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jedimason:
1.  I'm making my mame cocktail control panels out of wood to save money.  What is the cheapest and most effective thing for the control panel.  Laminate, Lexan, Plexiglass, Paint, Formica.  Obviously some type of paint would be pretty easy to apply several times, but what kind is the best.  I have read several different sites on what they used, but in my situation of being a college student with no money what would you use.

2.  Right now I'm messing around with mamewah.  What other emulators do you guys use for say nintendo, snes, and nintendo 64.

3.  Right now I only have a 17 inch. monitor.  I have the oppurtunity to purchase a 1997 tv for 25 bucks, but it only has rca inputs.  If I buy the $5 adapter for the s-video/rca, will I be happy with the picture quality.

Thanks for all your help,

Jonny

CM:
1)  No perfect answer.  To each their own.  I would use something more protective than just paint IMHO though.

2)  (MAMEWAH is not an emulator, it is a frontend.)  Go here for a good list of console emulators: http://www.zophar.net/index.phtml

3) Depends on what "happy" is.  RCA inputs do not enjoy the full S-video crispness, but then again the monitor beats the TV in that area anyways.  Most people go with TV for size vs cost over monitors.   For the $30 you might be able to find an old S-video tv on ebay or garage sale though...

Good luck!

Pete Harcoff:
To answer #2:

I use UltraFCE for NES emulation and Snes9x for SNES emulation.  I've tried N64 emulation, but had too many problems with it.

Sephroth57:
well its not like the picture quality is going to be less then normal RCA with a Svid converter. its just not going to be "true" s video quality. although a computer monitor beats both, so its up to you and how much $ u have to spend

eightbit:
In a tv vs monitor debate tv's are often argued to have a more arcade authentic picture than a monitor. It mostly depends on the quality of the tv but also depends on how good your tv out on your video card is.

How big is this tv and will it even fit into your cocktail cab?

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