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Cocktail Arcade cabinet - Help Required
Popcorrin:
It looks like their is a microswitch glued to the chip on the ipac!
Plus the monitor seems to be flush against the side of the cabinet?
More pics would be good. How do you access the inside of the cocktail?
Cab seems like a slight bit of a hack job based off the looks of the coin door/ipac and the positioning of the monitor.
BobA:
Pictures of the startup screen may give us and idea of what frontend is in use. The switch on the ipac is wired to Player 2 switch 8 so that is a starting point depending on how your mame and frontend are setup.
BobA:
If that is the pic of your coin door then the slot for the coins looks like it is right above the ipac. A coin could have shorted out the ipac on its way by.
hilly:
To All,
Blimey i have just realised that the last time i actually logged on to this forum was dec 10. Ouch ---- where does the time go.
I will explain what i have been up to then try to answer the questions people have put on the replies i have seen.
WORK - this seemed to rule the life which is very sad.
Arcade game - Went back to it with good intentions switched it on. On comes the PSU, fans a rotating, hard drive seemed to make a noise. Monitor displayed absolutely nothing.
My theory of leave it for a couple of weeks and it will get better and miraculously fix itself did not seem to work. Odd that! So PC part of cabinet went in the garage.
I sourced another old computer from a mate of mine and learnt quite a bit on how to install sound card format and load windows so i was a bit impressed with myself. But being impatient thought it would be more fun to make it into a juke box. as this seemed easier than the arcade game. it was easier and i ended up using 'album Player', i just can not afford the touchscreen monitor.
Back to the arcade game - i obtained another PC, took out the hard drive and placed it in an external box. and actually accessed the info on the hard drive through my home PC, the only one folder i had heard of is MAME. I found the games and they seem to be all zipped and present
I formatted the PC and inserted XP and that's as far as i have got. I have tried to understand the MAME through the web but i don't' seem to make it work like the instructions or you tube commentary.
hilly:
Whoops i forgot to add comments from other peoples posts.
javerh - IPac, i take it this is the micro chip on the small circuit board. i suppose this is the interface from jotsticks and buttons to PC. Yep your right there is a micro switch glued to the front of it. When the red micro switch was pressed this would take me into the individual game menus where i could change things like arcade to cocktail; increase the amount of lives i had.
Why its glued to the IPac i have not got a clue i suppose the builder placed it here for ease of access to the game menus.
front end.....since i started looking on line again about this i have seen the term but know next to nothing about it. is it someting like MAME 32 / MAMEUI and is the interface between Mame and the games? i have looked on the original hard drive but can not see anything like mame32..
Popcurrin - More pics i can do. i will upload when i have taken some clear ones. Access to the PC is through a draw that slots out with all of the internals on it except for the monitor that is wedged inside the machine.
Boba - The start up screen is now a now go as nothing happens, i sort of remember last time it did anything it came up very brief with a message like mame 91 fault/error????
thanks Again to everyone that has posted so far. i will crack this or start again