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BrentRadio:

Ok, I wanted to start this thread because I am curious about this.

Who here started with building a Mame cab and now is a collector of dedicated originals?

Which way did the flow go? Mame first and then dedicated cabs? Or Dedicated cabs and then Mame?

And has Mame given you a greater appreciation of dedicated cabs or do you look at them as canidates for mameing?

What's your story?

Paul Olson:

I started with a MAME cab in 2003, then made a modular panel for it a couple of years ago. You would think that being able to play so many games with accurate controls would make me less likely to by dedicated machines, but it turned out to be the opposite. Now a have a pinball machine in the dining room and, 6 dedicated cabs in the garage, and another at a friends house until I can move it up here. My MAME cab is probably still my favorite, but that is probably just because it has been an ongoing project for so long. I started buying dedicated games less than a year ago, and I already have my favorite vid (Donkey Kong) and one of my favorite pins (High Speed).

The only dedicated cab that I may MAME someday is the Ridge Racer. It would be great for all of the driving games since it has a 33" monitor. I think it would be a pretty easy conversion and reversible as well. We'll see though, I still need to add the 270 wheel to my current MAME cab. If that doesn't cut it, I may do the sitdown.

I am fascinated with the progression of MAME, and I hope I can contribute to it when I learn more about programming. I look forward to each release, not so much to play new games, but just to see what they accomplished. 

It has been a really fun ride so far. I have a Wii and a 360 to round out the gaming goodness, so I am pretty well set, although I spend way more time working on the games, and searching the forums than I do playing the games.

I have had a lot of hobbies over the years, but none have held my interest as long as this one. 

MK3FAN:

That's exactly what I did. I started by building a Mame cab (Mortal Kombat 3 design)







And now have all 5 dedicated MKs and my Mame cab has been turned into a 'dedicated' Mame.











I also have a dedicated 4-player Simpsons and an original dedicated Donkey Kong currently on it's way to me. Once I got started, I couldn't stop. I thought the Mame cab was all I ever needed. I was MORE than wrong....

CheffoJeffo:

I spent years lurking here and trying to design the perfect "cabinet to play them all" without actually building anything. Then my sister-in-law suggested, out of the blue, that it would be fun to have a cocktail cabinet at the cottage. That wouldn't have to play them all, so I grabbed a generic cocktail from eBay and converted it to run MAME. That was fun and it is still a fun machine to play on.

I picked up a big blue Capcom cab to MAME for my home cabinet. It was running SurfPlanet and my son and another sister-in-law fell in love with SurfPlanet, which was not emulated well at that time. So I looked for a way to leave SurfPlanet in the machine and also have a MAME box. Goz had one of Clay's MultiJAMMA kits for sale, so I grabbed that up and installed it into big blue. Dumped in a Golden Tee 2000 board as well.

From there I went to an auction, picked up a Neo Geo 2-slot, fell in with the local collectors, picked up a Galaga and VS Uni and started my journey down the path to the dark side.

And I *still* haven't put a MAME rig in that big blue cabinet yet.

Malenko:

i couldnt afford a dedicated at the time (least not in good shape) so I horribly MAME'd a horrible conversion, then put that abomination out of its misery. I built a better MAME then started collecting real cabs. I think Neo Geos are the best, cause they are dedicated and still play multiple games ;)

I wish I made more money and had a bigger house, then I'd have alot more to be proud of

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