They didn't so anything wrong per say on this MAME cabinet

I'm most surprised that they say they've reached an agreement to be able to include Hyperspin. I thought they had a super strict policy on this type of thing but I suppose money talks.
 
gumby...

Gumby actually makes some nicely built from scratch mames & pinmames. This one just happens to be very, very loud.

He does the art custom for people so guessing someone ordered this and he posted to ebay in case someone else wants the same design...
 
I'm most surprised that they say they've reached an agreement to be able to include Hyperspin. I thought they had a super strict policy on this type of thing but I suppose money talks.

They are probably just saying that to keep from getting flagged on ebay.
 
I can just about guarantee hyperspin and starwars are unauthorized on this machine. Lucas Arts is notorious in its protection of intellectual property.

38.5" wide needs a sliding glass door to get it in your house.

35,000+ games are certainly not authorized.

ETA: I just saw it doesn't come with ROMS "No Game ROMs or Emulator software is included with this game." .."Can Play Up To 35,000 Games See Us For Details!"
 
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Crapmame is single handedly responsible for a terrible Mame mistake that just will not die. That is the idea that 4-player machines are supposed to have angled sticks. On the page below he incorrectly calls out normal sticks as a mistake on a 4 player cabinet (saying they should be angled). Now 10 years later hundreds of people have scratch built 4 player cabinets with unusable player 3 and 4 stations, and angled sticks still turn up almost daily on BYOAC forum control panel layouts, and it is almost impossible to talk the people out of it, even though not even the people who did it that way think it is better (they seem to be split between admitting it is unusable and lying and saying it is "fine").

http://www.wickedretarded.com/~crapmame/30.html

Building a multi-thousand dollar product to display games made for a 4:3 aspect ratio, yet installing a 16:9 display. Granted you can't get a 4:3 monitor bigger than 27" anymore, but I am not sure I would even want one bigger than that shoehorned into a relatively normal sized cabinet.

Also, why does the control panel extend like 15" past the front of the cabinet? Even a machine with a big heavy CRT becomes a flip-over hazard with a panel like that. Since the LCD weighs 100 lbs less then that thing must be a safety nightmare. It would probably just take one little kid pulling himself up by the panel to flip it over.
 
What bugs me is that the artwork is way too busy and the buttons are too glowy. The thing sticks out like a sore thumb.
 
I like MAME, but hate non-arcade themes on games. Unrelated movies, sports, college and console themes all suck on arcade games.
 
mame in general...

I loved mame for a long time. In fact I built one of the very first mame cabs back in 2000. Problem is spending too much time skimming the list instead of playing.

Once I made a favorites folder it got better.

Now people who make mame cabs the biggest problem is trying to cram everything into one cab. Just overload.
 
Why does the description need to have such a big ass font?!?

Thanks, Jack and Jan.....my finger is tired from scrolling all the way to the bottom of this crap.
 
They get better and better the more games you take OFF the list.

I loved mame for a long time. In fact I built one of the very first mame cabs back in 2000. Problem is spending too much time skimming the list instead of playing.

Once I made a favorites folder it got better.

Now people who make mame cabs the biggest problem is trying to cram everything into one cab. Just overload.
 
I'm most surprised that they say they've reached an agreement to be able to include Hyperspin. I thought they had a super strict policy on this type of thing but I suppose money talks.

I can just about guarantee hyperspin and starwars are unauthorized on this machine. Lucas Arts is notorious in its protection of intellectual property.

38.5" wide needs a sliding glass door to get it in your house.

35,000+ games are certainly not authorized.

ETA: I just saw it doesn't come with ROMS "No Game ROMs or Emulator software is included with this game." .."Can Play Up To 35,000 Games See Us For Details!"

The husband and wife combo that do those are on the hyperspin forums. They have a sticky in the hyperpin cabinets forums for selling their locking bars. At one point they were selling their hyperpin shells. With all of that in the hyperspin forums I would expect they have the permission from them.

For the star wars yea I would say it isn't authorized. Past that they are not including the roms.

Personally I would love to have one of their hyperpin cabinets. For the mame cabinets I personally am not a big fan. Too many buttons. I also hate the 4way joystiq above the others. Doesn't really look usable.
 
Crapmame is single handedly responsible for a terrible Mame mistake that just will not die. That is the idea that 4-player machines are supposed to have angled sticks. On the page below he incorrectly calls out normal sticks as a mistake on a 4 player cabinet (saying they should be angled). Now 10 years later hundreds of people have scratch built 4 player cabinets with unusable player 3 and 4 stations, and angled sticks still turn up almost daily on BYOAC forum control panel layouts, and it is almost impossible to talk the people out of it, even though not even the people who did it that way think it is better (they seem to be split between admitting it is unusable and lying and saying it is "fine").

http://www.wickedretarded.com/~crapmame/30.html

What do you think about all the dedicated 4 player games with angled sticks? (NFL Blitz; Gauntlet; Gauntlet Legends, Gauntlet Dark Legacy, NBA Jam, TMNT, TMNT Turtles In Time, Simpsons, etc. every other 'official' 4 player game has angled sticks)
 
What do you think about all the dedicated 4 player games with angled sticks? (NFL Blitz; Gauntlet; Gauntlet Legends, Gauntlet Dark Legacy, NBA Jam, TMNT, TMNT Turtles In Time, Simpsons, etc. every other 'official' 4 player game has angled sticks)

Take a look at TMNT and Simpsons, the sticks aren't angled. Look at the bolts.
 
None of those games you mention have angled sticks, every single one of those has up, down, left, and right as the exact same direction for all 4 players.

However the button locations are at different angles depending on the player location.

What do you think about all the dedicated 4 player games with angled sticks? (NFL Blitz; Gauntlet; Gauntlet Legends, Gauntlet Dark Legacy, NBA Jam, TMNT, TMNT Turtles In Time, Simpsons, etc. every other 'official' 4 player game has angled sticks)
 
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