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armad1ll0:
I have a friend that bought a mint TMNT cab like that to build his out of. It's been untouched since he got it. I keep on telling him that he just needs the ArcadeVGA video card... but he's draggin his feet.

MrBond:
I tell ya, now that it's up and running, I really love my cabinet. Everything I could have hoped for! Closest thing to actually being in the arcades. I was on vacation last week at Seaside Heights, New Jersey. While on the boardwalk, I found an arcade called "Flashback's", I entered in, thinking it would be just like the rest, but this one was different. It actually had many older arcade games that I had heard of, and played in MAME, but had never actually played in the arcades (I just turned 20, so I never really went to the arcades). I got to experience Mr. Do!, Donkey Kong, Star Wars, Space Invaders, Q-bert, Tempest, and Gyruss, all in their original glory! The artwork on some of those machines, especially the bezels is awesome! Road blasters, asteroids, kung foo, ms pacman, space invaders deluxe, mario bros, popeye, galaga, and a host of other great games were there too! I would have spent the whole day there had it not been for the heat...they needed air conditioning.
Interestingly enough, they also had a machine that played around 30 games, I think it was an called an ultra arcade or something to that effect. Does anyone know more about these commercial "multi game" machines? The one at flashbacks had a real cool "front end", a big screen, and a podium type control panel complete with bench to sit at. Kind of cool...just wondering how they work. Rom/computer based or PCB stacks?

Anyway, back to the original arcade machines...I just thought it was cool to actually play the games as they originally were designed, so I can see how my controls compare. The star wars yoke was GREAT! I can vouch that Star Wars with a joystick, trackball, or keyboard (yuck!) is NOTHING like playing it with the yoke. I'm going to eventually have to get one of those babies! And the tempest spinner rocked! I am now a tempest adict! I loved entering my initials in those machines. Hey, just wondering, do some arcade machines keep track of the high scores even after power off? I had my initials in tempest, but the next day they were gone...I know no one beat me....ok maybe someone, but they couldn't have knocked me off the list completely...

Cheers for mame, and even more cheers for the original machines!!!

P.S.
The power button now works flawlessly and is mounted on the top of my cab! Light blue T-molding installed too!!! It really accents the glossy black very well and matches the marquee and control panel art.
Emulaxian is "mame" skinned with the valtane skin available at the 3d-arcade site. I personalized the button layout and also reprogrammed the IPAC for shift buttons, such as F1 (cursor for light gun games), F2 (service mode), F3 (reset), F7 (save), and F6...or did I make it F8? (save). Some others too for visual pinball. I also downloaded a crap load of vp tables at IR pinball. Yippie! :)

MrBond:
Now i remember, I also mapped the F10 (turbo) and F11 (show FPS)...

IIOIOOIOO:
Those ultracade machines are running "not mame" to emulate the games, and have made arrangements to purchase ROM licenses from the original publishers. The operator buys the base platform, which comes with like 82 (?) games, and he can purchase additional game-packs, which come on CD-Rom. Speculation abounds that the guy at some point purchased rights to run a custom version of MAME for his platform, but the lead engineer claims it's a brand-spanking-new original emulator. If nothing else, the development team to game library ratio indicates that they at least "borrowed" emulation code from MAME.

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