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OpenJamma board - interest?
emphatic:
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--- Quote from: emphatic on February 08, 2013, 01:54:15 pm ---Oh, and for the frontend, please make it somewhat easy to create skins/themes for. If the resources are just a couple of .png files for example, like in AdvanceMenu. I'd love to be able to skin it, and I'm sure there will be many more people interested in doing that too.
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Why not simply use a PC with JAMMA fingerboard, like this:
...then all you need to do is connect some dozen wires and you get what you want, and much more, for much less than any board like this could be. Why don't you simply build your own arcade controls, like the title of this forum suggests? And if instead of soldering connectors there were screws, then making JAMMA interface would be as easy as connecting USB adapter such as I-PAC.
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I was referring to the graphical user interface of the OpenJAMMA. I know how to hook up a PC to my cabinets, I just hate PC's. If you're going to quote someone, please read the quotes too or you will annoy the hell out of people.
tris_d:
--- Quote from: emphatic on February 09, 2013, 04:53:12 pm ---I was referring to the graphical user interface of the OpenJAMMA. I know how to hook up a PC to my cabinets, I just hate PC's. If you're going to quote someone, please read the quotes too or you will annoy the hell out of people.
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Yes, graphical user interface, and everything else. Why do you even think this guy is writing any user interfaces? At best you'll be able to run the same emulators you can find on GP2X handheld, but the question is still how well those emulators actually run on this particular board we know almost nothing about.
So you would prefer worse and more expensive hardware with older emulators just because you hate PC? And what is it you hate? Do you think any of it would be better with this board? Like more options, easier to configure, more games running at full speed? What, for example?
emphatic:
--- Quote from: tris_d on February 09, 2013, 06:34:44 pm ---Yes, graphical user interface, and everything else. Why do you even think this guy is writing any user interfaces? At best you'll be able to run the same emulators you can find on GP2X handheld, but the question is still how well those emulators actually run on this particular board we know almost nothing about.
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I tend to stay positive until I know not to be. You're right, we can only speculate at this point.
--- Quote from: tris_d on February 09, 2013, 06:34:44 pm ---So you would prefer worse and more expensive hardware with older emulators just because you hate PC? And what is it you hate? Do you think any of it would be better with this board? Like more options, easier to configure, more games running at full speed? What, for example?
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I like hardware that's complete out of the box. I either play on arcade PCBs or on consoles, as I hate configuring emulators. Also, PCs take up way too much space inside an arcade cabinet, and there are way too many expensive peripherals needed - amplifier, JAMMA interface, video card.
The OpenJAMMA, I want to put games on there, then play them. That's it. As long as the games I want to play run well, I'm happy. The list of games I want to play that I don't already own on original hardware or ported to console is pretty short, so whether I'll be buying this or not is not based on how many games will run perfectly, it's based on the few it'll run perfectly and if they fit into the holes in my small collection.
Malenko:
--- Quote from: tris_d on February 09, 2013, 06:34:44 pm --- :blah: :blah:
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Congrats on doubling the number of threads you've posted in / number of threads you've been unpleasant in. This is now TWO things that arent even out yet that you say suck. I mean *I* get it, you arent interested, why not just let the rest of us be excited?
slight edit by saint
lodoss118:
if u can get sfiii to work on it then i am in