While I can appreciate the input on different means of creating a solid state cabinet, I think the point of this thread keeps getting missed by a few. Yes I know we can achieve much better results by putting a pc in a cab, and can even get to the point that we are 95% solid state (you have to have an exhaust fan somewhere), we are talking about reinventing the jamma board here. A single board blug and play MAME solution.
There is an obvious allure to the Jamma board. Slap it into the cab, wire it up and the cab functions. The problem is, the emulation is terrible, the games are limited, and you cannot modify the interface. With that said, I am trying to find a better solution. While most of us hobbyests wont use something like this, I have need for something like this for a friends cab I am building, I bet there are a lot of others that would go jamma that would benefit from this. There will obviously need to be an iPac involved, but with the right board, and a well tweaked load, this could be a very viable solution to a 100 in 1 cab or so that just plays older games like the Jamma.
The BB comes in tomorrow or Tuesday. I post when it does.