Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: mrclean on December 04, 2006, 08:57:54 pm
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Did gettin a Nintendo Wii, X-Box 360, Or PS3 slow down your MAME usage ? Just curious with these new systems if any ones cab's are collecting more dust than usual... Me personally I picked up a Nintendo Wii and its fun! I find my self playing a little less on my cab, although aaron and the rest of the mame dev's are about to get dragon's lair working on future releases.. it would bring me back in
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Mame has a specific usage for me, just like my NEOGEO 4 slot does, as my candy cab does, so does console gaming. My XBOX and PS2 are wired for the cab, and I spend more time of tekken 5, soul calibur 3, MK Armigedon, etc on the XBOX/PS2 on my cab than for King of the fighters, SF2, et al. It all depends on the mood I am in, and sometimes only a fix of super off road, cenetpede or pacman will do - and yes I have them for xbox also! ::)
I am more apt to play a game of metal slug 5 on the NEOGEO MVS than anything lately... so does that count?
Each console has its place.
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I got the firmware mod for the 360 and have been getting distracted trying to check out about 50 games, add that to my Guitar Hero habit and yes I sometimes have a console problem.
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What firmware mod? Anyway, I've been playing more console games lately because Zelda is all-consuming. I'm almost 20 hours in and I'm still only in the third dungeon.
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I've been taking more time "adjusting" my arcade cabinet than playing anything else. Call of Duty 2 was taking up my time lately, but I finished that game.. I still have to finish Oblivion and will have to buy Gears of War. Not much time for mame in my little spare time I do have. I mostly play mame when I have 5-10 minutes here and there.
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Building my arcade is keeping me from the consoles completely right now.
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I currently have a ton of Xbox 360 games that I need to finish. Having a wife and a 2.5 yr old is a full time job though, plus my other full time job. Gears of War, Call of Duty 3, Condemned, Oblivion just to name a few. I feel like I have to beat them and get the achievements.
However, my 360 has only been played when I know my friends are going to be on Xbox Live to play.
I have version .110 of Mame right now with about 400 roms. Right now I am going through them all in mamewah 1.62b12 seeing what works. Many of my roms were working for .106, and I am updating the ones that no longer work.
Another thing is finishing up odds and ends on my cabinet, and the biggest thing is I have not finished building my control panel. I am going to work on getting the control panel box bottom done tommorow. My original was when I was starting out, and I didn't even use a sawboard. Talk about a PoS and plus wood got warped in the heat. I do have a control panel top, but ghetto wood had voids in it. SO I am keeping it to put on a nice new piece of wood to do some flush trim routing.
I am having more fun though playing old arcade games than the Xbox 360 right now though.