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ok let's all tell a story on how we found BYOAC.
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fastredpacman:
I saw a guy at work playing metal slug on his pc and I thought he was playing it on a PS1. When I asked him he said it wasnt on a ps 1 but on an emulator. I asked him if he could show me and he said look it up on the web and when i started doing research I found this site! ;D
M3talhead:
I started out in NES emulation (Nesticle) in the mid-late 90's when a friend of mine showed me how he could play SMB on his computer. I then found out about MAME rummaging through some random ROM site looking for other emulators.

I got into cab building by being broke,  believe it or not. I was in my first apartment after I got in the military and had no furniture, just a bed. I thought to myself, "How cool would it be to have a coffee table with an arcade built into it?!?".

The rest is history.
pmc:
I'd been using MAME since like 0.34 or something like that but had never considered a cabinet or real arcade controls. A couple of years ago a friend suggested that we build a cabinet around a dedicated MAME PC. We thought we were the first to think of it.
Infinity_Yak:
I was looking for a copy of SNESKey in 1997 or 1998... whenever Callus/Nesticle/Genecyst were out.  I wanted to interface my SNES and Genesis arcade sticks to my PC through the parallel port of my old P166MMX.  Went looking on the web and found this site back when it was just a FAQ page- it had lots of good stuff on it, even back then!  Been lurking ever since... getting all sorts of crazy ideas ;)

Since 1999 I've been wanting to build an arcade cabinet.

Since then, I've built countless PC/Console game adapters, a Dreamcast->PC Serial port adapter, a luggable joystick-box console (the portable Markade), and am in the process of Tastefully mameing a poorly converted Tron->Two Tigers cabinet.

MYX:
About mid 1999 I found MAME and started thinking that there has got to be a way to hook up actual arcade buttons to a keyboard instead of beating the living stuffings out of the space bar. (ooh run on sentance hell!!!). I Yahoo'd something like arcade buttons and found this site. I look back in amazement that I didn't loose my job due to the major drop in productivity. I love this site. My wife however...   
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