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Top 10 Mame design tricks that we don't see enough of.

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Xiaou2:


 You can also put two joysticks vertical in line with each other and  not
have any problems with either.

 

hsstie:


--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on March 13, 2007, 11:55:12 pm ---I'd HAVE to do it with an 8-way bat handle and a TRUE 4-way ball handle...



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Yea i have to agree with you here, im getting ready to put together 2 cabinets myself. That is what i finally decided on. Sure you can go with a switchable joystick, but not only do you have to switch it, but you have to know what position its in. For the same price as 2 switchable sticks ( player 1 and 2 ) i felt i would just put in 2 bat top competetions, and 2 ball top j sticks in each cabinet and be done with it.

FrizzleFried:

Are there 2 player 4-way games?



JoeB:

Here's my list off the top of my head:

- hiding the fact it's a PC (going as far as replacing the XP boot menu, changing the mouse cursor icon to not show, clearing the desktop, black background, etc).
- forcing the usage of coins (especially custom mame coins is really really awesome!)
- spending a god awful amount of timing customizing the launcher rather than use the default, or common themes
- spending a lot more time making a custom look/feel, rather than reuse the original arcade art/common mame art/copy other popular arcade machines.
- get custom stools made/purchased to fit the machine's style!

The bottom line for me is that anyone can take an arcade machine and convert it to a mame machine.  The thing that pushes one's machine to the top is customization, ingenuity, and overall care to details.



TOK:


--- Quote from: spacies on March 14, 2007, 05:08:01 pm ---
My number 1 thing I would like to see more of, is people building classic cabs.

I know its probably boring for you guys but I dont' think there is enough classics being built.

I hate big ass cabinets with a million buttons, 10 trackballs, 50 joysticks and enough lights to drain the national power grid.

I'm all for the classics. You can still tweak them with some fancy products to make 'em look nice.

Knievels machines are cool. So is Bellas Pink one, Psychotechs Bombjack, and VRFs little bartop. And there are many others very nice original designed machines.

But STOP building those super-duper huge cabs.
You wonder why you arent allowed a machine in your house?
THAT is why!

John160 with Tempest.
Hoopstar with Galaga.
Audiomidimans  DK Jr.
The Defender upright and cocktail restorations.

Thats where my heart is.

These guys get stuff all recognition on here because they aren't building something different.
But yet put in as much hard work as anyone else.

Not sure I agree with that at all.

Rant over.



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I'm with you on that one. I wouldn't be able to stand looking at that 8/4 way combo right together. Its hideous. The panel on my fist cab is bugging me so much that its going to get redone again, and it's only got a trackball and two 8 ways with 6 buttons each.

I'm working on my 3rd cab now, and finding that what works for me is to focus on it playing the 20 or 30 games that see frequent use than trying to build for everything. My favorite type of cab now is the one that the typical person couldn't tell was a MAME cab if they walked up to it while the cab it was modeled after was loaded (dedicated art, etc).

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