Need help on computer specs?

[Tiger-Heli]

Ok guys i hooked everything up and everything seems to work. But i am having a few problems.

1: My keyboard seems to have power even though i shut down the computer. I can see the NUM LOCK light or CAPS LOCK light glowing if i press it.

Pretty common on newer computers.  Mine does this also.  I wouldn't worry about it.  Unless it really bothers you, then you could maybe tape over the lights?

2: I'm testing my computer with my x-arcade. It works fine on this computer but when i try it on my new computer it doesn't work. The buttons only work on neogeo games. But when i play anything else it doesn't do anything. That coin up and start buttons work, as well as the joystick. But other than that i can't kick, punch.shoot, ect....

I'm guessing MAME is pointing to a different set of cntrl.ini files than the X-Arcade directory.  Maybe related to 3. below. . .

3: I'm using win98 and running mame32. Why can't i see the titles of my games? I even tried changing the font and enlarging it to as high as 72 and i still can't see anything.
Thanks.

There a setting in MAME32 to refresh the game list, not sure how to do it, though. . .

[tapnout]

OK that's cool. The lights don't bother me. I was just worried i hooked something up wrong or something.

Refreshed mame and now i see the fonts.

As for the controls i just put in a new set of ini. files and it all works now.

Thanks tiger-heli.

[pointdablame]

Just wanted to say congrats on the build.  You'll never buy a brand name computer again

[gregor7777]

Ok guys i hooked everything up and everything seems to work. But i am having a few problems.

1: My keyboard seems to have power even though i shut down the computer. I can see the NUM LOCK light or CAPS LOCK light glowing if i press it.

Thanks.

It's not a problem at all. The motherboard has a feature called Keyboard Power Up, which allows you to power up the computer with a keyboard press. Usually it is the NumLock or some such key. Tiger Heli is correct, many newer motherboards have this feature. Personally I like it on my desktop system, and incidently it could be used to power up an arcade system with a button wired and mapped to it (I haven't tried this but I can't see why it wuldn't work).

If you look through your BIOS there usually is a way to turn the feature off if it bothers you or you won't be using it.

[tapnout]

Hey guys if you want to see me first CP i'm about done with it.

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=10;action=display;threadid=23864