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60 in 1 vs MAME
shredso:
I'm converting a cocktail for classic games. I have an upright with all the bells ans whistles so this will be pretty much for Donkey Kong, Galaga, Ms Pac Man, maybe a hand full of others. I'm thinking the 60 in 1 will be cheaper, easier and maybe better for guests to navigate. obviously I will have more options using MAME but if I'm only playing a few games I don't think it maters. Any thoughts?
Malenko:
the 60 in 1 is MAME? :dunno
DaveMMR:
I'm more of a fan of MAME than the 60-in-1's. You may think you only want those 60 games, but then you'll remember "this one" and "that one" and you'll regret not having more flexibility.
Also, you can update MAME easily when they fix certain glitches in games - not so much with the 60-in-1.
And then you can add console games as well.
Finally, MAME is a little more legit than the 60-in-1 (i.e. they're not charging you anything to use it).
BobA:
I have both and here are some points to consider.
The 60 in 1 has its own front end and can be set for cocktail cabs. It is not an instant on as it has an initialization period where it shows a count on the screen. You can get away with 2 buttons as 3 are only used for one game afaik. The board is very small and can be powered from an arcade type switching PS (also small). The board has a trackball interface built in. The 60 in 1 boards are cheap. They plug directly into a jamma harness. Can be run on an arcade monitor or a vga monitor. Suggest using a PC type speaker set as the speaker connected via the jamma harness is very noisy.
Mame has more versatility and game choices but this can be too much. A front end of some sort should be installed to make it more user friendly. An older computer is available for free to play the older games but the interface costs about 50% of what the 60 in 1 costs. The computer needs a larger PS and is larger then the 60 in 1 and some work must be done to hide windows. A windows computer needs work to run on an arcade monitor.
Overall if you want it simple and are happy with the games go 60 in 1.
If you like to tinker and make it look special go computer and mame.
Haze:
Please stop using / encouraging the use of these 60-in-1 etc.
They're taking a legitimate product (MAME) and illegally selling it, and encouraging commercial use of it while failing to make anybody aware of the actual legal situation surrounding their product.
This gives MAME, and the classic gaming scene a bad rep with the arcade manufacturers who will happily overlook people doing things for a bit of fun, but don't like their market eroded with actual commercial competition.
I'd prefer to see an outright ban on their discussion here, they're becoming too much of a problem.
Please support the actual devs, and arcade manufacturers, not the people trying to take advantage of them for their own profit.