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walterg74:
I don't really get people's obsession with playing SNES games (or any other console for that matter) on their cabinet...

The whole purpose of building a cabinet is to re-create the whole arcade experience and re living what it was like to play the games originally.  When were these games played on an ARCADE cabinet? (except at a cheap ass arcade place maybe).

SNES (and other console) games are meant to play in front of your tv with it's controller. Playing with an arcade cabinet is just lame...  :timebomb:
versapak:

--- Quote from: walterg74 on February 08, 2010, 12:54:29 am ---I don't really get people's obsession with playing SNES games (or any other console for that matter) on their cabinet...

The whole purpose of building a cabinet is to re-create the whole arcade experience and re living what it was like to play the games originally.  When were these games played on an ARCADE cabinet? (except at a cheap ass arcade place maybe).

SNES (and other console) games are meant to play in front of your tv with it's controller. Playing with an arcade cabinet is just lame...  :timebomb:

--- End quote ---

Yeah, they are designed for a console that is connected to your tv, but pretty much every major system made has also had arcade controls made for it, and a bunch of those classic games that were made for consoles still had a very arcade like gameplay, and fit a cab like a glove.

8 buttons is a lot, but then 7 buttons is very commonly used for an easy Neo-Geo and Street Fighter arrangement. That 8th button really doesn't clutter things up any more.


shateredsoul:
I'm using this layout for my arcade controls!
northerngames:

--- Quote from: versapak on February 08, 2010, 01:42:54 am ---
--- Quote from: walterg74 on February 08, 2010, 12:54:29 am ---I don't really get people's obsession with playing SNES games (or any other console for that matter) on their cabinet...

The whole purpose of building a cabinet is to re-create the whole arcade experience and re living what it was like to play the games originally.  When were these games played on an ARCADE cabinet? (except at a cheap ass arcade place maybe).

SNES (and other console) games are meant to play in front of your tv with it's controller. Playing with an arcade cabinet is just lame...  :timebomb:

--- End quote ---

Yeah, they are designed for a console that is connected to your tv, but pretty much every major system made has also had arcade controls made for it, and a bunch of those classic games that were made for consoles still had a very arcade like gameplay, and fit a cab like a glove.

8 buttons is a lot, but then 7 buttons is very commonly used for an easy Neo-Geo and Street Fighter arrangement. That 8th button really doesn't clutter things up any more.




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plus with newer tv's and lcd's that ol nes is not going to look as good as it does on a arcade crt as opposed to lcd there smashed stretched cubed etc.
justinjstark:
Not all of us are arcade geeks.  ;)  I don't much care about playing original games in their original forms.  I'm building an arcade machine because I think it will be fun to build and it will be great to play with my girlfriend or when friends come over.

SNES is my favorite system with the most quality games that can be emulated on my old computer.  Also, my gf wants the cab to be mario themed so it fits.

I also don't care so much about how it looks.  I try to keep things scaled properly even if that leaves black bars on the sides...it doesn't bother me much.  And the blockiness of snes emulators can be fixed by using filters such as super eagle or can be made to look more arcadish by adding scanlines.

I understand why many of you want to play games just as you remember them (and a lot of what I have said is probably blasphemy) but we are not all arcade junkies and we are not all building arcade machines for the same reason.

That being said, I'll start a thread and post some pictures when my SNES mario cab begins to be built.   :cheers:
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