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TastyWheat:

Hey everyone, I'm a first time poster, but long time reader of these forums. I am very impressed with the work you have all been doing and would like to try my hand at building an arcade cabinet. My goal is to make a MAME arcade cabinet using a computer monitor, and a computer. Nothing to complicated, no coin door, and i am planning to buy the arcade stick instead of making one. I know there are some good sticks out there you can just plug into a computer, which would work perfect for me. I want it to be two player and not a really big system. I have all the tools available and will probably do little to no soldering, seeing as i will just plug my arcade stick into the computer and set the control to coordinate with the emulator.

My two questions are: is there any possible way that hook up a gun to the computer, so i could play light gun games such as house of the dead. I am also looking for how fast my computer is going to need to be in order to run the MAME's i want to run. Just to give you an idea of the arcade MAME's i want to run, here is some:

House of the Dead
Tekken
Gauntlet legends
Street Fighter 3

Games of that era are my main focus, but I'm not sure how fast and what specs i will need in a computer to run those MAME's. If anyone could give me some guidance i would be very grateful. Before you ask, i am very experienced with Emulators and how they work. I'm pretty good with computers but i wont lie, i am not the best.

Bob

RyoriNoTetsujin:


--- Quote from: TastyWheat on November 18, 2012, 02:46:08 pm ---is there any possible way that hook up a gun to the computer, so i could play light gun games such as house of the dead.

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Lots of options there: ActLabs guns (if you can find them) or Ultimarc.com AimTraks for just a couple of examples. No option comes without some concessions though... that's a much longer discussion.


--- Quote from: TastyWheat on November 18, 2012, 02:46:08 pm ---House of the Dead
Tekken
Gauntlet legends
Street Fighter 3

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Gauntlet is your bottleneck here (as it is the most demanding of those you listed.) Like the other "benchmark games" (NFL Blitz, etc.) you're probably going to need a Core i5-2500K or better to run it at full speed. I have the 2500K, and it only gets it up to about 120% speed if throttling is turned off.  I don't think Legends is fully playable yet though, anyway (I don't really play it, someone else will have to chime in.) Freezes up due to graphical glitches, I think?

I believe HOTD isn't playable in MAME yet either; you'd have to use the Model 2 emulator-- but I can say it works quite brilliantly with the 2500K as well.

SF3:TS will run on surprisingly little. Runs on my gf's Celeron based mini-pc. Even my Android tablet (dual core 1.2 ghz) can run it full speed, and that's on a fairly shoddy port of MAME!  :laugh2:




TastyWheat:

Thanks man, ill check them out. I am not too strict on keeping those games. I wouldn't mind dropping gauntlet legends, the original is just as good too gauntlet is just as good too right? I wonder if i could use a dreamcast emulator to run house of the dead and just program the the buttons to the emulator. Hmm... food for thought. Thank you again!

Diet_Pepsi:


--- Quote from: TastyWheat on November 18, 2012, 06:09:11 pm ---Thanks man, ill check them out. I am not too strict on keeping those games. I wouldn't mind dropping gauntlet legends, the original is just as good too gauntlet is just as good too right? I wonder if i could use a dreamcast emulator to run house of the dead and just program the the buttons to the emulator. Hmm... food for thought. Thank you again!

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Gauntlet Legends does have some emulation issues depending on what version you want to run.  Gauntlet Dark Legacy, however, is playable and I am running it with no issues using my i5-2400. 

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