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| emphatic:
If people are "fine with fiddling in mame with a PC" in their cab, why not just do that instead of trying to steer this project towards exactly that? I don't want something to fiddle with for hours on end because it's easy, I want something that plays some games perfectly without the need for anything but a JAMMA cabinet. Playing arcade games > Fiddling with a computer. |
| sandheaver:
--- Quote from: emphatic on April 11, 2013, 01:35:23 pm ---If people are "fine with fiddling in mame with a PC" in their cab, why not just do that instead of trying to steer this project towards exactly that? I don't want something to fiddle with for hours on end because it's easy, I want something that plays some games perfectly without the need for anything but a JAMMA cabinet. Playing arcade games > Fiddling with a computer. --- End quote --- You don't want Linux, then, or an open board. You want one of the boards that are already available. The reason this would be open, I imagine, would be specifically to allow any and all customization an end-user could muster. I'm fine with an out-of-the-box working configuration, but I can guarantee that < 3% of users will leave that as it is, and see things they wish to change, immediately. |
| yotsuya:
--- Quote from: sandheaver on April 11, 2013, 01:42:01 pm --- --- Quote from: emphatic on April 11, 2013, 01:35:23 pm ---If people are "fine with fiddling in mame with a PC" in their cab, why not just do that instead of trying to steer this project towards exactly that? I don't want something to fiddle with for hours on end because it's easy, I want something that plays some games perfectly without the need for anything but a JAMMA cabinet. Playing arcade games > Fiddling with a computer. --- End quote --- You don't want Linux, then, or an open board. You want one of the boards that are already available. The reason this would be open, I imagine, would be specifically to allow any and all customization an end-user could muster. I'm fine with an out-of-the-box working configuration, but I can guarantee that < 3% of users will leave that as it is, and see things they wish to change, immediately. --- End quote --- I think it all depends on how much customization you want to do. I'd like to be able to put my own games and fiddle with the front end, but other than that, I just want to make sure it plays games. If it's open, people can develop cool plug-ins and add-ons, and that's fine. |
| sharpfork:
If the hardware ends up being powerful enough to get folks interested, I imagine there will be a build (community or other) that is simple turn key, extract an image on a SD card and call it done. I would think there are other folks that would want to tinker. There is no reason it can't support both. :cheers: |
| smalltownguy:
I'm interested in this. Apparently I'm not spending enough time on the BYOAC forums, lately :timebomb: |
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