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Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
oldsage:
--- Quote from: Sephroth57 on January 17, 2005, 11:53:05 am ---hey nice cab, my first cab was a gauntlet dark legacy. mine was a conversion though and used a big 4 player Xmen cab running a standard monitor, which is fine for MAMEing. but yours is dedicated which would make me think that monitor is medium res and youre not going to be able to arcadeVGA that. also look at the bottom of your joysticks, do they hit little microswitches or are they 49 ways? if theyre 49 ways another bad thing for MAMEing.
basicly, that cab is not suited for MAME at all and youre better off buying an empty cabinet for 50$ and making that MAME then converting that nice machine you have. Thats what i ended up doing
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If it isn't a conversion, the screen is med res. The joystick should be optical... There is this other guy that converted this to a mame cab, and darkmavis linked to him...
There is an adapter made by happ that allows you to connect a med res (or low res) monitor to your PC...
You should really read the posts above you before posting... It helps sometimes...
Sephroth57:
I did read the whole thread, I dont see what you dont like about my post?? I went through the same thing as this guy, at the time I assumed my monitor was medium res, so i was facing the same video problem also. All im saying is that this is the worst possible thing you can buy to MAME, 49ways + medium res, where if it was standard/8ways would be half the work.
oldsage:
--- Quote from: Sephroth57 on January 17, 2005, 01:11:35 pm ---I did read the whole thread, I dont see what you dont like about my post?? I went through the same thing as this guy, at the time I assumed my monitor was medium res, so i was facing the same video problem also. All im saying is that this is the worst possible thing you can buy to MAME, 49ways + medium res, where if it was standard/8ways would be half the work.
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But it wouldn't look as good! ;)
Lilwolf:
What I would say.
1) Dont do anything for 3 - 6 months. Since it wont' be a straight swap back and forth... Play a great game for a while...
2) Decide how much you like the game. It might be a good party favorite... You might want to rig it to swap back/forth.
3) Consider spending the $220 for the happs card. But make sure first (by getting the actual monitor part number inside) that it can't handle standard resolution. Many can... Easy enought thing to find out if you know exactly what it can handle if you know exactly what it is.... (but I don't think you will get any luck)...
But knowing this will change how easy it is to jump back to the original.
Next..
Do you want to keep the original joysticks? It will cost you a bit... 4 of Daves boards... Then each joystick will act as an alalog joystick. GREAT for some games. People give them good reviews for most 8way and 4way games... but I hear they suck for fighting games... I have Daves board but a sinister joystick with a spider... so its hard to compare them. btw... each board also handles 14 inputs. So you should have more then enought inputs for coins, starts, ect... And even adding a few replacement 8way joysticks in another control panel later.
If you DONT use them. Build yourself another control panel and just unplug that one and set it aside. So you can go back at any point. This can actually make things a little easier (no interfaces to mess with).
Your probably be about done at this point.
but what did I start off saying. Dont do anything for a month and play a great game...
Sephroth57:
yeah i ended up playing my machine for a good couple months before i actually went and got my 2nd cabinet. i didnt want to MAME it its too nice
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