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Biscuit:

I went to my first arcade auction recently, and some of the cabs were going dirt cheap.  I thought to myself, wouldn't it be cool to buy a handful of cabs and set them up to play several games and then give them to a youth group or something.  Assuming they had decent monitors or you could find cheap TVs to replace bad monitors with, what would be the cheapest legal setup?  Grab some lower spec PCs, load win98 on them?  Are there arcade collection CD's that I could run on them?  Aside from the 2-3 legal roms I read about in Saint's book, is there another collection of legal roms I could obtain and use with Mame?  Should I scrap the PC idea and go with something like a console?

PS - I'd use the search function but it seems to be down right now.   :banghead:

saint:

You could purchase a HotRod from HanaHo and get a set of legal CapCom ROMs. You *might* even be able to contact them to see if they're willing to donate something if you're setting something up for a youth group, though you'd probably have to provide some sort of verifiable proof...

shardian:

Midway Arcade Treasures
Midway Arcade Deluxe Edition
Namco Museum
Atari Arcade Hits


Ebay is probably a good place to hit up.


Biscuit:

Thanks for the prompt helpful responses!

Not to be overly thick, but could anyone give me an idea on how I should launch the games?  I assume I copy all the games onto the HD and use some sort of no CD hack.  I've read a bit on Mame front ends and how you can configure them to launch on startup, but what would I do in this case?

shardian:

I did a quick read-thru on some reviews and some people said the discs had some sort of copy protection on them. Still, DAEMON tools may work with an iso file of the cd. There may also be some cd cracks out on the 'net somewhere that can help too.

Anyways, the discs will have a built in menu system. You could use a  front end to pick the cd you wish to load. Maybe make some custom art for each cd to show what games will be on the cd.

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