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

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Kremmit:


--- Quote from: unclet on March 14, 2007, 04:01:46 pm ---How about ....... using the correct thickness of T-molding on the control panel trim so the sides of the control panel top (including the plexiglass) are covered to give the control panel a much more finished look.

Gotta be in the Top10 .....  right Paige?

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Doubt you're gonna get agreement from Paige on that one- he hates plexi on control panels.  Hates it.


--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on March 15, 2007, 08:04:34 pm ---Are there 2 player 4-way games?
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Wizard of Wor.  Xybots.  And Karate Champ has two players with two 4-ways each, for a total of 4 sticks. 

paigeoliver:

Wizard of Wor is actually a 9-way game. You can only go up, down, left or right, but there are two levels of up, two levels of down, etc. Fairly playable with a 4-way though. Xybots has sticks with other degrees of movement as well (they twist). Also, if I remember correctly Xybots is actually a game that supports 8-way sticks great, but just has 4-way sticks on it.

Quite a few puzzle games are simultaneous 2 players with 4-ways. Although most of them play fine with an 8-way.

Also, there is Puckman Pockimon, and quite a few pre 80 games, which can be up to 4 players with 4-way sticks.

squirrellydw:


--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 14, 2007, 10:06:57 am ---
Those sticks may need to be reversed for us lefties.

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yeah, thats how mine is set up

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--- Quote from: btp2k2 on March 14, 2007, 08:17:49 pm ---
--- 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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Nice rant! I completely agree....I started building those monsters....the Lusid clones, 35" deep by 30" wide...friggin monsters. Don't get me wrong...Lusid made mimself a great looking cab....but imagine 2 or 3 of those beasts in a room! Now I prefer the classics. I am in the process of painting a Centipede clone (paint is drying as I type this...stinking the room up) and getting ready to build an Assault clone. Granted, I do enjoy having a multi-game capable machine, so I alter them a tad to accomodate some different controls, but for the most part they are clones of the originals. I love the way the old cabs looked, pre "Shelf" style control panels....with the CP part of the cab itself...

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I'm on the fence on this one and it hurts.  ;)

A nicely done and properly organized non frankenpanel larger machine is far better for my health and welfare (my wife would kill me) than having 8 different machines cluttering up a couple of rooms or garage. Let's be realistic, most people don't have the money,  space or time for several smaller cabs and therefore opt for the larger "all in 1" solutions. As long as the control panel doesn't look like the "Skittles" one below, then all is good. It would be nice in theory to have every single game I've enjoyed playing in all it's glory with original controllers, artwork and feel, but it just isn't practical at all for the majority of us.

http://www.wickedretarded.com/~crapmame/10.html


btp2k2:

OMG! I think we just found a candidate for the "Top 10 Mistakes" thread....

That is the ugliest piece of ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- I have ever seen (Next to that "cabinet" that dude was trying to sell on Ebay a while back)

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