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| Dazz:
Aggie House.... Fellow Texan? Not a bad looking cab there. My son was 3 when I built my cabinet 5 years ago. He's been playing arcade games on my cabinet since then and has never stopped. He's played and enjoys more classic games than people 4 times his age. My 8 year old son and 12 year old daughter have Frogger competitions all the time. If I were you; I'd seriously re-consider doing the coin/credit thing. I had mine setup that way to use tokens and it got old fast. While coins can still be entered for credits on my cabinet; I still have a button combination via my IPAC4 that is just much better than coins. |
| jtfields:
Yep, an Aggie... My son has dropped his Wii and only wants to play on the cabinet. Not sure how long that will last. I'll keep your suggestion about the coin door in mind. I wanted to hook it up for a couple of reasons. First, of course, is authenticity (that true "arcade feel".) But secondly, me and the wife were thinking it might be a good way to control the kids playing time. "Here's eight quarters (or tokens) son, when their gone it's time to get off." Right now we use the timer on the wireless sensor bar to monitor the Wii. My wife gets concerned that their brains will turn to mush if they spend hours playing video games. Me, I'm not as worried as her. That's what I did when I was a kid. By the way, I noticed you are on the HyperSpin team. I just learned of that FE the other day. I may give it a go. I took some more pictures of the inside and stuff last night. It was late though so I'll try and post them tonight. |
| drventure:
Nice. Yeah, a bigger screen, maybe some side art, a new marquee, you'd have a sweet machine for not a lot of cash. The good thing is, all those bits are pretty easy to come by and install. I hear you with the coin door. I went the "coin button" route, and, while it IS convenient, you do loose a little of the arcade feel. But then, my cab is SOOOO not authentic arcade that I guess it shouldn't really matter :) |
| jtfields:
A few more pics... |
| jtfields:
Posted this question in the software forum but haven't gotten much in the way of reads so I thought I'd add it to this thread as well since it refers to this cab. Currently the PC in the cab is running Windows 2000 and MAME32 .118. I plan on updating it soon when I get the chance and at that point will install a front end designed for a cab (haven't decided yet but leaning towards HyperSpin.) I'm just trying to decide if I want to keep the PC it came with (probably make a couple of ugrades to it such as RAM and a larger hard drive) or build a new one for it.. Until then I'm playing with it as is. Anyway, the controls are configured so that if I press player 1 and 2 start buttons simultaneously it's the same as pressing ESC. When I'm playing a game in MAME32 pressing ESC (player 1 and 2 simultaneoulsy) exits the game currently playing and takes me back to the MAME32 interface to select another game. However, I cannot seem to exit MAME32 itself back to Windows. The Windows bar at the top that would normally have the minimize and exit buttons in the top right hand corner are gone. The normal "File, Edit, View..." type menus that are usually in the upper left are missing too. I asked the guy that I bought it from about it and he just said that the menu bar and the minimize, maximize and exit buttons used to be there but his kids did something to it at some point and they vanished. He didn't know how to exit either. The only way I know how to exit is to hit the power button (which is configured to shut down the PC) and then power back up to Windows. Any help is appreciated and sorry if this is a total noob question. |
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