoice-60. That's awesome. Nice trackball placement too.

 

[pookdolie]

I'm a bit nervous posting these here, for fear of wrath from purists. here goes anyways. The cocktail table is obviously a missile command. it's completely intact and operational. it also has 2 control panels in the vertical setting and a 60-in-1. It has a 3-way switch to switch between one or the other.

The third pic is an xbox based cab on the left, and a mame cab on the right. Fairly generic and that is how I prefer those 2.

Your uprights are clean and straightforward; I like them.

The cocktail...umm...your uprights are clean and straightforward!

I built a 60 in 1 out of a Nintendo Playchoice Single that didn't turn out to bad. I built it for Bongoben as part of a trade for a pin that he was looking to move.

I'd do it again....

That looks pretty nifty.

 

[dj dns]

Here are a few I've done. 4 of the 5 machines were already converted to jamma with a lame game when I got them.
1. Multi-Taito (in my collection)
2. New arcadeshop multicade (in my collection)
3. 60 in 1 Donkey Kong Jr (sold)
4. 60 in 1 Galaga Reunion cab (was in my collection, then sold it)
5. Ms Pacman 60 in 1 (sold)

like the rest of you id prefer to have original games rather then a mame system, but im wondering if you guys have ever seen a decent multicade and said to your self "ehh, that one gets a pass" ?

ive been browsing a few pics on the web and it seems like a very rare animal. people just go so over board it doesnt even look like an arcade game, just a huge cab covered in buttons, joysticks and horrible art...

 

[Wolfinator]

A buddy of mine made this mini-mame cab...