Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum

Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Edgedamage on April 22, 2004, 10:31:06 am

Title: Original machine with mame inside
Post by: Edgedamage on April 22, 2004, 10:31:06 am

If someone was to take a original cabinet and replace the dead original boards and replace them with a comp. But still keep the outside of the cab original. How does that sound?

Title: Re:Original machine with mame inside
Post by: seibu on April 22, 2004, 11:38:48 am

Well, if the boards are definitely dead, and the outside of the cab / the monitoir / the controls etc. remain totally untouched, then it's really a kind of restoration job - with the added advantage that you can play other games on the cab too (within the limitations of the original control panel, of course)

Title: Re:Original machine with mame inside
Post by: menace on April 22, 2004, 12:30:37 pm

I was thinking of doing this for my next project--on the outside it looks like an original but with swappable panels for mame useage--I just have to find a suitable original cab now for a good price.  I wish I could have talked demon-seed into a trade--ah well.

Title: Re:Original machine with mame inside
Post by: SirPeale on April 22, 2004, 12:41:56 pm

Sure, it's what I'm doing with my Galaxian.  

Title: Re:Original machine with mame inside
Post by: paigeoliver on April 22, 2004, 02:16:13 pm

I have seen that done quite a bit.

Good candidates include
all vectors
70s black and white titles (many are really rare, and boardsets are largely unavailable for these games).
Anything with a $200+ boardset.
Games like Berzerk with battery acid issues.

I personally own a Defender that this has been done to. I will be going that route with my Amazing Maze now that it has been "de-mamed".

I also own several other possible candidates for this (Sprint 2, Stargate, Atari Basketball, Battlezone, etc).

Title: Re:Original machine with mame inside
Post by: SirPoonga on April 22, 2004, 03:23:13 pm

It's pretty easy to do.  If oyu have a jamma cab (if not wire it as jamma) get a computer and put in an arcadevga and jpac.  Pretty much plug and play then.

Title: Re:Original machine with mame inside
Post by: Karman on April 22, 2004, 04:58:58 pm

It would almost be necessary if you wanted a working Pole Position!

Title: Re:Original machine with mame inside
Post by: JustMichael on April 22, 2004, 07:26:44 pm

That is what I did with an old Xevious cabinet.  Now it plays Xevious just fine (and 4000+ others too).

Title: Re:Original machine with mame inside
Post by: dabone on April 22, 2004, 08:42:05 pm

I did my Dragon Spirit a couple of days ago.
Setup arcadeos and advancemame, plugged in the jpac and
emulation goodness. Dragon Spirit has 2 buttons on each side (2 of each button) So it plays every thing pretty well.
To go back to dragon spirit all I have to do is open the front door and unplug the jpac and plug the board back in.

Sweetness.

The other good thing is I put it in the kitichen where I work.
(The boss likes the toys I drag in.)


Later,
dabone