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| Praxi:
Wow goto bed, wake up to lots of responses and good advice. Choppers post wasn't really helpful, he/she/it doesn't tell me why it makes him want to murder kittens. I gather from the conversation many people don't like it though. My goal is mainly 4 player arcade games, that will probably be 50% of the gaming on it (3 players really wife all ways doing other stuff). Thinking Gauntlet, Xmen, and any others of that ilk. 25% Fighters, 25% old games that I know the kids will like; (metal slug, donkey kong, super mario, etc). I don't want the trackball setup that that cabinet is boasting. And I don't think I'm going to build a full cabinet, just a pedestal? cabinet. Haven't decided on that last part yet. |
| PL1:
--- Quote from: Praxi on June 18, 2013, 12:24:37 pm ---Choppers post wasn't really helpful, he/she/it doesn't tell me why it makes him want to murder kittens. --- End quote --- I suspect the answer can be found in the age-old arguments over "Franken-panels". :o Scott |
| paigeoliver:
No way should you be using a raspberry pi. That is putting a $30 brain into a $1000 project. It won't even run many of the games mentioned. Using one seriously hobbles any project. The only reason to use a pi is if you absolutely need the circuit board to be that small or because you want to prove an idea or concept. They aren't even capable of producing video modes that are truly suitable for mame use. The raspberry pi came out and a bunch of people said "that would be great for mame". It isn't, it never was but they won't let the idea go. SF was not the first game to use a bunch of buttons. Stargate has a joystick and 6 buttons and it came out in 1981. Defender had 5 buttons in 1980. There are quite a few classic era games with 4 buttons as well (Mouse Trap, Vanguard, etc). |
| Haze:
yeah MAME/UME 0.148u3 (released April 13th this year) included improvements to the emulation of the speech chip used on Gauntlet... you might not notice much, but they are there. you're not going to be running anything even close to that new on a Pi. classics do still see improvements as long as there are still things to be improved! |
| Praxi:
At this point, the PI is a proof of concept :) I have plenty of old computers lying around I can toss in later. Mainly my oldest girl wanted to figure out something fun we could do with the PI. So it will start a nice conversation about performance and right tool for the job, with evidence she can see! So I read a whole bunch about FrankenPanels (Thanks P1), is it a FP just because it has 4 joysticks on it? After more reading and the comments here, I'm thinking players 1 and 2 will have 6 buttons, players 3 and 4 will have 4. Does that seem reasonable? Most of the plans I look at include a bunch of other junk (trackballs, spinners, things I don't think I want). Any recommendations for plans that don't contain all that other stuff? Or a tool I should draw them in? |
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