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Just curious - MAME vs. collecting - one or both?

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mj147:

Well personally I have 2 Mame cabinets and feel like I need a third  ::)  One is a mini and has snes and nes games while my full size is set up as a 2 player fighter style. My third is planed with a dedicated 4 way and vertically mounted monitor.

I recently acquired a Karate Champ in  need alot of work both cosmetically and structurally, but will enjoy the restoration aspect of it. KC has always been a favorite of mine but turning my Mame cab into a frankenpanel for it was not an option.

I love the shape and grafx of some of the older cabinets that a "standard" Mame cab just cant reproduce.

Currently looking for a nintendo and Neogeo cab in my area,   then maybe ill stop ................



mj147

 

ryantheleach:

Mame for me, the only arcade games ive ever played are "remnants" or Jamma cabs,

the only original machine that I've properly played that I'm guaranteed is an original and not a conversion is a space invaders cocktail that dad had left over from when he had a pizza bar + arcade. he sold the rest but kept that!

so there is no "nostalgia" factor in it for me, plus the space/cost makes it fairly well impossible for me to even consider it.



DJ_Izumi:

My problem is I prefer the 90's era of big and complicated machines over what you guys are playing.  Which sure, you can get the games running some emulators, you're stuck with subpar controls often because they demand more than a joystick and some buttons.

Hey, Alpine Racer works fine in MAME, but without an actual Alpine Racer cab or one HELL of a replica it will not even come CLOSE to be being the same as the arcade.

For light guns which I'm a fan of, I stick to console ports cause... It's just a MILLION times easier to get an authentic experience and easily going light guns on the console than it is with MAME.  ...Though I'm seriously considdering building some Time Crisis 2/3 duck pedals.  Apparently in TC 2 and 3, EVERY button on a connected DualShock acts as a duck button.  It'd be easy enough to wire up. :D

bradx:

for me, mame cured the itch to get a bunch of video game cabs.  i had a centipede cocktail that was almost working in good condition and i traded it for an early 80s atari upright to mame just so i would have at least one working cab. 

mame is good for some 4 way and most 8 way joystick games.  i have it set up with 2 joysticks each with 6 buttons.  it has the original speakers and working coin door.

now what i want is a vertical cab to mame with a 4 way/8 way switchable joystick, a pac cab with multi pac installed, and a bunch of EMs and pins.

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