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Title: WTHB: Portable MAME System - I have NO wood skills
Post by: Games001 on January 14, 2009, 07:26:53 pm
Wondering if someone with some reasonable wood skills would help me by building a Portable MAME CP that we would design as needed.  I am thinking TV output and have a PC and programming all set for this purpose... the actual CP, that's where someone else comes in.  :dunno

Please feel free to post here or PM me with questions, ideas, costs, etc.  Maybe we can inspire others to do the same.

My thanks, Games001
Title: Re: WTHB: Portable MAME System - I have NO wood skills
Post by: Hoagie_one on January 14, 2009, 07:35:26 pm
I had a 2 player control panel box mounted to fold up legs.  Technically, It worked great except during frenzied action, it got very unstable.

Someone had a 2 player pedestal Mame at one time. Dunno how well it worked out. I imagine if you can add a step to the bottom, you could use players weight as a stabilizer.

Title: Re: WTHB: Portable MAME System - I have NO wood skills
Post by: Games001 on January 15, 2009, 02:07:02 am
The bottom panel edge for stepping onto was one idea I was throwing around.  Seems one of the few ways to stablize the unit in heavy action times.
Title: Re: WTHB: Portable MAME System - I have NO wood skills
Post by: ToplessZ on January 18, 2009, 08:52:56 pm
I built something like your after:  Here are some pics..   It can be plugged into any TV(with S-video or component).  I also added external USB(x2) so that I can plug two usb console style controllers into it and play NES , SNES, and U64 games. 

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