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Bayne666:


--- 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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thanks man :) That's a great load off my mind :)



southpaw13:

This is crazy! One game?  Then use original hardware.

YoGaBaR:

I did a custom bubble bobble to play just the original. Then I bought the other boards and put a switcher in for the second and third game. Then I put a computer in to play all games like bubble bobble. Now its back to just a dedicated cab. So yea build one they can be just like a  :dunno Swiss army knife.

ChanceKJ:

Hmmm, dedicated Custer's Revenge cab...

rCadeGaming:

I can't agree more with the suggestions of using original hardware.  There's no point in dealing with the complicated setup and added input lag of emulation if you're not getting the benefit of enormous game selection. 

If you're thinking of an arcade game, use the real board.  If you're thinking of a NES or SNES game, use the real system.  It's not hard to wire up the controls and audio/video of an old console into a cabinet; do some searches and ask whatever questions about it you need to.  It's also not hard to do so by wiring the console to a JAMMA harness, so you could swap between the console and an arcade board easily.

EDIT:  SNES, like most other consoles, would be simple to wire up, because it outputs RGB video just like an arcade board.  An NES would either have to be modded for RGB output, or the cab would have to use a TV with a composite input.

Luckily a decent RGB modding solution for NES is finally available:
http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=47617

Works great for me, but I don't know what your skill level is with soldering etc.  You'd need to do a little bit of soldering to wire up any console to a JAMMA harness, but something that doesn't require internal modification to the console will be much easier.  SNES has Mega Man X-X3, Genesis has The Wily Wars (Mega Man 1-3) if you can find it at a reasonable price.



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