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a few arcade system questions
severdhed:
if you are planning on only playing classics like pacman and galaga, why not go with a PC instead of an N64? with the n65, you are going to have to hack some gamepads and do a good bit of soldering to get the controls interfaced properly. you are also going to have to mount the n64 in a way that allows you access to the cartridge slot to change games, Unless you are only planning on using Namco Museum. if you want to be able to play the more advanced N64 games, then you are going to have to try to find some way to interface an analog stick of some kind into your control panel, which could be pretty difficult.
on the other hand, if you look around, you could more than likely find an older PC for cheap, or free that would be more than suitable for playing the classics in mame....some of the older versions of mame run pretty well on crappy computers. then you have the luxury of using one of several control interfaces that are easy to work with and programmable. this would also get you a much larger list of games to choose from.
Turnarcades:
Does seem like a fruitless excercise if playing classics is what you wanna do. Saying that, a lot of noobs and potential customers have come to me in the last few months wanting to use a console hack inside their arcade. It seems the generation divide is now showing as people want that classic arcade machine they saw as yongsters and we enjoyed as teenagers, but want to play modern games. The silliest request I had was to build a system suitable of emulating (and I quote) "PS1, PS2, Dreamcast, Saturn, Gamecube and X-Box, but if that impossible I can live without the Gamecube or could you just hack a few consoles inside there?".
The absolute limit I bother with is PS1, and that's only for the huge crop of great fighting games that suck ass in MAME.