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darkSSide:
Authenticity? In my youth games weren't on free play neither. Are you actually putting in quarters in yours or your guests? Lets get real.
I have a pause and coin button thats it. For all other admin buttons I use combos but might add others once I finish my cab.

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yotsuya:
Enh, I can see where Michelevit is coming from. That's why I don't have admin buttons either. Each to his own.

EightBySix:
Although remember there is nothing stopping us playing mame games on a regular PC on the desk with keyboard and mice. Isn't part of our hobby trying to improve on that situation to make it feel more like the arcades we remember?

shponglefan:

--- Quote from: EightBySix on June 15, 2013, 05:11:15 am ---Although remember there is nothing stopping us playing mame games on a regular PC on the desk with keyboard and mice. Isn't part of our hobby trying to improve on that situation to make it feel more like the arcades we remember?

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While this is true, I think it's more the puzzling attitude that there is somehow some authenticity threshhold which exists for MAME cabinets.

To me, if a person is after true arcade authenticity, you only get that playing an original cabinet.  Or a replica which closely mimics an original as closely as possible.

But if you're talking about a generic homebuilt cab with a generic, multifunctional CP, running a modern PC with MAME, and using a wireless keyboard for admin functions... that's pretty far from being authentic.  That someone could honestly believe that it's the absense of a pause button that somehow makes their cabinet "authentic" at that point, is just laughable.  Once you go to a MAME-cab, you've basically accepted you're not after authenticity, but rather modern convenience.  There's nothing wrong with that; but people need to stop kidding themselves about it.

TheMadMechanic:
Wow been away for a little while and there's this raging debate about admin buttons....  ;D

Well I am still going to have one or two admin buttons tucked away where only I know where they are. I don't really like wireless I prefer wired controls. Well once I am done my CP and my cab I will post pictures. I have an Oct deadline before my cousin's wedding so my nieces can play some old fashion mame games on a rocking cool cab... now just to finish my cab...flying sub anyone...

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