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Cabinet Friendly Emulators
toasty:
Looking to get my cab loaded up with any emulators worth having on a cab. Here's what I'm trying to accomplish:
1. Launch everything through MameWah.
2. Use MAME standard controls, including exit on ESC.
3. Actually play most things cleanly in an arcade cabinet environment -- in other words, I don't want to pack my cab full of emulators that don't run a lot of games properly, have serious issues, or require me to grab a keyboard from time to time, just to say I've got them on there.
In other words, I want to be able to keep the experience as arcade pure as possible, even though there may be non-arcade games on there. I'd like for someone that doesn't know there's a computer behind it all to be able to look at a couple brief instructions on the bezel or the CP overlay and game away without me there, just using the CP controls.
Right now I've got:
MAME
Daphne
Fusion
What other emulators do a good enough job to warrant putting them in an arcade cab?
Thanks
Brad:
http://www.emuchrist.org/cpviewer/downloads.htm
Brad
toasty:
well, I've seen that, but it doesn't shed any light on which would actually work well in a cabinet environment. It includes info regarding consoles that are really just barely emulated, and others that really require a keyboard or which can't be configured to work in an intuitive way...
What systems, other than those I've mentioned, are people emulating on their cabs?
Brad:
Well the decent ones are all included. Also it's a matter of taste.
The systems I run regularly and well are the following:
Mame
Daphne
Atari2600
Atari5200
Atari7800
Atari Lynx
Atari Jaguar
SegaSMS
Sega Gamegear
Sega Genesis
Sega 32x
NES
SNES
N64
GB
GBC
GBA
ZX Spectrum
Emerson Arcadia
Colecovision
Intellivision
NeoGeo Pocket Mono
NeoGeo Pocket Colour
Wonderswan Mono
Wonderswan Colour
plus a number of others. Also consider that mileage will vary dependant on your PC specs and controllers.
Brad
jcrouse:
--- Quote from: toasty on March 02, 2006, 05:30:03 pm ---well, I've seen that, but it doesn't shed any light on which would actually work well in a cabinet environment. It includes info regarding consoles that are really just barely emulated, and others that really require a keyboard or which can't be configured to work in an intuitive way...
What systems, other than those I've mentioned, are people emulating on their cabs?
--- End quote ---
As for the CPViewer website, short of the computer systems, most of which require a keyboard (as you mentioned) and the couple of systems that aren't really emulated, Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Saturn, and maybe one or two others, all of the systems run well with just a CP and/or gamepad (usb).
In addition to Brad's list:
Sega CD
Playstation
TurboGrafx
TurboGrafx CD
and I'm sure a few more are well emulated. When you decide which systems you want to emulate be sure to check Brad's link, my site, for a hacked emulator. They will include a readme file that tells what has been added/changed/improved.
Enjoy,
John
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