Whats better??Mame machine or an original??

[rollerball]

Ok Ive got 2 standup machines now...I built my first one...Mame....now Ive got an original with gyruss running inside...YES I was warned about these bloody things multiplying i dont want to end up with 30 of them...lol...anyway I dont have enough room to keep both of them...so one has to go...but do I keep the original or the mame machine???Im thinking of selling the mame machine on ebay and getting a multi vertical board for my original...and collecting a few original boards along the way...Ive bought a Birdie Try gameboard already..lol.....the original is just a vertical one player machine...anyway what do you guys think???what would you do??CHEERS

[Havok]

If you've only got room for one - I would Mame away, unless they don't emulate the games you want properly. There's just too many great games that work perfect in Mame.

[rollerball]

Yeah its a toss up...I do seem to like playing the original machine more though...just because its an original...dont know if that makes sense...and I do LOVE the old classic vertical games....MMMmm I think the mame is looking like the one to be sold still though...I just dont want to sell the wrong one..lol...I guess I could just put mame on my pc for any games I dont have on the original machine....thats another option I guess

[leapinlew]

in my case -

I enjoy having friends and family come over and play games. People want to play different games and when we get together it can be anything from a street fighter tournament, a joust match or a shuffleshot game. I don't have room for all these machines so mame is a great thing for me.

Lastly, mame machines haven't been selling for as much as they used to.

[sfrascella]

If you sell the Mame cab and get a multi board you are probably getting Mame with fewer options. Keep the Mame machine if you like variety.


BTW, if you sell your couch you would have room for 3 more machines. 

[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??

[TOK]

There are only 3 dedicated machines I don't think I'd ever tire of, Robotron, Defender and Stargate. MAME is the better solution if space is an issue or if you're someone who likes variety. I have two MAME cabs now, and I'm working on a third, then the plan is to grab a generic JAMMA and some boards along with a Defender or Stargate and the Robotron.

[FrizzleFried]

Multi-board = MAME with less flexibility.

I vote to keep the MAME cabinet.

If I could only keep one,  I'd keep my Vertical Mame cabinet...to the horror of my wife who plays trackball games on the horizontal cabinet only...

Which means,  I doubt I'll have to make a choice anytime soon.