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DaveMMR:
Just noticed your username. Congrats on being VD Free since 1983. :applaud: ;D
As for your experiment: If forging ahead, I would just get the Pi first and try running emulators before worrying about controls, encoders, building cabinets and whatnot (all that's already been proven it can be done.) You don't want to find that you blew your entire budget on something you can't tolerate playing due to the limitations.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: VDfreesince1983 on March 06, 2013, 06:25:15 pm ---I've noticed that a lot of the arcade build community is focused on re-creation of arcade experience I'm only doing this project as an experiment to see if it can be done. That's why I want to try the pi. I wonder if a controller can be built on an arduino as well any thoughts
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All of that can be done, so it's not much an experiment (unless it is "personal victory" oriented). There are well established controls, ways of making panels and cabinets, as well as a complete tutorial out there for running MAME on a Pi. Putting these together doesn't really prove much, other than it is possible to "put tab A into slot B" and that's already known. The folks here are saying that a freebie PC will work in the same cabinet you build, and be many more times capable than the Pi. They just want you to be happy with the end result, as the cabinetry tends to be the part which challenges most.
The good news is that you probably won't have to do a lot to change it over 2 weeks after you get it done, when you decide that the Pi isn't up for the job. ;)
VDfreesince1983:
I'm not useing mame I'm writing the software
RandyT:
--- Quote from: VDfreesince1983 on March 07, 2013, 02:30:32 pm ---I'm not useing mame I'm writing the software
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???
You are going to write your own Pi optimized emulator for all of the systems you mentioned? Or are you just planning to write a Pi front end for existing emulators? If the latter, then you are still using MAME, and everything stated so far regarding performance issues still holds true.
EvilNuff:
There is either some serious misunderstanding here by VD or we are not hearing the whole story. Creating all the mentioned emulators from scratch for pi would be a huge undertaking. Not to mention in the original post he commented that he has a dev working on the GUI which implies that he is not the developer. I suspect VD that you don't really understand what you are undertaking?
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