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Is there demand for retro games onsite?
rchadd:
--- Quote from: JoyMonkey on May 11, 2005, 09:11:15 am ---I was at a bar in Boston over the weekend (actually it was Kings Bowling) and they have a showcase-style machine with a 36" vertical monitor running what looked like a homebrew front-end and Frogger, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, MsPac-Man (with speedup hack), 1942, BurgerTime, Galaga, Dig Dug and Rally-X.
The thing had a messed up 8-way joystick that sprung back too hard, so when you moved it forward and then centered it, it would always hit down- this made Frogger a complete pain in the arse and Donkey Kong was impossible.
One nice thing was that when you selected a game in the frontend (after inserting coins), the screen faded straight to the games title screen very smoothly. The atract mode fades in and out of each games attract mode- as if the games are constantly running behind the frontend.
There were people constantly playing it. I can't see Namco allowing people to put it's roms in a machine alongside Nintendo and Capcom games though, so I'm sure it's completely illegal.
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hey the FE sounds like something like this (see screenshots on page 3). Is it?
http://www.jsclassics.net/jsclassicsmultiplay.pdf
It even states it is based on MAME!
i am wondering how it handles passing the coins count into the game?
paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: rchadd on May 11, 2005, 06:06:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: JoyMonkey on May 11, 2005, 09:11:15 am ---I was at a bar in Boston over the weekend (actually it was Kings Bowling) and they have a showcase-style machine with a 36" vertical monitor running what looked like a homebrew front-end and Frogger, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, MsPac-Man (with speedup hack), 1942, BurgerTime, Galaga, Dig Dug and Rally-X.
The thing had a messed up 8-way joystick that sprung back too hard, so when you moved it forward and then centered it, it would always hit down- this made Frogger a complete pain in the arse and Donkey Kong was impossible.
One nice thing was that when you selected a game in the frontend (after inserting coins), the screen faded straight to the games title screen very smoothly. The atract mode fades in and out of each games attract mode- as if the games are constantly running behind the frontend.
There were people constantly playing it. I can't see Namco allowing people to put it's roms in a machine alongside Nintendo and Capcom games though, so I'm sure it's completely illegal.
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hey the FE sounds like something like this (see screenshots on page 3). Is it?
http://www.jsclassics.net/jsclassicsmultiplay.pdf
It even states it is based on MAME!
i am wondering how it handles passing the coins count into the game?
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It is almost certainly just a 9 in 1 board, and not a Mame cabinet. Every game listed is available on the X-In-1 Jamma boards. I see those on location fairly frequently, still never seen a Mame cabinet on location.
JoyMonkey:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on May 11, 2005, 06:23:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: rchadd on May 11, 2005, 06:06:23 pm ---hey the FE sounds like something like this (see screenshots on page 3). Is it?
http://www.jsclassics.net/jsclassicsmultiplay.pdf
It even states it is based on MAME!
i am wondering how it handles passing the coins count into the game?
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It is almost certainly just a 9 in 1 board, and not a Mame cabinet. Every game listed is available on the X-In-1 Jamma boards. I see those on location fairly frequently, still never seen a Mame cabinet on location.
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It's not that frontend anyway.
It could be a 9 in 1 board alright. You put coins in at the frontend and it passes them through to the game you select (kind of like an AdvMame script). As soon as it's game-over and you put in your name (hiscores weren't saved) it fades back to the front-end. Could all be done with some creative scripting, but I doubt it.
The control panel had the company logo on it, I know I've seen it before; it's an American football player with the company name below it (can't remember what the comapny was, I was on a drinking mission).
rchadd:
hey i just won this on ebay its wired for jamma
where can i get one of those 9 in 1 jamma boards?
what games do they have on it?
JoyMonkey:
I don't have any experience with these multi-boards, but I known that ArcadeShop.com sells some kind of multi-pcb here:
http://arcadeshop.com/multi-pcb/multi-pcb.htm
There's probably someone closer to you that sells them, but you'd probably get a good deal by taking advantage of the cheap dollar (thank you very much GWB :( ).