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DNA666:
Hello all,
I am a computer tech and am looking for a fun and challenging project. I have installed console emulators on my PC before but never arcade. My roomate and I were thinking about buying an arcade machine for our living room when I thought why pay $400-$2000 for a game when the oppurtunity exist for so much more???
Any links to good faqs or beginner tips is appreciated. So please post any help you want to give.
Thanks,
DNA
Warborg:
--- Quote from: DNA666 on March 06, 2003, 06:30:19 pm ---Hello all,
I am a computer tech and am looking for a fun and challenging project. I have installed console emulators on my PC before but never arcade. My roomate and I were thinking about buying an arcade machine for our living room when I thought why pay $400-$2000 for a game when the oppurtunity exist for so much more???
Any links to good faqs or beginner tips is appreciated. So please post any help you want to give.
Thanks,
DNA
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Follow the arrow to get to some good FAQs:
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SirPoonga:
The arrow is pointing at my recycle bin:) Oh, I open the forum up in a new window :P
2slk:
SirPoonga,
You make me laugh, man!
rampy:
--- Quote from: DNA666 on March 06, 2003, 06:30:19 pm ---Hello all,
I am a computer tech and am looking for a fun and challenging project. I have installed console emulators on my PC before but never arcade. My roomate and I were thinking about buying an arcade machine for our living room when I thought why pay $400-$2000 for a game when the oppurtunity exist for so much more???
Any links to good faqs or beginner tips is appreciated. So please post any help you want to give.
Thanks,
DNA
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This whole site is a faq... and there's tons of howto's and answers within the msg board part too...
Let us help you help yourself... er...
can you provide more info about what your goals are?
What games do you like (did you like) ? how handy are you with wood working tools an/or electronics?
hypothetically if you found a working jamma cabinet (most cabs after 1986 are probably jamma or jamma+) that had the control panel layout you wanted, you could shlop in a jpac in to the jamma harness (for ease of wiring), and get an ultimarc UltraVGA card, wire up the kick harness (if applicable) toss in a PC and some basic mame/frontend set up and whammo.. there you go... (note: that's not necessarily the best way, and certainly not the only way.... but you didn't really give us much more to work on than "I like games" "more games good!")
*Shrug* ymmv (But I don't care about your mileage as I don't pay for your gasonline... maybe there is such a thing as taking an analogy too far?!)
rampy