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First Mame cabinet, how is this deal?
paigeoliver:
Bad choice, Blitz cabinets are full of weird stuff, it probably has a medium resolution monitor and 49-way joysticks, plus $600 is a hell of a lot to spend on a cabinet to convert.
--- Quote from: Bunghoolio on January 15, 2013, 10:11:16 pm ---I found this cabinet (Jamma?) on Craigs locally, I think they come with a 25" Crt (not quite as desirable as a 27" I assume). What's your opinion on something like to convert to Mame? The control section certainly has enough real estate to setup to my liking.
http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ank/vgm/3545930026.html
I'm kinda giving up on getting a cabinet shipped across country, the one in the first post would require my friend to take apart, package and help load onto a shipper's truck I am not familiar - a lot of hassle for both of us.
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paigeoliver:
Either one of these ads would be better, that My Hero looks like it is in a Cliffhanger cabinet, which is a nice bonus.
http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ank/vgm/3548273003.html
http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ank/vgm/3499461295.html
I wouldn't get too worried about trying to find something with a 27" monitor or a 4 player machine. 25" monitors are way more common. There weren't a lot of arcade games being made other than Golden Tee and driving games by the time 27" monitors replaced 25" ones as the standard, so you really don't see them in a lot of machines. Out of the 230 machines and 30 loose monitors I have owned only 4 have been 27" and that consisted of 2 Candy cabinets that originally came from Japan, a 27" purchased new just for mame and a nonworking parts monitor of the same model as the new one purchased for mame.
Bunghoolio:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on January 15, 2013, 10:40:11 pm ---Bad choice, Blitz cabinets are full of weird stuff, it probably has a medium resolution monitor and 49-way joysticks, plus $600 is a hell of a lot to spend on a cabinet to convert.
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That's sounds like some good advice, and I really appreciate your taking the time to scan the local Craigs ads for me. $50 for that My Hero sounds like a good way to get started. Curious if you get a lot of crap from Mame developers on your advice to use earlier versions of Mame? Seems to make sense for those that want a particular cabinet to emphasize the old classic game experience.
rCadeGaming:
The oldest games don't necessarily run better in the older versions, it's usually the other way around. The updates are intended to improve emulation accuracy, but this tends to require more processing power as well.
I think he recommends older MAME versions because they can run the games he's concerned with more easily on old computers. For me, the biggest thing about new versions is the new games added. There have been a ton I wouldn't want to miss since those old versions.
paigeoliver:
Yeah, I have gotten some crap from some of the developers before about that advice. The newest versions may be more "accurate", but they have brought with them input lag (no one ever used to mention input lag and now they talk about it all the time), much higher hardware requirements and the fact that there always seems to be some important game or another broken in every version.
And indeed, I am not very concerned with most of the titles added in more modern mame versions. Even once you clear out the absolute garbage you are still left with a collection of games that largely require specialty analog controls for the proper experience and quite a few of those still have visible emulation issues or require non-existent hardware to run full speed.
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--- Quote from: paigeoliver on January 15, 2013, 10:40:11 pm ---Bad choice, Blitz cabinets are full of weird stuff, it probably has a medium resolution monitor and 49-way joysticks, plus $600 is a hell of a lot to spend on a cabinet to convert.
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That's sounds like some good advice, and I really appreciate your taking the time to scan the local Craigs ads for me. $50 for that My Hero sounds like a good way to get started. Curious if you get a lot of crap from Mame developers on your advice to use earlier versions of Mame? Seems to make sense for those that want a particular cabinet to emphasize the old classic game experience.
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