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Whats better??Mame machine or an original??

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rollerball:

Hey thats an idea...lol...I could sell the kids as well...lol....the other thing I was thinking...What about those AGP cards you can get so you can plug a pc into an old machine with an arcade moitor???Maybe it would be poss to hook up a small pc inside my original cab and run mame on that into my arcade monitor..do those cards cost much do you know???and would that idea work??Its only a vertical monitor though


97thruhiker:

I have an original Donkey Kong that I restored and a Mame machine that I built from scratch (which I have broken down and plan on rebuilding based on several years of knowledge now, more disposable income now).  Out of the two I play the mame more because of the variety.  If you can only keep one I would keep the mame machine for reasons stated above.  Don't know your situation but I would try to hold on to both if you can.  Gyruss is a fun game. 

thennomeking:

As much as I love mame, been following it since .3 or .4, nothing will replicate the originals enough for me.  Sadly I also do not have the room, others decided to fill my gameroom area with their "storage."   But I am coping by building control panels as stand alone devices.  So when we want to play a capcom fighter, we just hookup the capcom fighter control panel to my shuttle pc and plug it into the 36 inch tv.  It is a FAR strech from a real cab, arcade monitors are simply amazing, but its soul burns on and saves on storage.  It also allows me to build custom controls for specific games I want to play, ie Perfect Cherry Blossom or Virtual-On.  Eventually I will take pictures of these things.

I vote keep the Gyruss, especially if you enjoy the game alot, sell the mame, build a shuttle pc and some control panels.  Or simply an encoder and an arcade vga and temp convert the Gyruss to a vertical mame cab. 

rollerball:

Im now thinking about doing both....taking the pc out of my mame machine and using an arcade vga and a j-pac to run mame on the gyruss machine...anyone know if horizontal games will run on a vertical monitor...even if they come out looking smaller??

rollerball:

Oh and Ive got a Matrox G100 4MB AGP card....Ive seen that it can do 15hz....so maybe I should use that card and just get a j-pac....would that work??any ideas??

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