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Kremmit:

--- Quote from: chrisinauz on July 30, 2004, 03:56:47 pm ---Anyone have any cool ideas for the top monitor?? Been thinking of SOMTHING I could put up there that would be cool, thinking somthing dual display type...
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Too bad it's not still a Super Punch Out- cool game.
Since it's not, though, why not throw a flat panel monitor in the empty spot and run Winamp/your jukebox software of choice on it?
chrisinauz:
Ya a lot of people said "WHY ARE YOU MAMING SUPER PUNCH OUT!! ITS A CLASSIC!" haha not to me, and I dont have $400 to shell out for a flat screen monitor haha far beyone my budget I can still barley afford an ArcadeVGA which I dont even have yet haha so the vertical scrolling on mame is ---smurfy--- and I cant even run it! I cant only run emulators like zsnes, nesticle etc..
Ghoward:
I hate to sound mean but what is neat about putting a Car Radio into a Arcade machine? I don't think I've ever been to a arcade and seen one it doesn't belong there.

If you want a radio why not mount it behind the coin door.

Gary
Howard_Casto:
Agreed... besides that, some common sense to be applied.  There is a cdplayer in many cabinets, it's called a CDROM. :P

Also there are radio cards you can get for the pc.  Most are bundled with tv-tuners but there are some old-school parallel port ones you could get for practically nothing if you were to look around on ebay.  


This isn't a new idea either... it's been done several times before.  Unfortunately, this kind of proves that we don't learn from our mistakes around here.  

Oh and chrisinauz,

So basically what you are telling us is you can't afford to fix your cabinet so you mamed a classic and yet you even admit it still sucks?  I don't see the logic behind that.  It's like if someone found a Picasso in their basement and painted over top of it because they couldn't afford a new canvas and yet they are a mere amateur at painting.  

That doesn't make sense and it's quite unintellegent imho.  From the sounds of things the cab worked when you got it.  didn't it ever occur to you to sell the cabinet you someone that would enjoy it whole and use the money to buy a more "mameable" generic cab?

If your happy that's great, but I always find it offensive that just because someone lacks respect for older cabinets that they feel it's ok to do whatever they want with them.  Of course you have the legal right, but ask yourself this...  Do you have the moral right to trash a cab you know someone out there could have paid handsomely for with the invalid justification of "I couldn't afford anything else"?

Also respectfully, could you watch your use of language?  It doesn't offend me at all, but this is considered a "family" board and some parents let their children browse here.  If enough bad words are found on the site m$ safe search thingy deems a site "adult" and blocks it from the kiddies.  


I'm not trying to disrespect you, merely stating my opinion.  
chrisinauz:
Well I see some people have some biast opinions haha, who said I trashed the cabinet? And who said it wasnt mameable, it works perfect besides the fact that im not even running an ArcadeVGA card.

And im sorry if it offends some of you that I "destroyed" in your minds a "Classic" but some people have some diffrent meanings of the word "Classic" In my mind it wasnt a classic and never will be! Now if it was a Bubble Bobble machine THEN we'd have a whole nother story....

And for a "Authentic" MAME machine, there is no such thing, how many arcade machine have you seen that have 5012 games on em? Thats not AUTHENTIC... most people dont build MAME machine to go for authenticity, they build them for fun and for that classic arcade game feel....

And as for the CD Player, I explained the reason because a Soundcard does not output squat worth of power, so you get very horrible sound unless you buy a 5.1 amplified system... I particullarly like it but apparantly everyone has there diffrences! I had fun with this project and will continue to, so rock on mamers...
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