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TurboC--:
Shipping a cab is probably pretty expensive just cause of the dimensions alone.  An empty cab doesn't weigh a ton, but still...

The place is Knoch D Amusements, (724) 352-2601.  I called every single amusement vendor in Pittsburgh, and this guy is by far the coolest.  Some places won't give you the time of day.  He knew I wanted a cab so he made a list of his entire inventory in 1 day for me.  I felt bad I didn't want any of his cabs (all but 1 were working ones) but the Punch Out was his non-working cab.  I just had no use for it.  Well, good luck.

Wade:
I'm a big fan of Mame and all, but it would be easiest and cheapest to just get the real deal and swap the boards.

Mame isn't any more future-proof than real video games.  Eventually, Mame might not be developed any more, and the way PCs are changing nowadays, you might have the same difficulty finding a MAME-compatible PC as you would finding the original boards.  At least, original boards are usually repairable.

I suppose, there will probably be SOMEONE around to port MAME to newer hardware.  But who knows.

Wade

Silverwind:

--- Quote from: Wade on August 19, 2005, 02:54:29 pm ---I'm a big fan of Mame and all, but it would be easiest and cheapest to just get the real deal and swap the boards.

Mame isn't any more future-proof than real video games.
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MaximRecoil:

--- Quote ---I'm a big fan of Mame and all, but it would be easiest and cheapest to just get the real deal and swap the boards.
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I disagree. If what I want to do can be easily done with a pair of PC monitors and a typical dual VGA video card, then there must be a way to do the same thing with arcade monitors. If one of those newer dual VGA cards could output 256x224 (maybe with the help of Powerstrip?) then I would be almost there. Set that to a vertical span of 256x448 and that would be perfect...the only thing left would be getting it to do 15 kHz for 2 standard resolution arcade monitors.

--- Quote ---Mame isn't any more future-proof than real video games.  Eventually, Mame might not be developed any more, and the way PCs are changing nowadays, you might have the same difficulty finding a MAME-compatible PC as you would finding the original boards.  At least, original boards are usually repairable.
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X86 isn't going anywhere any time soon. It is far more future-proof than any arcade board. There are millions upon millions of PC's out there right now that can run MAME, with no end in site in the near future. Compare that to the production runs of the specific Nintendo boards being discussed here. Emulation isn't going to die; if not MAME then something else will take its place. I don't see Nintendo or anyone else taking up production of their old arcade boards any time soon though.

Yeah, I'd like to have the real arcade boards and I try to keep an eye out for them, but I want a working emulation setup as well, for reasons I have mentioned above.

MinerAl:
I'm not sure but doesn't MAME put both of the monitor signals stacked on one monitor for those games?  What i mean is, I don't think MAME will output the top screen to one monitor and the bottom to another, I think it wants to put them both on one.

That's how it was a while ago when I quit paying attention to new increasingly slower less useful versions of MAME anyway.

If that has changed, well, cool!

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