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Small like a Pi but it can actually do stuff!
Steve248:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on December 08, 2012, 10:02:16 am ---By the time you add a monitor you might have just bought a cheap laptop.
Who in their right mind will drop 3 bucks on a limited brick for an arcade cab?
::)
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Yes, I would too, but maybe I m not in my right mind ;)
I cannot imagine why you would put a laptop in a arcade cab instead though?
ark_ader:
Laptops are great for small projects. Naturally you would not put a 15 or 17 " laptop screen in a Nintendoh cab (well you could :o ) but to put a small puck like PC in a full size cab and drop 3 bucks on it when you can have a decent desktop PC that can play anything for half the price, even with a monitor. Makes more sense.
Raspberry Pi is another disappointment. You have to buy licenses to play back mpeg2 and it is real fun and games getting audio through HDMI. Never mind playing anything pre .34 era Mame. Its a toy.
I can see that puck sitting on my desk with two cables for an awesome desktop PC. Not wasted in a cab or a control panel.
I have two 1.5 Core2Duo ITX PCs I got for £20 each that could do the same job, but they do not look as nice as that little puck.
Same could be said for a Mac Mini. Would you stick a Mac Mini in an arcade machine? :dunno
Unstupid:
I downloaded the latest mame and a few roms to see what I could get out of this low powered chip and its pretty much what I expected.... This machine does stumble on the newer games like blitz... I was only able to get 48 fps with blitz so that won't work... But for other/older games it is just fine... sf2 and sf2ce I was able to do about 450-480 fps. I wanted to try the MK games but I couldn't find any good roms to download so that'll have to wait... Same goes for the neogeo games.
I'm currently building a small bartop fighting cab that is too small for an itx but will fit the Nuc just fine... I plan on a hyperspin front end, and the ability to link a second cab for head to head play. It'll use a small 10" screen with a single 8 way and 6 buttons in a sf layout.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on December 15, 2012, 03:18:51 pm ---I can see that puck sitting on my desk with two cables for an awesome desktop PC. Not wasted in a cab or a control panel.
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I can definitely see using something like this for a bartop, or tucked inside a standalone control panel. It might be difficult to justify the cost for something like that, but my guess is the combination of simplicity and power in this little box would still make it an attractive option for those who can afford it.
Personally, though, I would probably just build a bartop or panel just large enough to fit a cheaper solution. :)
But one very novel use for it would be along the lines of a swappable control panel. If one could fashion a dock for it, you could have several "dummy" machines configured for different purposes, and move it from machine to machine...Might go broke buying monitors, though ;D
ivwshane:
Do you get sfiv up and running yet? I have an intel 3770k with an HD4000 and it can run sfiv ae at 720p but not 1080p and antialiasing kills it.
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