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Newbie Here. First M.A.M.E. arcade cabinet project.
Dawgz Rule:
craig, you can do much better for your money getting a pc at newegg. I would even go so far as saying you can build one for the same amount that you will pay for that Walmart purchase and it will run circles around it.
paigeoliver:
Gamecube and Nintendo 64 have analog controls and shoulder buttons and many of those titles do not translate well to arcade controls. Having never emulated gamecube I am not too up on PC specs needed to do so, but all the older consoles and 98ish percent of mame was running full speed on hardware that was modern 10 years ago. My main cabinet is a $2500 scratchbuilt job and it is running an 8 year old PC and I have never saw any reason to upgrade it.
Do you need the front Space Invaders Deluxe plexiglass for that cabinet? I have one available (I have sold 3 of those cabinets in the past few months and one guy didn't want the plexi).
Space Invaders Deluxe is a pretty small control panel. I'd suggest just doing the standard Streetfighter 2 control setup and not worrying about things like trackballs, spinners or 4-way joysticks. I (and likely several other people on here), can build you a premade panel to latch up exactly to your cabinet, with all the controls on it wired up and ready to plug in.
Buy your PC last, and if you have any kind of budget then the PC is exactly the place to cut money from the budget. The difference between A PC you pick out of the trash and a high end gaming computer are minimal when it comes to emulation.
Just did a quick search on Gamecube emulation, and it doesn't really seem to be that mature yet.
DGP:
Many GC games run just fine with Dolphin.
The 3.4 dual + Radeon 5750 combo I was using in my cab offered fully playable GC via Dolphin and the 2.8 dual I was running before that had a hiccup here and there.
My years of experience with Dolphin tells me that it does indeed use the gpu for best results and something that is 8-10 years old is simply not going to cut it.
Best of luck,
Jason
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