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MTPPC:
So a few months back I "finished" my MAME cabinet. It has  a 25" Hantarex Polo horizontal CGA monitor driven by Soft15Khz and 2 players with 8-way joysticks and 6 buttons each. It runs off or a core 2 duo PC via the fantastic J-PAC. Hyperspin seems to run reasonably. In the meantime, I've acquired an 800GB data collection containing the following emulators:

 <game name="MAME"/>
  <game name="Atomiswave"/>
  <game name="Mugen"/>
  <game name="Atari 2600"/>
  <game name="Atari 5200"/>
  <game name="Atari 7800"/>
  <game name="Atari Lynx"/>
  <game name="Atari Jaguar"/>
  <game name="Colecovision"/>
  <game name="Future Pinball"/>
  <game name="Intellivision"/>
  <game name="Nintendo Entertainment System"/>
  <game name="Super Nintendo Entertainment System"/>
  <game name="Nintendo 64"/>
  <game name="Gameboy"/>
  <game name="Gameboy Color"/>
  <game name="Gameboy Advance"/>
  <game name="Sega Master System"/>
  <game name="Sega Genesis"/>
  <game name="Sega CD"/>
  <game name="Sega 32X"/>
  <game name="Sega Dreamcast"/>
  <game name="Sega Game Gear"/>
  <game name="Sega Naomi"/>
  <game name="TurboGrafx 16"/>
  <game name="Neo Geo Pocket Color"/>
  <game name="Panasonic 3DO"/>
  <game name="Zinc"/>
  <game name="JukeBox"/>
  <game name="Daphne"/>

What I'm finding is that all of these emulators are need some configuration work. I'm slowly but surely getting the keymapping worked out for my cabinet. My J-pac is set up with pretty much the default MAME keycodes, but every emulator seems to need to be configured.

At this point, I have the following emulators working:
MAME
Sega32x
SegaCD (crappy games)
Sega Genesis
Atomiswave (works with occasional crashes)
Daphne (Seems to require key configs for each game)
Turbografx 16
Super Nintendo (Had to manually create keymaps in zinput.cfg and pick a 640x480 video mode in zsnesw.cfg)

Next up I'm going after the Ataris and then the neo geo pocket. I'm leaving the NAOMI for last as it seems to not even want to run. Obviously NAOMI should be the best for newer games if I can get it to run well.

Now for my questions. Is anyone out there running any of these emulators on a cabinet? If so, what do you find you spend the most time on? Is it still MAME? I'm really looking for folks to trade config files with to reduce the work in making the machine as good as it can be. My mame.xml for hyperspin is terribly bloated and chasing down these random config issues is killing me. I don't mind doing it, but if someone has already done some of this work, maybe we can trade some files.

kahlid74:
My experience has been that every time I build a new cabinet I have to tweak config files anyways.  The next machine I'm building is finally for me, so I'll be aiming for all of the emulators you've listed below, but I'm not there yet.

mytymaus007:
its pretty hard thing to do my friend. i have 30/50 configured so far in my set up with a 4TB Hard drive i5 2500k set up runs everything great no hiccups. BUT...even if i gave yo my entire hard drive you will still need to remap everything also install certain files in your system that some emulators need. Im sure if was easy there would be alot of people selling their HDs left and right Good Luck in your adventures! OH yeh im not sure with the Jpac but with ipac as long as you have 1st play stick and player buttons wired to the correct inputs also the coin Daphne should work fine with no configurations

BadMouth:
I have all those except for a couple (never did get Jaguar working, but it sucks anyway).
The only must-have that you're missing is Sega Model 2.  :P
I started with Uncle T's guide that's stickied in the MALA forum and kept adding from there.

I'm sure I have over 100 hours in setting everything up.
I haven't played 90% of the console emulators beyond setting them up and making sure they work.
There are a couple sega genesis and atari 2600 games that I had as a kid and will play for 5 minutes or so before the nostalgia wears off.
The novelty of playing a gameboy game on a big screen wears off in about 20 seconds.

I'm not bothering with anything but arcade games on my next cab.




EvilGreenDevil:
why the need to swap files?  The Hyperspin boards and community are very helpful and can get you in the right track to fixing any issues you have. Hyperspin is intuitive enough that you can pick up on the configuration after a few systems.

But if you're the type to go out and get an 800G drive already preloaded, going the extra step probably isn't on the list of things to do.

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