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| AzureKnight:
--- Quote from: Karpro on November 18, 2014, 05:44:27 pm ---This will be a scratch build, that seems to be half the fun, if not more. I will play the classics (Space invaders, pac man, asteroids, galago, donkey kong) golden tee would be one of the newer games I'd play. The boy and his friends will be more into the fighter games. Probably going to be LCD mounted horizontally, big enough so the vertical games still are decent sized. More than likely it'll be 16:9 just due to availability. --- End quote --- In terms of joysticks it sounds like you want to play a lot of games that used a 4-way controller. Many of the more "modern" games that you mention for the kids will be 8-way controllers. While an 8-way can play a 4-way game it often is tricky. Many people add a dedicated 4-way controller to their Control Panel (CP). While others opt for something that can switch between the two (with options for physical switching or software). Obviously you would want a Trackball then as well, what about a spinner? |
| Malenko:
I am sure I am missing some, anything added after MAME 148 for sure. I may have mixed in some 3 player games in the 4 player list, Im old, but you missed way more. 4 Player: 2 On 2 Open Ice Challenge Alien Storm Alien vs. Predator Arabian Fight Arabian Magic Armored Warriors Atari Football Atari Soccer Barricade Battle Circuit Battle Toads Blazing Tornado Bomber Man World Brute Force Bucky O'Hare Cadillacs and Dinosaurs Captain America and the Avengers Captain Commando Car Polo Checkmate Comotion Cops'n Robbers Crime Fighters Crypt Killer Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat Dark Adventure Dead Connection Desert Assault Dungeons and Dragons : Shadow Over Mystara Dungeons and Dragons : Tower of Doom Dunk Mania Dynablaster Euro Champ '92 Escape Kids Exvania Face Off Football Champ Gauntlet Gauntlet II Gladiator GI Joe Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder Growl Hard Dunk Hat Trick Hero Hat Trick Hero '95 Heated Barrel High Impact Football Hit Me Hit the Ice Hook Hyper Sports Special John Elway's Team Quarterback Judge Dredd Karate Blazers Knights of Valor Knights of Valor 2 Knuckle Heads Main Event Metamorphic Force Mystic Warriors NBA on NBC NBA on NBA Gold NBA Jam NBA Jam Tournament Edition NBA Hangtime NBA Maximum Hangtime NBA Showtime NBA Slam Dunk Ninja Baseball Batman Ninja Kids Numan Athletics NFL Blitz NFL Blitz 99 NFL Blitz 2000/Gold Oriental Legend Pigout Power Drive Powered Gear: Strategic Variant Armor Equipment Punk Shot Quartet Racin' Force Rim Rockin' Basketball Ring Rage Run and Gun Run and Gun 2 Runark Rushing Heroes Sangokushi II Saturday Night Slam Masters aka Muscle Momber Duo Senjou no Ookami II Silent Dragon Snow Bros. 2 - With New Elves Spiderman Star Guards Sunset Riders Super Cup Finals Super High Impact Tecmo Bowl Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Turtles in Time TouchDown Fever TouchDown Fever 2 Tournament Cyberball 2072 Tournament Table Trog Turbo Force Undercover Cops US Championship V'ball Vendetta Violent Storm Vs. Tennis Warlords Warriors of Fate Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey Wheel Of Fortune Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa World Soccer Finals WWF Wrestlefest X-Men 3 player: Alien vs Predator Championship Sprint Combatribes Double Dragon 3 - The Rosetta Stone Hot Rod Iron Ivan Stewart's Super Off-Road Knights of the Round Mercs Michael Jackson's Moonwalker Pit Fighter Rampage Rampage World Tour Rampart Super Sprint Xenophobe |
| Generic Eric:
What are your current top ten favorite games you intend to play on this? What program are you using for MAME now? What PC are you going to use? A MAME arcade machine is a large investment of time and financial resources. I feel you should be able to answer these before you order parts. You don't have to answer me, but just think about it. You may have lots of both, but let the question serve as a sanity check before you start this project. |
| jdbailey1206:
--- Quote from: Generic Eric on November 19, 2014, 11:01:33 am ---What are your current top ten favorite games you intend to play on this? What program are you using for MAME now? What PC are you going to use? A MAME arcade machine is a large investment of time and financial resources. I feel you should be able to answer these before you order parts. You don't have to answer me, but just think about it. You may have lots of both, but let the question serve as a sanity check before you start this project. --- End quote --- +1 I went into my bartop guns ablazin' and I really was disappointed in the final result. I'm now in the process of taking it apart and piecing it out and creating a Star Wars cab and a Nintendo cabaret. My FFJr cab on the other hand was a methodical creation that I spent up to a month on answering my own questions, doing research and making a product list before I even started cutting on my MDF. Eric brings up a good point by telling you to ask yourself questions. Or if you will, do research. If you don't get it done at Christmas thats okay. Money doesn't have an expiration date. You can still tell the wife and kiddos that you would like arcade parts and tell them that you will have a set number when you feel you have a firm grasp on what you want. I also found myself getting too greedy with everything I wanted on the bartop cab. I wanted emulators, 4 way games, 8 ways, shmups, and PC games. It really bit me in the ass. Now recreating the bartop (into more than 2 seperate cabs), I stepped back, and said, yes I like all of this but together it wont work. Its like dating mutiple girls at the same time. You try to get it to be cohesive but in the end they find out about each other and the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- hits the proverbial fan. In the end everyone is right. Get a game list and dont be afraid to nix certain games. Say all you have are 4 way 2 button games it would be silly to buy six buttons with an Ultrastix when 2 buttons and a replica Nintendo joystick will nail it. A good starting point would be to get your game list hammered out, go here and put each game in the search bar you enjoy playing. It will give you a run down of the properties of the game including joystick used and how many buttons. There was a web page I used to know of where you could do the opposite (ie put in joystick used and number of buttons and it would pop out a list of games) but I can't find it. From that point you can do research on joysticks, buttons etc and build what you need. And like Malenko said it prolly wont be cheap. You could end up just making a Bartop Arcade Joystick or going crazy like the rest of us and making a full size arcade cab. But its a hobby. Its supposed to be about having fun. Not having to worry about money. (Though having someone there to pull you back from going spend crazy helps. :) ) In the end, get a game list, tell the kids to save their $ for dad for Christmas and meet us back here when more questions present themselves. We'll be here to help. :cheers: |
| yotsuya:
--- Quote from: jdbailey1206 on November 19, 2014, 11:48:46 am --- --- Quote from: Generic Eric on November 19, 2014, 11:01:33 am ---What are your current top ten favorite games you intend to play on this? What program are you using for MAME now? What PC are you going to use? A MAME arcade machine is a large investment of time and financial resources. I feel you should be able to answer these before you order parts. You don't have to answer me, but just think about it. You may have lots of both, but let the question serve as a sanity check before you start this project. --- End quote --- +1 I went into my bartop guns ablazin' and I really was disappointed in the final result. I'm now in the process of taking it apart and piecing it out and creating a Star Wars cab and a Nintendo cabaret. My FFJr cab on the other hand was a methodical creation that I spent up to a month on answering my own questions, doing research and making a product list before I even started cutting on my MDF. Eric brings up a good point by telling you to ask yourself questions. Or if you will, do research. If you don't get it done at Christmas thats okay. Money doesn't have an expiration date. You can still tell the wife and kiddos that you would like arcade parts and tell them that you will have a set number when you feel you have a firm grasp on what you want. I also found myself getting too greedy with everything I wanted on the bartop cab. I wanted emulators, 4 way games, 8 ways, shmups, and PC games. It really bit me in the ass. Now recreating the bartop (into more than 2 seperate cabs), I stepped back, and said, yes I like all of this but together it wont work. Its like dating mutiple girls at the same time. You try to get it to be cohesive but in the end they find out about each other and the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- hits the proverbial fan. In the end everyone is right. Get a game list and dont be afraid to nix certain games. Say all you have are 4 way 2 button games it would be silly to buy six buttons with an Ultrastix when 2 buttons and a replica Nintendo joystick will nail it. A good starting point would be to get your game list hammered out, go here and put each game in the search bar you enjoy playing. It will give you a run down of the properties of the game including joystick used and how many buttons. There was a web page I used to know of where you could do the opposite (ie put in joystick used and number of buttons and it would pop out a list of games) but I can't find it. From that point you can do research on joysticks, buttons etc and build what you need. And like Malenko said it prolly wont be cheap. You could end up just making a Bartop Arcade Joystick or going crazy like the rest of us and making a full size arcade cab. But its a hobby. Its supposed to be about having fun. Not having to worry about money. (Though having someone there to pull you back from going spend crazy helps. :) ) In the end, get a game list, tell the kids to save their $ for dad for Christmas and meet us back here when more questions present themselves. We'll be here to help. :cheers: --- End quote --- Great advice, homie. :cheers: |
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