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whatzcrackn:
CPU cheaper?

No way.  The xbox is $99 used and another $50 to mod it unless you can do it yourself, then it would be $20 more.  So on average $119.99 to $149.99.

The xbox MAME is great for classics and scroll games.  If you are looking to the high quality graphic and some medium graphic games, then this is not for you (xbox that is).  I have two modded xboxes and have never looked back. 


My current cab has a PS2 and Xbox in it.  Why you say, the abilty to play those types of games on the system.  Some games will not play without the digital function, thus I have to open the coin door and have the wireless or wired controllers hooked up.  The wireless controllers actually work with the coin door closed.  So it is not that bad. 

So I guess in the long run it is what you want.  If you want to play MAME and every game on it, then you must go the PC route.  Unless you can find someone to add RAM to the xbox, I have yet to find someone to do it for me.  But it will increase your RAm and open more games.   Either way you should have hours of fun.

My .02 on the subject.  I am off my  :soapbox:

PS
Xbox has some other emulators that run full speed too.  I do not have a problem playing the Neogeo, SNES, N64, and other emulators.  It is MAME that demands that thing called RAM.
BLah247:
I have a modded Xbox.  I run a v1 Xbox with a Xenium Ice mod chip and a 160 gig harddrive.  Can't remember the bios version off hand but it doesn't really matter.  It serves two purposes; One I can backup games onto the drive and play the game off that thus avoiding Xbox's (especially older ones) dvd drive errors which will halt a game in the middle of playing.  The second purpose is to use it as a MAME box and run emulated games.

As far as MAME goes I think it's called MAMEox or something of that sort.  It's extremely easy to set up and runs most the old games fine.  The problem is with some of the newer (by newer I mean mid 90's) games.  There is the ram limitation of being able to load the game.  I think you can get some sort of RAM upgrade but I never bothered.  An example is the Samuri Showdown series... one of my favorite fighting games it will run out of ram and not be able to fully load the game.

In the end the modded Xbox works great as a MAME player supplement for someone who doesn't want to either sit at a computer and play or doesn't want to make a cabinet or control panel.  This has actually tied me over for a few years until I finally broke down and wanted the 'real' arcade expierance by making my own cabinet.
whatzcrackn:

--- Quote from: BLah247 on January 04, 2007, 08:01:10 pm ---I have a modded Xbox.  I run a v1 Xbox with a Xenium Ice mod chip and a 160 gig harddrive.  Can't remember the bios version off hand but it doesn't really matter.  It serves two purposes; One I can backup games onto the drive and play the game off that thus avoiding Xbox's (especially older ones) dvd drive errors which will halt a game in the middle of playing.  The second purpose is to use it as a MAME box and run emulated games.

As far as MAME goes I think it's called MAMEox or something of that sort.  It's extremely easy to set up and runs most the old games fine.  The problem is with some of the newer (by newer I mean mid 90's) games.  There is the ram limitation of being able to load the game.  I think you can get some sort of RAM upgrade but I never bothered.  An example is the Samuri Showdown series... one of my favorite fighting games it will run out of ram and not be able to fully load the game.

In the end the modded Xbox works great as a MAME player supplement for someone who doesn't want to either sit at a computer and play or doesn't want to make a cabinet or control panel.  This has actually tied me over for a few years until I finally broke down and wanted the 'real' arcade expierance by making my own cabinet.

--- End quote ---

Use the Neogeo emulator for Samuri Showdown series.  I play 1-5 with a problem, FBAX and Kwax (could be wrong with the speeling).  Both those emulators loads roms with out a problem.  RAM is not an issue, they some how by pass it and load fine.  NEogeo with the exception of maybe a handful run fine.  WHen I say a handful it is about five or so games.
Mctittles:

--- Quote ---CPU cheaper?
No way.  The xbox is $99 used and another $50 to mod it unless you can do it yourself, then it would be $20 more.
--- End quote ---
Well I didn't look up the prices on that type of system.  I just know that I'm building a 3Mhz Celeron Board /w enough on it to run mame for under $100, so I figured for those specs I could get it for 50 bucks...Just a guess, but in the end I suppose they are both about the same.
jWin:
At first I thought I would use my Xbox for my arcade cabinet, it seemed perfect and looked great, plus you could load Street Fighter III, Mortal Kombat Armageddon onto the hard drive, etc etc,  until I tried midway games in mame, I think MAMEOX .72 plays midway games fairly good, but then you lose a lot of other games so in theory you need to run 2 versions of mame.

If you ignore midway games then xbox is very ideal, it runs neogeo, capcom and MAME classics fairly well,  plus theres other games ported to xbox such as Marvel vs Capcom 2 which no emulator supports.

Xbox Pros:
Component video connection
SFIII series
Mortal Kombat Armageddon
Marval Vs Capcom 2
Capcom Vs SNK 2 EO
Guilty Gear
Soul Calibur 2
Dead or Alive series

Xbox Cons:
Midway games dont run well (MK, MK2, MK3, UMK3, NBA Jam and more)
Requires more then 1 emulator

So in the end I decided to go ahead and use a PC for everything and still hookup a Xbox for the non-emulated games, with a component video selector box, and eventually a ipac2 xbox adapter.
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