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General excitement and what size monitor for a cabinet? (Offical "I'm doing it")
alfonzotan:
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If you have access to a Grainger store (they only sell to businesses, but if you work for a company with an account there, you can buy stuff for yourself out of your own pocket) or know somebody who does, you can order 1/16" HDPE sheets for very cheap. I bought one of these to cover my control panel, $15:
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/Sheet-Stock-1ZAZ8
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I actually work for Grainger and I'm so glad you mentioned us :).
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Heh... watch it, you might get flooded with PM's asking you to hook up BYOAC-ers with cheap parts!
ragnar:
For vinyl I am thinking about using these:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/retro-gaming/a6d0/
Either Donkey Kong, or Mario themed. I think I have to go DK. But this keeps the stickers small. For what I want to do, this should suffice.
Also, I got a free computer. What a big PITA. I have to get XP on it. And on top of that, I am having driver issues and the XP key (key on side of Gateway PC) is not working. Yes, I have an OEM disk so I don't know what is going wrong.
UPDATE: AWESOME! Took 5 hours (now 5 am) but I got everything up and running on the free PC. It's a 2.4 GHz P4 with 256 meg. I figure that I need an upgrade to 512 meg+. I already upgraded the hard drive from 20 gig to a 120 gig hard drive. I had the 120 laying around so free upgrade! The best part? The on board video was low end. Luckily I remembered my old gaming rig in the basement that started life in 1998. It eventually went from a voodoo 1 to a voodoo 3. So, I found myself a voodoo 3 card! Should be good enough for a N64 emulator! Now off to play with front ends even though I should go to bed as it is 2:10 am.
The Lumberjackass:
if you think it'd work out by all means go for it.
for the price , and the art itself , its not bad at all. only thing i would say is that they are only 40" high.
thats 8 inches short of 4 foot. so make sure the dimensions are ok before you order :)
( and i know all about staying awake while i should be asleep !! lol , this hobby aint for the weak :) )
ragnar:
I might as well make this my official discussion thread.
I already asked in the Mala forum by piggybacking on another post from a long time ago but I'll ask again here.
I have the latest Mala andlatest Mame. I am testing trying to confiugre things with Pacman, Frogger and Rampage. I have screens from each. My problem is more basic though. When I run Mame, it is telling me that it could not initialize Direct3D for some reason. I already figured out that the latest Mala can only configure older versions of Mame. So, I have to configure Mame.ini on my own. Is there an application that can help me out or a tutorial/manual regarding mame.ini? I have tried to get Mame running without Mala and it gives me the same error.
I have Direct3D-enabled within Windows and tested that it works. DXDIAG confirms this.
Thread I piggybacked on with the same exact question: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=82896.0