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bleemus:

I am wondering what most of the people do here.  People using MAME more, or are you restoring those old cabs?

NIVO:

your forgetting the most obvious here my friend, which is B.Y.O. (build your own). Now of course most BYO's are for mame. Some great instances have been built from scratch original replicas though. Tough to really categorize based upon your options above.

elvis:

In my eyes MAME shouldn't ever belong in anything dedicated or even semi-dedicated.

There's enough generic cookie-cutter cabinets in every country that dno't matter if they get MAMEed.  Here in Australia it's our LAI (Leasure and Allied Industries) "lowboy" cabs.

Anything even semi-dedicated (say, Neo Geo MVS, etc) shouldn't be mamed.  And if you still can't find a generic cab, there's plenty of people selling generic candy cabs, or you can do like I did and build your own from scratch so that you didn't have to butcher someone else's work.

Anything that doesn't fall into any of the above should always be restored.  No question.

johnm160:

Well so far I have just done Mame, I do own one dedicated, swimmer, and one conversion rampage world tour.

Space is always a concern but have a new game room now so I hope to restore a couple I have been looking for but have not been able to find close to me.

Donkey kong is pretty high on my list. I would love Tempest but I have decide that I am just going to have to build a replica instead.



miles2912:

 I have one good solid MAME cab.   Had a Ms.  PacMan but I would still play it on the mame cab if I wanted to play the game.  Sold the Ms. Pac-Man cab and am very happy with just one MAME cab.

Plan it- Build it - Play.

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