Virtua Fighter 4 to MAME

[Canada_Mike85]

Hey Everyone,

I grew up with Arcades, as many of you have I imagine.. I have always wanted one of my own. I found one for $200, its virtua fighter 4 (made in 2002ish?) and uses a Naomi 2 board (whatever that means)

The cabinet comes complete and virtua fighter 4 works, takes quarters. The cabinet is not a collectors piece, its actually a standard wood cabinet with black sides, no decos.

I think this makes it a good candidate for MAME. I want to play mortal kombat, street fighter, x men, donkey kong etc... not every arcade game but some from my child hood. The cabinet is 2 player, with 3 buttons on each side, so I need to add 3 buttons to each side, the monitor is in good condition.

I have a friend that will gift me a crappy old computer to use, but is this my best option for what I want? WHERE DO I START!? I have it in my garage and feel overwhelmed haha, I live in Winnipeg, Canada

thank you for your time!
Mike

[paigeoliver]

You might want to make sure that the game has a standard resolution monitor and not a medium resolution one. I know the early games in the virtua fighter series were medium resolution. Klov says Virtua Fighter 4 is standard resolution but Klov isn't always right, particularly with newer stuff.

Scratch that, I looked it up in the manual, Virtua Fighter 4 can be either standard resolution or VGA resolution. Both are easy to deal with for a mame cabinet (while medium resolution monitors are basically worthless for mame).

[Canada_Mike85]

alright well that's good then? So Mame through cpu is what you guys suggest? is there certain parts I need for the cpu? should I gut the cabinet or do I wire it into the existing cables?