I've been gone for years from BYOC......

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leapinlew:
Not sure what BYOC is, but maybe it's a couch party and you got to bring your own? :dunno

Anyhow, back in 2003, when Mamemaster joined, it was a simpler time. No easy solutions. No Arcade1up's. No Encoders. No Raspberry Pi's. Just grinding and spending more hours building than you could ever recoop playing. CRT's was the only game in town.

Here is a time machine of a post:

--- Quote from: MameMaster! on April 18, 2003, 11:22:29 am ---Hello fellow Mamers.....

....I know you've all felt the same shiver that I did the first time I actually figured out MAME and what a "magical" and amazing program it can be.

...here's how it started for me:

Back in early Jan. I came across XArcade. I though hmm...that's cool....I have a Playstation (1), Dreamcast and an XBox....that stick would work with them all....cool!

After using the stick for about a week...my gears started turning....hmmm...."all I need is an empty cab and I can literally make an arcade machine." Well, within about 3 weeks...one thing let to another and before I knew it I found a local guy in NJ at Basementarcade.com who was selling old/rundown cabs for only $35.00. After we spoke for another $20. he said he would deliver it to me.

I won't bore you with all of the details...but in a short time I had all 3 consoles running in the cab.....gaming heaven!

Any way, I kept reading about MAME and visited a few rom sites....(with no roms)....and figured ah forget this MAME thing.....it's too complicated. But, being the type of person that I am, I was too intrigued with the concept of 1600+ real arcade games.....well obviously I figured it out.

Here's where I stand:
60 gig; Pentium 4; 256 ram
19" flat screen VGA
VGA switcher box with XBox, Dreamcast and PC attached
1600 + MAME Games (and counting)
15 XBox games (including XBox live)
50+ Dreamcast games
50 Pinball Machines (PC Pinball Madness)
45 Slots Machines (Bally's Slots)
Arcade Jukebox 7; with 3000+ MP3s(Mark Schwartz)
XArcade Solo
Oscar Spinner 3 (with engraved spinner)
and coming soon a 50's retro stool and XArcade Trackball.

GAMING HEAVEN!!!!

Here's a pic of my before (I hope I attached it properly!)....and I've included a web link to Oscar Spinner's web site that houses pics of my "after".

Thanks to this "community" for truly giving me hours, days and literally months of gaming joy!

HERE'S THE AFTER:
http://www.oscarcontrols.com/customers/gerson/

The Mame Master
::)

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opt2not:

--- Quote from: yotsuya on March 21, 2019, 06:56:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: MameMaster! on March 21, 2019, 06:18:17 pm ---Lew you're my Arcades Muse.

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That was the old Lew. The New Lew is all about fighting the Power. ;)

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Well, the old and new Lew still thinks Time Pilot and Gyruss should be played with a spinner...so I'm still on the fence. ;)

PL1:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on March 22, 2019, 05:26:12 pm ---Here is a time machine of a post:

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. . . with a few pictures from the link courtesy of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. ;D

Scott

leapinlew:
Nice find Scott!

Mamemaster - what's up with this machine? Where's it at?

daywane:
Same here.
I came back last week.
1UP cabs got me back into arcade building

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