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| sdweim85:
I currently have a mame arcade setup with a Dual core PC. It runs fairly well, but it's annoying to update drivers, and maintain it. Sometimes things go corrupt for no reason and what not. Normal Windows XP issues. Would it be worth it to just sell the PC and get a modded original Xbox with Coinops on it? I don't do anything fancy on the arcade, its just a 2 player 6 button fighter setup with no spinner, trackball, or lightguns. With a LCD monitor. |
| Generic Eric:
If you wanted to do that just as an exercise; not selling your current set up, that would be OK. Otherwise, you'd need new controller boards, and a video converter box to hook up your xbox to a LCD monitor, our one that had rca/svideo input. I couldn't find any local, so I spent about $9 for each controller and $24 for a video converter. I don't think its worth abandoning a working PC. Plus, I found coinops4 to be slower than my experience with mame when launching games.. *shrug* YMMV. edited for a coherency |
| Cynicaster:
--- Quote from: sdweim85 on December 02, 2012, 11:13:28 am ---I currently have a mame arcade setup with a Dual core PC. It runs fairly well, but it's annoying to update drivers, and maintain it. Sometimes things go corrupt for no reason and what not. Normal Windows XP issues. --- End quote --- I don't get it--what's to maintain or update on a dedicated MAME machine? Mine is a crappy old XP machine that I bought in the local classifieds over a year ago for cheap, and I'm pretty sure the XP license isn't even legit, but it hardly matters, because in my eyes it's not a PC--it's a MAME computer. I just dropped in my MAME/MaLa directory structure, wired the power button up to my cab, and boom, done. I haven't done a single update to it, and 1.5 years later I can still get from power on to insert credit in about 15 seconds. Runs like a champ--even CHD games like SF3 and Simpsons Bowling. Seems to me the XP machine is the ideal MAME solution for any average Joe Blow that doesn't have some sort of irrational aversion to Windows PC's: availability for next to nothing, the scalability of power to meet your personal emulation needs, the wealth of knowledge in the online community that by and large uses PC's, the software support, etc. Maybe I'm missing something, but sounds like a no brainer to me. |
| jammin0:
Not to mention that coinops will take hours if not the better part of a day just to transfer the files to it after you've got the thing networked up. The one and only advantage I see to a modded xbox is that they are dirt cheap. |
| Dawgz Rule:
:stupid What he said. After the initial install, why update? What type of normal Windows XP issues are you seeing? |
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