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shponglefan:

--- Quote from: Slugworth on August 27, 2014, 10:31:10 pm ---Just wanted to give y'all a quick update.  I found someone locally who was selling a neo geo cabinet he had made into his MAME cabinet, so I picked it up this evening.  He's moving from a house to an apartment and wouldn't have room for it, so he unloaded it for $40 for the cabinet and coin door... doesn't include the control panel.

It's in great condition, so I'll start with this and move on to the computer and control panel.  If I get sucked in to the hobby I can start building a cab sometime next year, but certainly no rush at this point. 

I've looked around on the site and am having a hard time figuring out what I need as far as computing power goes.  I see all of these processors being mentioned, but I've been out of the computer scene for so long that they all sound the same to me at this point.  I want to have all the MAME games, and probably everything up through N64 emulators and a nice fronted (based on the poll in the software forum, I'll probably go with either Hyperspin or Mala -- still need to do my research).

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General rule of thumb: get as fast a processor as you can.  It doesn't necessarily matter whether it's the latest technology, since I've found a lot of emulators are primarily CPU speed dependent more than anything else (especially MAME).

That said, most emulators can be run even on older (5+ year) machines.   It can also depend on which version of emulators you run.

Slugworth:

--- Quote from: shponglefan on August 27, 2014, 11:08:54 pm ---
--- Quote from: Slugworth on August 27, 2014, 10:59:19 pm ---One more quick question on the Control Panel.  Looking through most of the examples on the site, it seems the 4 player panels are generally pretty large, but it looks like the old Kanami 4 player games (TMNT, Simpsons, etc) were only about 37 inches.
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Those older 4 player panels like Konami arcades were designed so that player 3 and 4 stood off to the side.  So more space was gained at the expense of viewing angle.  I remember playing on those arcades and being on the outside wasn't particularly ideal.

And just IMHO, but a lot of older arcade panels were on the narrow side.  Personally, I don't like to go below 30 inches even for just a two player panel.  It's one thing when you played them as a skinny kid/teenager.  But when you have multiple full-grown adults at an arcade, a little more room is nice to have.

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Yeah, that's a good point.  I need to find an old school arcade around here so I can play around with the different interfaces.  I went a few months ago to one in Houston, but I didn't have any reason to think much about the positioning at the time.  Hopefully I can get back there at some point.

Yenome:
From one mame noob to another. I agree with everyone who said build a small one play cab first. this way you get to cut wood and get used to the tools and wood working in general. On this form if you really want simple wood working it a project called vigolix

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,119533.msg1267233.html#msg1267233

Made by the one and only vigo. It is a simple vewlix clone cab that is made from some 2x4 strips and one sheet of plywood. Since i live in an apartment i was gonna build me one slightly larger till i have room for a full blown arcade. Like you the Spouse supports me in my endevors IMO for 4 players nothing beats a showcase cab. you have probably seen them. they have the huge control panel and at least a 33in monitor that sits back 3 feet from the panel.  This is my ultimate goal and reason for Have monsterous 32" Crt Tvs. Now you can go LCD but if you do i suggest at least a 42" just google "showcase Arcade Cabinet" there will be plenty of images. think one was even a D&D cab. here is one made by a forum member for Gaunlet.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=91760.0

yotsuya:

--- Quote from: shponglefan on August 27, 2014, 11:08:54 pm ---And just IMHO, but a lot of older arcade panels were on the narrow side.  Personally, I don't like to go below 30 inches even for just a two player panel.  It's one thing when you played them as a skinny kid/teenager.  But when you have multiple full-grown adults at an arcade, a little more room is nice to have.

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Not that I don't disagree with your thought process, but 24 inches is perfectly fine for a 2 player panel. It's not like these were designed with kids in mind in the 80s to begin with. My best friend and I can play NBA Jam or a fighting game on my MAME cab, and it's not even quite 24 inches. Just food for thought.  :cheers:

yotsuya:
So ol' Slugworth deleted his account, huh?

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