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Mame cabinet or leave it as is
WhereEaglesDare:
After seeing it I may retract my previous statement... you could convert it to play vert games only, like 1942 or DK... Either way it need some body work
mikev43:
Do you guys think an older but very nice 19" crt would suffice? It's a really nice flat face monitor. I also have an AMD 2600+ (barton core) and mobo I could use.. would this be enough juice for the majority of mame and maybe a few other emulators? Is 512meg of memory with windows xp enough to run all of this? It's been a while and I'm not too concerned with emulating the really high end stuff.. I think I'm ready to pull the trigger.. should I get the j-pac then? What controllers do you all recommend?
Turnarcades:
Your spec is plenty; I've hit up this subject many times in the past. Forget the majority of 3D/polygonal and most of the crappy .chd MAME games and most other stuff is sweet at that spec, so long as you set up your software properly (low res desktop, minimal use of graphics effects and original aspect ratios for all games). For joysticks and the like, anything these days is a good bt so it just depends what 'feel' you want (eg. soft like Sanwas or a bit more rugged like Suzos or Mag-sticks).
mikev43:
does the j-pac only allow for 1 joystick and 4 buttons total? can a trackball be added? damn this is more confusing that it looks... :-[
Turnarcades:
All existing connections from the controls should already be wired into the JAMMA harness (2 joysticks with 3 buttons each plus 2 start buttons and a credit input), which then gets routed through the j-pac via the JAMMA edge connector the j-pac is plugged into. You then wire any extra buttons (up to 10 extra) to the spare terminals on the j-pac board. So in theory, you could have 2 players with 6 buttons each, 2 start buttons, credit switch from a button or coin door, and 4 admin buttons with the standard j-pac.
Both joysticks, start buttons, buttons 1-3 for each player and the coin signal would all remain wired into the JAMMA loom, whilst buttons 4-6 for each player and your admin buttons would be wired straight into the j-pac. When plugged into your PC by USB, the software will then interpret all of these attached inputs as key presses in the MAME default mapping, or you can program your own using the Winipac utility.
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