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| tightwad:
With all the information available, I am not sure you CAN read up on everything...or even enough. I figure I will convert to a computer in the near future, but this will get the ball rolling, and then I can become a multiple arcade owner or something. I was thinking 'XYZ-Arcade" for a title, as the "OurCade" we came up with at first has been used (as have most titles I am sure) |
| mwong168:
If you use your Xbox won't you have to interface your arcade joystick and buttons via pad hack? As for what to use for the screen, if I didn't have my 27" Panasonic Tau tube tv I probably would have gone with a 32" LCD and did a Vewlix style cabinet with 4 players. |
| saurian333:
--- Quote from: mwong168 on January 07, 2010, 01:00:35 am ---If you use your Xbox won't you have to interface your arcade joystick and buttons via pad hack? --- End quote --- That's a good point. Is that your plan, tightwad? I haven't seen any other way of doing it. Come to think of it, I haven't seen a mod for the original X-box either; are you talking about a 360? There are lots of tutorials for that out there, and it doesn't look too hard if you're OK with a soldering iron. By the way, I don't know anything about an adapter from Xbox to VGA, though I'm sure they exist. If it's a 360, though, don't all models other than the Arcade version (how ironic that the "Arcade" is the cheapest crap of the lot) have HDMI ports? If that's the case, you just need an HDMI-to-DVI cable if you want to go to a monitor, and you can get that very cheap on eBay. (If the monitor in question doesn't have DVI, you can get HDMI-to-VGA as well, but I haven't tried that personally. The HDMI-to-DVI works great with my monitor and PS3.) |
| mwong168:
--- Quote from: saurian333 on January 07, 2010, 05:01:44 am ---That's a good point. Is that your plan, tightwad? I haven't seen any other way of doing it. Come to think of it, I haven't seen a mod for the original X-box either; are you talking about a 360? There are lots of tutorials for that out there, and it doesn't look too hard if you're OK with a soldering iron. --- End quote --- I believe tightwad is referring to the original XBOX 1 since it is able to run emulators for various consoles but don't recall it being able to do arcade roms. I never really played around too much with emulation when I had my original XBOX modded and now I just use it as a media center in my bedroom. I think PC would be the better option and padhacking is possible for any controller the only difference is some are easier to solder to then others. Again is all that work really worth it in the long run considering how limited the XBOX is compared to an actual PC that can run various front ends (such as Maximus Arcade, Hyperspin, Mala, etc) and various emulator platforms (such as MAME, Nestopia, ZSNES, MagicEngine, etc). I think tightwad should reconsider this since he already has the keyboard encoder as well. |
| bkenobi:
If you are looking at using an original Xbox, keep in mind that they only run a 733MHz cpu with 64Mb of memory. As a result, you won't be able to play some consoles very well and the MAME set is somewhat limited as well. I haven't run MAME on my modded Xbox, but I have run games on other emulators and they do work. I have seen that it's possible to upgrade most units to 128Mb of memory, but it's a huge PITA and only helps N64 emulation. Just throwing the info out there... |
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