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First Project: MegaTokyo MAME!!
Aithos:
Thanks Mikey. I'm updating my top post at the moment since I've got some new pictures and
made some decisions since I created it. Check it out and I'll definitely ask for more opinions once
I've got some basic work done and am getting ready to order the rest of the parts I need.
Aithos:
I have also noticed that Andy has a breakout VGA cable on his website that hooks up directly to the Wells Gardner monitors, so I'm going to be purchasing one of those to go with my Ipac2. So now I'm wondering if I should get one of the amplifiers or just let it run at 1v instead of 5v since Wells Gardner can do that. The way I understand it is that it will be much dimmer and I will have to crank the brightness to make it look decent. I would prefer to use 5v if it has a better picture, but I am very inexperienced when it comes to soldering stuff and want to stay within my own ability here. I'm a bit of a perfectionist so I don't want to do shoddy work, and I realize this thing won't ever be as nice looking as my 50" pioneer elite plasma but I'd like it to be as good as I can make it. Opinions?
I'm currently set to be using an AMD x2 4400+ 2.36ghz cpu, it will be running a 750 watt PSU, initially an EVGA GeForce 7800gtx and 4gb of high performance mushkin ram. I'll also have a raptor 74gb HDD and be running windows 7 64bit with all of the performance tweaks done. I'm going to try both sofk 15khz and making custom resolutions through the nvidia control panel since I'm pretty familiar with software tweaking. Eventually I'll be rebuilding my current machine (possibly even before this project is done) and then I'll have a i7860, EVGA P55 FTW motherboard, EVGA GeForce 260 FTW, the 750 watt PSU (I'll be reusing my corsair 1000 watt in my next build) and possibly an 80gb SSD depending on price. I'm going to be running Wolfmame .106 so that I can record and submit for twingalaxies (recently submitted a new WR, I'll announce after it is verified) and haven't decided on a frontend yet. I have played with Mala a bit but I'm open to suggestions here too. I don't need a ton of bells and whistles, just smooth operation. I'm not going to have 2000 games or anything, I'll probably have 50-100 tops. I'm more interested in stuff I'm going to play than having everything. I own pretty much every one of the games that will be on here for one console or another, now I want the arcade feel and authenticity instead of a nintendo or ps3 controller.
Donkbaca:
Good luck! Keep us posted!
LeedsFan:
I think some of you guys are being way too hard on the OP. He's apologised and it's been accepted by Andy. Plus he's still bought stuff from Ultimarc.
Regarding the joysticks I'd really like to see more details from MikeyMerse regarding his mod of the JLFs. There are two things that put me off those sticks. The fact that swapping between 4-way and 8-way didn't look quick/easy and also that in 4-way you can still hit the diagonals.
I don't think Soft 15KHz works at all with Windows 7. I've been trying to find this out for certain. I've yet to see anyone post here to say that that they've had it working on Win7. I could be wrong of course, and I hope I am because I'd like to give it a go on my next project too.
Aithos:
I didn't get to do much of anything this weekend because of some real life drama. But I can get you an answer about the windows 7 thing, I got my mame machine up and running after I figured out my power supply was dead. I have a new one on order so as soon as it comes in I already have the operating system, mame and front ends all installed from when I had my main PSU in it for diagnosis (aka swapping random known working parts, lol). I thought I saw someone had it working, but if not I'll be doing custom resolutions with the base nvidia drivers. My back is getting better slowly so I should be able to get this in the apt and get started by next weekend. I'd be curious about mods for the JLF, I just decided the few games I'm interested in that aren't 8 way I'll have to deal with since I want the precise control for fighters. I'm a big fan of the oldschool street fighter games and I happen to like some of the Neo Geo ones, so that's a big thing for me. It's bed for me now though, 6am comes far too soon!