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picked up a MAME w/cab the other day........
CartridgeStealer:
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The RAM seems to be the 2 strips of pins type, so they'll be 16mb x4 lots.
I'd say the board is maxed out pretty much.
Those older AT style ones probably won't go much above the 300Mhz processor already in it.
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thanks. I kinda had a feeling that there wasnt much more I could do with the current hardware. Someone told me years ago that the stuff in the late 90's wasnt able to be upgraded.
is it easy to swap it out? and if so, what could be put in its place?
More Cowbell:
I can't believe that someone hacked a classic "Video Game" cab to make a MAME cab. ;)
Sir Auros:
Honestly, I'd leave it as it is unless you're set on replacing the control panel. It looks pretty good for what it is - a cabinet dedicated to retro games.
CartridgeStealer:
Im more or less pissed that there are so many games that arent on there such as return of the jedi, mario brothers, pac land, sub roc, and a bunch of others that came out around the time the others were released.
Malenko:
--- Quote from: CartridgeStealer on August 09, 2007, 07:42:10 pm ---Im more or less pissed that there are so many games that arent on there such as return of the jedi, mario brothers, pac land, sub roc, and a bunch of others that came out around the time the others were released.
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so get a cheap used P3 computer and update the roms. You could easily add another button in there too. if you redo the control panel, you could prolly move the spinner over a tick, the controller to the left a lil more, then add a Street Fighter button layout, but then you'd be limited to a 1 player cab.
if you kill the giant spinner you could do you controller layout like mine:
hit up craigslist, I saw a P4 3.2 system go for a couple of hundred the other day, with a KB,mouse,monitor,etc
honestly though, for a large portion of the games you dont need that powerful of a processor especially the Street Fighter games and ROTJ