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wild_eyed:
Hi All just read the "before you post here read this thread" thread so i think im cool to ask.

im planning on building a weecade cabinet for my nephews and nieces for christmas.

using a 17" or 19" 4:3 monitor

what should i run my mame from that is both relatively small and cheap.....

i was looking at the raspberry pi but dont see how they work with a vga monitor and i dont want to spend the 50 euros on a vga convertor.

is my only option to place an old pc in there?

i do have an old Acer Aspire One with broken screen, but works otherwise, it has a vga out and its nice and small but not sure how i would wire the on/off to an external switch.

any thoughts or suggestions?

many thanks




paigeoliver:
Any PC made since 1998 or so if powerful enough to run mame if you roll back the mame version far enough. Mame is indeed PC software so draw your own conclusions......  :afro:

JDFan:
The old laptop should be fine (it may not run the newest 3d games but should be fine for most of the older arcade games) -- for the power you can open the laptop case and splice into the wiring on the power switch and run them to an arcade button (or any momentary button) to mount on the bartop back. If you are not sure how well the laptop will play you could always run some play testing with the games you plan to include and see before starting the build. 

paigeoliver:
People say "older games" but what they really mean is "the 1 percent of games in mame that run on 3D hardware or have hard drives in them". Those type of games are a tiny minority and just about everything else will run full speed with a 90s era processor (and the majority of those one percent require specialty analog controls that you won't have anyway).

wild_eyed:
yeah cool, this is only for games that work on the hardware :) everything else will have to wait a few years. CPS2 and Neo Geo and older is fine. getting MDF today.

eek.

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