Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: GaryMcT on September 16, 2009, 11:25:32 pm
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Anyone know of one? Or any small system that has Mame ported to it, gets the resolution and refresh rates correct, etc?
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Uh, MAME? That's about all you've got to work with there.... I suppose you could pick up one of the 1xxx-in-1 boards, but it's just a PC with a JAMMA I/O board slapped on to it... plus it's underpowered and many times the components you get are used garbage.
Just get the smallest motherboard you can find and build a MAME PC with it.
To be clear though ... there is NO single board user programmable option out there other than the Arcadeshop board which has a limited number of game, an absurdly high price, and a guy running the show that doesn't seem to care about after the purchase customer support (no updates since JANUARY!).
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Well, that's a bummer. :(
I'm trying to short circuit using Windows due to difficulties with getting all refresh rates working for the games that I care about. I guess the next step is to finally get off my lazy butt and figure out how to get a Linux install that has svgalib or framebuffer drivers so that I can make newer Mame builds do the right thing with refresh rates.
I don't mind writing tons of code, but I hate screwing around with getting Linux installations to have the driver support that I need. Does that make me a bad person? :) I used to be a Linux nut back in college, and it is still as user-unfriendly as it was then, and I have far less patience for messing around with that sort of things these days.