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Bayne666:
ok gotcha.

but making; let's say; a JAMMA Mega Man X cab would be out of the question then? since Mega Man X is an SNES game?
ed12:
yes u can
u just need the nessary converter's
jamma just define's your button's/power/monitor/coin-door/service-switch/test-switch
etc

ed
Malenko:

--- Quote from: Bayne666 on May 12, 2014, 01:19:35 pm ---ok gotcha.

but making; let's say; a JAMMA Mega Man X cab would be out of the question then? since Mega Man X is an SNES game?

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Welp if you're gonna focus on consoles (weather it be emulated or actual hardware) JAMMA wouldn't be the way to go, I thought you meant a single arcade game. For me it wouldnt be worth building a cab for a single console game, if you do one for MegaMan, wouldn't you want ALL the megaman games on it?
Vigo:
Around here, sky's the limit. You can make cabinets as focused or as broad as you would like. We will love to see what you come up with.

My only caveat, when basing a cabinet on console games, is that most console games are based on long sittings. You do a mega man cab, it takes away from the sit and quick play kind of feel. You might want to think about adding save state and load state buttons, that way you don't have to start from the beginning every time you sit down and play. Press one button and you are right where you left off.

What you can do, if the controls are not overly specialized is make a machine that is "stealthly universal." Lets say you make a dedicated Kirby cab, you could make a machine kirby themed that starts up into Kirby on startup, but you could make it go into an menu of additional games when a special combination of buttons is pressed. Whether you want everything available, or just 10-50 favorite games you would like to have on your machine.
thomas_surles:

--- Quote from: Vigo on May 12, 2014, 02:10:56 pm ---Around here, sky's the limit. You can make cabinets as focused or as broad as you would like. We will love to see what you come up with.

My only caveat, when basing a cabinet on console games, is that most console games are based on long sittings. You do a mega man cab, it takes away from the sit and quick play kind of feel. You might want to think about adding save state and load state buttons, that way you don't have to start from the beginning every time you sit down and play. Press one button and you are right where you left off.

What you can do, if the controls are not overly specialized is make a machine that is "stealthly universal." Lets say you make a dedicated Kirby cab, you could make a machine kirby themed that starts up into Kirby on startup, but you could make it go into an menu of additional games when a special combination of buttons is pressed. Whether you want everything available, or just 10-50 favorite games you would like to have on your machine.

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+1 on all of this
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