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| brian23:
If pac-man is all you want, get the bartop kit http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=45304.0 for $179 and hack a couple Jakks like markrvp did in the above thread. It's actually really easy and won't take as long as a full size cab per se. |
| Tiger-Heli:
OTOH, if you want to stick with MAME or Vantage or AMOAD, booting directly into the game should be no problem. Besides the floppy and USB pendrive, another option would be a bootable CD-ROM with like Knoppix MAME, or even DOS and an emulator on the CD, although I'm not sure how to set it up. |
| juan_caliente:
Would be nice, but: a) We don't have any counter/table space. b) The wife wants the full size The full size complete with artwork and proper 4-way is not negotiable, only the software. |
| Grasshopper:
I wouldn't bother hacking a Jakks unit. They're pretty cool but if you're going to the trouble of building a cab you'll probably want complete authenticity and a second hand PC capable of running MAME can be bought dirt cheap these days. By the way if your motherboard doesn't support USB then as an alternative you could buy an IDE to compact flash converter. |
| juan_caliente:
Would USB or CF memory really boot that much faster? I know I can get a 128mb pen drive for about 10 bucks so it might be worth looking at. I would love for my wife to be able to flip the switch, the lights come on and the ram check for the rom to start running, then pacman. I have everything, the 19" monitor, pc, hd, fd, cdr, ps, buttons, the only thing I don't have is the 4-way ball top, I have 8 ways and the usb or cf memory. I have often thought in the past about loading xp onto a cf card to help with boot times. If I were to put it on a pen drive, use a sb16 for audio and onboard graphics, how fast do you think I could get it to boot to pacman? |
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