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Whats better??Mame machine or an original??
rollerball:
Hey thats an idea...lol...I could sell the kids as well...lol....the other thing I was thinking...What about those AGP cards you can get so you can plug a pc into an old machine with an arcade moitor???Maybe it would be poss to hook up a small pc inside my original cab and run mame on that into my arcade monitor..do those cards cost much do you know???and would that idea work??Its only a vertical monitor though
97thruhiker:
I have an original Donkey Kong that I restored and a Mame machine that I built from scratch (which I have broken down and plan on rebuilding based on several years of knowledge now, more disposable income now). Out of the two I play the mame more because of the variety. If you can only keep one I would keep the mame machine for reasons stated above. Don't know your situation but I would try to hold on to both if you can. Gyruss is a fun game.
thennomeking:
As much as I love mame, been following it since .3 or .4, nothing will replicate the originals enough for me. Sadly I also do not have the room, others decided to fill my gameroom area with their "storage." But I am coping by building control panels as stand alone devices. So when we want to play a capcom fighter, we just hookup the capcom fighter control panel to my shuttle pc and plug it into the 36 inch tv. It is a FAR strech from a real cab, arcade monitors are simply amazing, but its soul burns on and saves on storage. It also allows me to build custom controls for specific games I want to play, ie Perfect Cherry Blossom or Virtual-On. Eventually I will take pictures of these things.
I vote keep the Gyruss, especially if you enjoy the game alot, sell the mame, build a shuttle pc and some control panels. Or simply an encoder and an arcade vga and temp convert the Gyruss to a vertical mame cab.
rollerball:
Im now thinking about doing both....taking the pc out of my mame machine and using an arcade vga and a j-pac to run mame on the gyruss machine...anyone know if horizontal games will run on a vertical monitor...even if they come out looking smaller??
rollerball:
Oh and Ive got a Matrox G100 4MB AGP card....Ive seen that it can do 15hz....so maybe I should use that card and just get a j-pac....would that work??any ideas??
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