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restoring arcade cabs with mame?
garnerb350:
This is a question I am trying to figure out...
I might be able to get a hold of some empty cabs in the nearby future...
I was thinking of making some dedicated cabs when i get em...
Now I have only built one mame cab (my first) and I have all the games, running off a frontend...blah,blah, blah....
Is there a way to run a mame game without a frontend?
Like can I get a old junk computer and have it run mame with 1-3 games and have it where I can just turn it on...the games pops up and i can switch it off and thats it?
My main concern is that i want to get into the restoration side of cabs...
I got the fever!
bkenobi:
Certainly. If you load DOS on the computer, just set up a command in the autoexec.bat file to call "mame.exe <rom>". DONE! :afro:
Ginsu Victim:
If you MAME it, that's not a restoration.
garnerb350:
--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on June 25, 2009, 02:58:17 pm ---If you MAME it, that's not a restoration.
--- End quote ---
I know Ginsu...I know...
but you got understand...i have a Cadillac mind with a Pinto wallet...:gobama
plus taking baby steps till i get to PCBs...
Ginsu Victim:
I feel the same way. If it at least appears to be the real thing until you can manage to get the real boards, I see nothing wrong with that.