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BobA:

+1 for drventure

Other emulators than just MAME drive alot of upgrades.  Pinball is a big user of resources and you cannot just buy the real thing for the price.  Wii and Xbox360 are easier to buy then emulate but a basement full of pinball machines is tough.

stuckpixel:


--- Quote from: Turnarcades on December 10, 2010, 10:27:27 pm ---
It's not the cost of the hardware to do it that baffles me - it's why you'd go to the expense of such a powerful system to emulate 6th generation+ consoles, which generally have games dependant on analog control to play correctly, and generally few games suitable for an arcade environment anyway; even less I would hold in memory as so good I just have to have it in my arcade cabinet.

It's like the dolts who approach us asking for PS3 or 360 compatibility "...cos playing black ops on my arcade would be cool!". Errrr, no it wouldn't. Street Fighter 4 is about the limit of suitable games for these consoles that would play better in an arcade cabinet, and as it's available on PC anyway; pointless to bother with interfacing a console. Even those who ask if it's possible to pay and up the spec we install to emulate PS2 or XBox - I simply ask "OK, for what game in particular?" and always get a resounding silence when they realise the handful of games they have in mind would play awful with arcade controls.

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I can't speak for everyone - but being able to play arcade ports on those emulated systems (soul calibur 2/3, tekken 4/5, many others) is pretty nice. Not to mention, there are joysticks out there that will handle the analog requirements just fine (Ultrastik 360 as an example). There are also console games that would do very well in an arcade style setup as well (Super Monkey Ball comes to mind - as do a number of rail shooters for Wii)

To me - if you're going to go through all the time to build a nice arcade cabinet, it'd be a shame not to put a fairly powerful computer inside of it. Yeah - you can run pacman/galaga/donkey kong on an old Pentium II, but why wouldn't you want to have a box that's going to be able to handle anything cool that comes along as well?

Gray_Area:


--- Quote from: stuckpixel on December 12, 2010, 10:01:42 am ---Yeah - you can run pacman/galaga/donkey kong on an old Pentium II, but why wouldn't you want to have a box that's going to be able to handle anything cool that comes along as well?

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Like?



--- Quote from: shateredsoul on December 09, 2010, 01:08:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: General_Faliure on December 09, 2010, 11:24:41 am ---
--- Quote from: boogieman on December 04, 2010, 01:01:49 pm ---
What pisses me off is I have to pay $100+ for an OS that I am basically going to bypass by shelling to the front end.    :'(

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I agree, that's why i use a Linux system (Lubuntu 10.10 + WahCade front end), it works well for me.
Besides Mame i use several emulators, (Daphne, Stella, Vice and more).
I also use fairly old hardware, i started with a Athlon XP 1900 and recently upgraded to a Athlon 64 3200.

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ewww wahcade? j/k

Ubuntu was pretty user friendly when I tried it, I just always had issues with the sounds dissapearing randomly, or the cd not working or different components not working anymore.


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I hear the 'T' word echoing in the distance....

racecar:

hi guys im from australia and jumping into the mame now, sick of using a xbox with mameox etc...

wondering if this rig will be fine to play games like neo geo, capcom games, and the MK series.

also emulators like dreamcast so i can play MvC2 apparently the MAME version is no good?

AMD Athlon II X2 255 Socket AM3 Dual Core Regor Processor & fan
ASUS M4N68T-M V2 AMD Socket AM3 Motherboard
Kingston KVR1333D3N9/2G 2GB PC3-10600 DDR3 ValueRam Desktop System Mem
Gigabyte GZ-M3-BPD GZ-M Mini Tower Black Case
Antec NEO-ECO-450C NeoPower Series Desktop Power Supply
Western Digital WD5001AALS 500GB Caviar Black HDD
Pioneer DVR-218L SATA DVD-RW Optical Drive
eVGA NVidia e-GeForce 8400 GS 512MB PCIe Video Graphics Card.

bpark42:


--- Quote from: racecar on December 15, 2010, 06:24:51 pm ---...
wondering if this rig will be fine to play games like neo geo, capcom games, and the MK series.

also emulators like dreamcast so i can play MvC2 apparently the MAME version is no good?

AMD Athlon II X2 255 Socket AM3 Dual Core Regor Processor & fan
ASUS M4N68T-M V2 AMD Socket AM3 Motherboard
Kingston KVR1333D3N9/2G 2GB PC3-10600 DDR3 ValueRam Desktop System Mem
Gigabyte GZ-M3-BPD GZ-M Mini Tower Black Case
Antec NEO-ECO-450C NeoPower Series Desktop Power Supply
Western Digital WD5001AALS 500GB Caviar Black HDD
Pioneer DVR-218L SATA DVD-RW Optical Drive
eVGA NVidia e-GeForce 8400 GS 512MB PCIe Video Graphics Card.

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Yes, that will be more than capable.

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