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Getting started, first question
kahlid74:
--- Quote from: Le Chuck on March 29, 2012, 10:15:36 pm ---Cheese, never evaarr complain about a wife who wants to hold onto a cabinet... for whatever reason.
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This, seriously. I've got one cab right now and I'm in the process of starting to build a new one and the woman goes bonkers when I tell her this. "The whole basement is going to be filled with those things!" My response is usually "Not the whole basement, just part of it. . . "
Either way, the key about that cab is it's versatility in 1 player MAME builds. If you really want 2 player that cab may not be the best. Like everyone is saying, take the time to understand what you want, 2player or 4 player, and what controls and what style and then go about it. But do understand what you want may not be totally feasible in that cab.
Dawgz Rule:
Research is everything....the more you do the better off you will be. I will say that there is an immense amount of satisfaction in building a cabinet. With me, it was just as much fun building as playing (which worries my wife). The best part of the build is when somebody comes over and asks, "Where did you purchase that?". The next best part is when they say, "That is exactly how I remember it....." What a great hobby.
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on March 30, 2012, 04:27:59 am ---
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on March 29, 2012, 06:11:37 pm ---We can just accept that ark is a total idiot and move on from there. There is a reason that he doesn't post anything that has to do with arcade stuff -- it is because he doesn't actually know anything related to arcade stuff.
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I have had four cabinets since 2000. All of them were original, and were not Mamed. All of them I sold at a loss. Two of my own custom builds (submini) sold at a profit. Granted I might know little about electronics, but I do know that originality means squat to someone who just wants to play 60+ games. Sell the boards and art by all means and convert the cabinet to whatever you want it to be, and leave the purists to their loss making pursuits.
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So, your argument to my claim that you don't have a clue what you are doing is that you don't actually have a clue what you are doing?
The mere fact that you haven't been able to succeed without killing something doesn't mean that we should all become murderers.
You have no vision and no passion.
Be somewhere else.
GregD:
^ Wow....is there some history here or what? ^
Dawgz Rule:
--- Quote ---^ Wow....is there some history here or what? ^
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Ditto. Just what every new person wants to see. This type of stuff is what made me almost bail out on this forum shortly after building my first cabinet. Welcome aboard!!!
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