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Edwards80:
I'll be putting console emulators in my cab, purely because some games suit an arcade stick & buttons. After all a lot of console/computer games were influenced by arcade games and weren't ports. Quite a few scrolling shoot-em-ups on the Amiga spring to mind.

Obviously if its a choice between playing the Arcade release of something or playing a console port, the original is the only choice.

Some console games would just feel odd without a control pad though!
scept1c:
I preferred to build the CP myself, it's cheaper and no one can know what you want better than yo do.
XtraSmiley:
Nice looking cab guy.  One thing I will add is that there are a few home emulated games that use 6 buttons on player 3-4 (hmm, at least I think there were...) so at least you can play those games with Hyperspin.

As for the OP, I have both home built systems and purchased ones (Slikstik) and they both have their advantages and disadvantages.  I say go the purchase route if you don't want to do the work.  THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS, contrary to what many on these forums make you feel.

BYOACers, remember, part of the BYO also applies to software, so there is nothing wrong with coming here and asking for help/price comparisons on the hardware side before going on to the software side.

Remember, we're a friendly community, here to help, right?

EDIT:  Wow, that took awhile to appear, glitch!  Anway, yes it has been stated about the home systems and extra buttons, but anyway, good luck with your decision!
Epyx:

--- Quote ---I don't really get the logic here... you mean they weren't old enough to go to arcades?  Let's be honest here, by the time a lot of these games were put on playchoice machines they were vastly more popular on the home NES console... the percentage of people playing a lot of these on an arcade machine vs at home is probably tiny (not saying all, just many).  Plus- 54 games is such a tiny percentage of the overall library for nes, haha.  After the NES came out, I don't think arcades really hit that second golden age until the SFII boom.  I played my share of some of those games in the arcades (actually more like pizza joints cuz I rarely saw them in arcades..), but I gotta say, I really land on the side of arcade controls for console emus not feeling natrual- at least in the general sense.  I guess it's really a personal choice though, I go with whatever the strongest experience was for me.  That means console controls for most console games, and arcade stick for arcade pcb/mame/or console games that are almost identical to something from the arcades like a lot of fighting games.
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My logic was that I WAS OLD ENOUGH to go to the arcades...thus my exposure to many NES games was on a Playchoice 10 as opposed to an NES because it was at the arcade that I played these games...the only gaming I did at home was on my C64.  I was also being a little facetious in my condemnation of them being too young...almost a "while I was doing this you were still in diapers..." ;) all in good fun.

To me console games just play better on arcade controls, probably because the first few waves of home games were either ports or arcade like in their delivery so that people could feel like they had a piece of the arcade on their console. As a result a lot of games just play better with arcade controls...you cited Metroid in a later post as not being the type to play with arcade controls. I happen to think Metroid plays fantastic on an arcade controller and same with other games like Turrican etc...about the only genre I don't play a lot of  on the arcade cab are RPGs and only because they require longer stretches of time but that doesn't mean the controller doesn't feel better ;)
WhereEaglesDare:
Plus there are plenty of games that were ported to the console that run better on emulaor, PSX version of UMK runs better, at least my pc runs the PSX version better.
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