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Another question about building a mame computer
shateredsoul1979:
--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on July 18, 2011, 07:11:29 pm ---What display are you planning on using?
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My display is 1920 X1200 (or was it 1900 x 1200), well it's somewhere up there.
Hmmm sounds like maybe I should stick to the high-end graphics card,I guess the first suggestions wasn't overdoing it.
Donkbaca:
Also you will want bigger storage, at least a TB I would say to house all that stuff.
Basically, if you want to do straight mame/zinc/M2, plus any emulator up through dreamcast a beater p4 and 300 gigs of hard drive space, 1 gig of ram and last generation 256 mb graphics card will suit you just fine. You will be able to run 90 - 95% (including chds) and it will run you anywhere from $0 - 150 bucks depending on what you can get for free.
If you want to run SFIV, the newer emulators and a lot of those newer arcade games (most of which are imperfect) You will need a whole new PC, I would say at least 3-400 bucks.
If I were you I would just get a $99 xbox 360 from gamestop and integrate into your cab if you wanted to play that stuff.
WindDrake:
The Taito TypeX games that've been modified to run on Windows machines run nicely. My Cab is running a 3.2ghz AMD Tricore (Rana), Radeon 4870 1GB, and 4GB of ram on Win7 x64. I've been playing the hell out of KOF XIII with no issues. You just need to make sure you've got a "Scratch" drive for the game to use (D: Logical Drive, be it a disk or partition).
shateredsoul1979:
--- Quote from: WindDrake on July 19, 2011, 12:01:32 pm ---The Taito TypeX games that've been modified to run on Windows machines run nicely. My Cab is running a 3.2ghz AMD Tricore (Rana), Radeon 4870 1GB, and 4GB of ram on Win7 x64. I've been playing the hell out of KOF XIII with no issues. You just need to make sure you've got a "Scratch" drive for the game to use (D: Logical Drive, be it a disk or partition).
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For the taito type x stuff, I actually have .exes by djvj, he hacked them so that they save to the game folder instead of the scratch drive. I still at least need one scratch drive, I thin I'll a usb drive. I'll rename it to the drive letter I need.
I like the xbox 360 idea, and I do have an extra jtagged xbox 360, but then I'd have to rewire my whole panel!!! I'm also worried about overheating issues the Xenon jtag may have in a cab. That sounds like a whole project on it's own. It would be pretty great to have all that in the same arcade, decasing it would reduce the heating issues. I'd rather sell it to help fund the new pc though, but I can't seem to sell that sucker. The truth is that Jtagged Xenon's all have a chance of red ringing.. and I feel I have to tell people that so they don't feel cheated if it red rings 6 months later.
Donkbaca:
WTF? you have an EXTRA Jtag? I looked for one for a while before just getting a regular old refurbed for 99 bucks.
I don't know much about the Taito stuff, I just assumed it was all kind of preliminary based on some of the posts I have seen with the difficulty in getting SSFIV working. In any case it seems like you would need a beefy system to run them, or at least beefy video cards.
The 360 idea isn't too hard - KVM switch and use hacked pads instead of an encoder. Let me know if you decide to go this route and I can share some info with you.
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