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Mame vs Jamma pcb on arcade cabinet???
paigeoliver:
I have never found any decent reason to use both Mame and jamma boards in the same cabinet. It is an essentially needless complication. 98ish percent of the jamma boards out there are emulated perfectly (or close enough that you would never notice) in mame. Just buy a second cabinet if you are really going to get into collecting the tiny number of jamma boards that both aren't emulated properly in mame AND can be played with standard controls.
Jack Burton:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on February 06, 2013, 11:22:54 pm ---I have never found any decent reason to use both Mame and jamma boards in the same cabinet. It is an essentially needless complication. 98ish percent of the jamma boards out there are emulated perfectly (or close enough that you would never notice) in mame. Just buy a second cabinet if you are really going to get into collecting the tiny number of jamma boards that both aren't emulated properly in mame AND can be played with standard controls.
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If you're involved in a competitive gaming it's always better to have the ability to switch over to the PCB's for games you are hardcore about.
paigeoliver:
And then you can totally spend $100-$300 for a second cabinet to swap the boards into, heck the boards we are talking about cost nearly as much as the cabinet does.
--- Quote from: Jack Burton on February 06, 2013, 11:30:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on February 06, 2013, 11:22:54 pm ---I have never found any decent reason to use both Mame and jamma boards in the same cabinet. It is an essentially needless complication. 98ish percent of the jamma boards out there are emulated perfectly (or close enough that you would never notice) in mame. Just buy a second cabinet if you are really going to get into collecting the tiny number of jamma boards that both aren't emulated properly in mame AND can be played with standard controls.
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If you're involved in a competitive gaming it's always better to have the ability to switch over to the PCB's for games you are hardcore about.
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MTPPC:
I think I'm going to strip an nintendo super system in a dynamo cabinet and use the dynamo as a generic JAMMA cabinet. I'm acquiring a number of JAMMA boards and the way the control panel pulls out with the board, it will make for easy switching.
WRT OP, I fully agree to use a J-Pac and switch the JAMMA connector between the J-Pac and the JAMMA boards when you want to use those. I don't care for the arcadeVGA, but it is a lot easier solution than Soft15khz for CGA graphics at original resolutions.