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Would you like to see a forum for "Real Games"
paigeoliver:
As far as the "Riff Raff" goes, there are really only two kinds of collectors, those that like Mame and those who hate it. The ones who hate it are not going to come here, otherwise they would already be here.
And the ones who hate Mame do have some very valid reasons.
They just hate this scenario.
Excited newbie looks for a cabinet, doesn't know much and buys the first cabinet they can find. Working games are actually easier to find for newbies than dead games, so excited newbie ends up with a working dedicated game.
Excited newbie paints over or rips off the sideart.
Excited newbie first drills the control panel for extra buttons (ruining it).
Unhappy with that excited newbie pulls out the jigsaw and lops off the front of the cabinet and affixes a 4 foot wide control panel onto a standard 19" cabinet (which was a dedicated working game a few weeks ago).
6 months later excited newbie tosses cabinet in the dumpster and starts over again.
Classic collector gets all pissed off because excited newbie just completely thrashed a perfectly good game, when classic collector has 9 empty cabinets in his basement that he wants to get rid of.
Also, whoever owns that 3 Stooges Mame cabinet, that cabinet has single handedly done more damage to the reputation of the Mame community than every chopped up Centipede, Pac-Man, and Space Duel combined. I have heard that thing mentioned over and over again, and not just on the internet, even when talking to other collectors in person.
Jabba:
My vote is Yes. I just bought two new arcade machines and do not have a "clue" how this stuff works. ;D (but I'm gonna find out...)
That being said, three months ago I didn't have a "clue" either on how to build an arcade machine either, and now I know and have one running my basement and my seven year old is having a blast with DD.. How did this come about you ask? By all my posts, lurks and reading on the byoac forum...
We have an Artwork Forum...Does this have anything to do with building an Arcade Control Panel? I don't think so... (Don't get me wrong now folks, I love the Artwork Forum and hope to start participating in in soon...).
Now that I have a couple of "real" arcade machines, I can study it, figure out how it works and maybe even make it better. Do I plan on Adding some big new control panel to it? No. Do I plan on making it better/nicer? Yes. Do I need help on understanding how it works? Absolutely. Today, I don't know Jamma from a hole in the wall, but in three months...
I like the people on this board. I can post any quesiton I want and I always get a prompt, polite, courteuous well through out answer(s). This place has a real good "community". I do not see this on many other boards.
Anyways, FWIW, thats my opinion.
I own:
Arkanoid
Double Dragon
Aztec Pinball Machine.
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