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leapinlew:
--- Quote from: mytymaus007 on May 30, 2012, 09:26:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: Jack Burton on May 30, 2012, 09:18:27 pm ---I say forget hyperspin. Forget all the fancy front-ends and thousands of games. Forget the countless hours of configuring and tinkering.
Download a couple of roms at a time. PLAY THEM. For a week or more, no exceptions. No getting bored with it and downloading another. You will enjoy your cab much more.
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Thats what I did for a year or 2 then I needed more and more of my friends and family wanted to play. So in the end you will end up building a cab with the ultimate game collection even if you dont play it its nice to say i have that game when some out of the blue wants to play a game and you have it. My step son came home from school and said his history teacher showed them a game i guess dealing with history "kid icarus" on NES system. Low and behold i had it my collection and now its in my favorites. I love hyperspin and having the most games i can find :D
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Not me, I have a small list of popular games that I want to play from my youth. I went through a discovery phase of checking out new games, but now my cabs now play just a few game. I'm currently building a defender bartop that will only play defender.
Le Chuck:
I'm with lew, only on a much smaller scale, and not defender... yet.
PL1:
--- Quote from: Jack Burton on May 30, 2012, 09:18:27 pm ---I say forget hyperspin. Forget all the fancy front-ends and thousands of games. Forget the countless hours of configuring and tinkering.
Download a couple of roms at a time. PLAY THEM. For a week or more, no exceptions. No getting bored with it and downloading another. You will enjoy your cab much more.
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I agree--up to a point. Thousands of games is way too much for your regular play list, but when you read about some obscure title, its great to have it ready to go in less than a minute.
The way I do that is I made a subdirectory called archive in my ROMs directory. The directory contains all my ROMs. (BitTorrent is your friend.) I copy them up to the main directory as needed. If they suck, I delete the file from the main directory. Friend stops by later and begs to play that game, copy it up again and delete it when he leaves.
Best of both worlds: Maximum title availability -- minimal time wasted on configuration.
Scott
flashiv:
--- Quote from: PL1 on May 31, 2012, 07:20:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: Jack Burton on May 30, 2012, 09:18:27 pm ---I say forget hyperspin. Forget all the fancy front-ends and thousands of games. Forget the countless hours of configuring and tinkering.
Download a couple of roms at a time. PLAY THEM. For a week or more, no exceptions. No getting bored with it and downloading another. You will enjoy your cab much more.
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I agree--up to a point. Thousands of games is way too much for your regular play list, but when you read about some obscure title, its great to have it ready to go in less than a minute.
The way I do that is I made a subdirectory called archive in my ROMs directory. The directory contains all my ROMs. (BitTorrent is your friend.) I copy them up to the main directory as needed. If they suck, I delete the file from the main directory. Friend stops by later and begs to play that game, copy it up again and delete it when he leaves.
Best of both worlds: Maximum title availability -- minimal time wasted on configuration.
Scott
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My cab is setup like Scott's, although my list of keeper games keeps growing (200+). :laugh2:
molton:
Mameplus is a great frontend. You can use a program called glovepie to translate your arcade controls into the keyboard commands you want for the frontend, then when mame runs it disables glovepie leaving you with the arcade controls only (the versions of glovepie/mame I'm using anyway)
windows xp + glovepie + mameplus + windows startup folder in the start menu = arcade panel navigatable frontend with no keyboard required, although I do have a trackball I use as a mouse I need to use from time to time for various things, but for the most part you don't need anything else.
When glovepie is running it keeps windows from shutting down, so I made a shortcut to do the shutdown command (forget what it is exactly) with the -f switch to force shutdown and set the shortcut up as ctrl + alt + 1 which works out to be both player 1 and 2 buttons at the same time and a button on the side that has no other use
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