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Earthworm:
I've tried to find the answer to this (not just dumping it on the forum).

Do people play new games like Half Life 2 or Battlefield 2 on their arcade cabinets (assuming, of course, that they have powerful computers/graphics cards)?

Do the newer games work well with control panels and trackballs for the mouse?

Thanks,

Earthworm
P.S. I'm starting to catch arcade fever. My poor wife.
Earthworm:
I should also add that I did purchase the book and am reading it. Great tool!
ikyoto:
Techincally yes you will be able to. Basically your controls are a keyboard - i.e. - they are returning keyboard signals. You could remap the controls in HL:2 to work with the configuration you have for mame. And the trackball is just a mouse.

The question would be, would you want to play this way? I find keyboard and mouse better for fps...but the only other controls I've played with are gamepads.

It's possible to play them (hardware willing) just depends on if you want to play them that way.
RayB:
I could envision using a joystick + mouse, but not joystick + trackball.

Skadar:
I could never use arcade controls to play FPS games.  However, I DO play games like Star Monkey and Ultra Assault on my cabinet.  These are modern games that use a 3D card, but they have classic shooter gameplay.
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