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Another question about building a mame computer
clok:
--- Quote from: fallacy on July 18, 2011, 04:26:42 am ---$500 for a pc that will just be used as an emulator? … na you should use your old computer or get one for free from someone.
Anyway if you cant do that spend a little more and get a good laptop with a i5 or i7 proceser. Not only will it run mame smooth as butter but then you can take it out when ever you want and use it for other things when you get board of your cab.
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Of course with a laptop it will be obsolete in 3-6 months for anything other than web browsing and old stuff :) (sorryas an IT guy and I HATE LAPTOPS and TABLETS! purely opinion)
That sandybridge setup will last 2-3+ years as a main desktop PC and you will have the ability to upgrade the video card (which if current trends stay the way the are, will be 3-4 X as fast as current stuff in about 2 years) and quite possibley the CPU which will extend it farther. But it seems manufactures have seen we will upgrade everything so they change slots and such quite often to "FORCE' upgrades.
jtaged 360, if its an old one have it "reballed' ya snicker all you want, it will keep it from red ringing. of course just more money.
shateredsoul1979:
The jtag is working perfectly right now, no need to reball since it's working fine.
I typed up a longer response but man it dissapeared, no idea why... :banghead:
Anyways, Donkbaca
Yeah I think I saw your thread on this. I even might have commented. I might check it out and see the difficulty of the process. I still don't understand conceptually where the kvm switch goes in the whole setup. What happens if you don't have the kvm switch? Can't they just all input into the same pc since win 7 allows for multiple keyboards? I'll check out your thread again. I have time for the pc but not the whole xbox 360 thing.
Donkbaca:
The way I ended it up wiring it is this:
I am using 2 hacked 360 pads for my CP. If you download the drivers from MS, the 360 pads are recognized as joysticks by windows, and you can assign device id's to them so they don't switch up on you when you disconnect them.
I have a KVM with audio, video and 2 usb ports and a wired remote. The 2 cables, one goes to the PC and one goes to the 360. The cables have a monitor connection, a audio jack and a usb port. You plug all the stuff into the PC as usual for the 360, I got a xbox vga cable and I needed to get a female to female vga connector to connect it up to the kvm cable. For the audio I needed to get a rca - 3.5mm adapter.
The 360 pads are connected to the USB ports on the KVM. The speakers are connected to the audio out of the KVM.
I hacked the remote and connected it to a seimitsu button on my CP. So you push that button and it switches the monitor, pads and sound from the pc to the xbox. Its pretty simple.
shateredsoul1979:
Does anyone know if this is a full install? or an upgrade? Microsoft says windows 7 pro for students is 30, but seems too cheap.
http://www.microsoft.com/student/en/us/windows/buynow/default.aspx
shateredsoul1979:
nevermind, i see the upgrade sticker now. lame
*edit* found a possible work around, nice http://www.winsupersite.com/article/win7/clean-install-windows-7-with-upgrade-media