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| langdoguk:
You don't even need mame 32 ,you just need the roms , just download the front end and put the roms straight into the roms folder and hey presto :applaud: . Thats where I was going wrong trying to use mame 32 with frontends when most of them are looking for mame (command line ). But beware the more you read this forum the more you WANT . I just wanted a few games on a cab , now I want things I havent even played just cos they sound cool on other guy's machine's , and I'll no doubt get worse . :dizzy: Good luck and enjoy :cheers: |
| paigeoliver:
Forget about using an X-Box. I am not sure why you keep talking about needing to get a PCI. You don't need any special cards in your computer to use mame. Were you talking about getting a video card with TV out? Now I do have one important bit of advice relating to that control panel you bought. See the joysticks for player 3 and 4? They are installed wrong. They are angled when they should be faced the same way as the other sticks. Every 4 player game you ever played in the arcade had the sticks all facing the same way and not angled. Matter of fact that could be one of the reasons the guy sold the panel since no one wanted to play player 3 or 4 since the sticks were wrong. Angled sticks are one of the mistakes made by a few of the early cabinet builders who had websites, and now the mistake just keeps getting copied over and over again. Most of the rest of the "most copied mistakes" are in the area of cabinet design, which doesn't really effect usability, but angled sticks do. |
| parpunk:
angled sticks?? i dont get it? They are just off to the side i thought. Would it really effect gameplay that much? As for the PCI, yea i said plenty of times above im getting it for s video out. |
| javeryh:
--- Quote from: parpunk on March 12, 2007, 12:17:13 pm ---angled sticks?? i dont get it? They are just off to the side i thought. Would it really effect gameplay that much? --- End quote --- Yes. The tendency is to push towards the screen when moving "up" - if you angle the sticks theose player will be pushing at a 45 degree angle to move "up". I can't imagine playing something like this. It is completely counterintuitive to me. |
| Tiger-Heli:
Parpunk - MAME is not video card GPU intensive. Here's a couple of links for PCI S-video cards that are inexpensive and should be sufficient (Anything over $50 is throwing money away for MAME): http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&N=2010380048+1069609642+1232814101&Subcategory=48&description=&Ntk=&srchInDesc= http://www.imagestore.us/Items/v27?sck=31085339 http://www.imagestore.us/Items/v35 --- Quote from: parpunk on March 12, 2007, 12:17:13 pm ---angled sticks?? i dont get it? They are just off to the side i thought. Would it really effect gameplay that much? --- End quote --- That has been a running debate on here. What I would recommend is to hook up your control panel to your PC and get MAME running on it now without the new Video Card and TV-out. Then either try to play a game using the P3 and P4 sticks, or rotate the panel 45 degrees and play with the P1 and P2 sticks. If it doesn't bother your or your friends, don't worry too much about it. |
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