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so what got you into owning your own arcade game?
deadkenndys1105:
Well it started with when someone showed me mame on this one emulation forum. Then I was looking into mame and found this. Then I build a mame cabinet. Now I own a millipede and am looking into buying a robotron and a defender.
Apollo:
I was reading a magazine (not gaming related) and there was an article about MAME and retro gaming. As an arcade addict from way back I did a little research, found this forum and well you know the rest.
Anubis_au:
I discovered MAME years ago, but didn't do anything with it. Then, in 2003, a mate of mine chanced upon an arcade cab (generic Aussie lowboy) at a garage sale, bought it, and converted it. I helped him do it, and promptly went and bought my own cab to convert. Sold it last year before travelling around the world.
Now that I am back home, I want to have a cab again. But this time, fully custom everything. And then I found BYOAC, and I was home :)
danny_galaga:
a friend showed me mame on his laptop. two years late it dawned on me how cool it was!
Malenko:
I wanted an arcade machine since the first time I ever played one. My dad made me an "arcade" stick out of my controller for commodore 64 and I played pacman endlessly (got up to the 5th key stage!)
Ive done 2 MAME cabs, one before I knew what I was doing. It was a ghastly job, a HUGE playstation 2 player arcade stick with 2 PSX2USB adapter and some tacky white marble shelf paper covering the whole thing, had a 25" TV a PC and a playstation (2?) in there. I still have a pic, just need to scan it, I warn you , its hideous and cheap looking. It worked, and I used it alot but it never felt like an arcade game and the thing kept breaking.
About 6 months after that I snagged a Track n Field style cab that had been mutilated into a marine game or something, it was awful. I really put some elbow grease into it, fixed the messed up wood and made a new control panel and converted it into Street Fighter II : Championship edition and gave it to my friend as a birthday gift.
Now that I actually have some skills, Im converting a Pengo Cabinet into my MAME cab, since both my X-arcade and hot rod are broke (X-arcade broke being shipped back from my old house in Texas, the hotrod was like 7 years old and the controller board died) I'll be using an Ipac2 and doing my own CPO. Once I get it all up and running I'll submit the project to Saint
I already have the coin mechs lit up, lol this is when the HotRod was the CPO, its still a work in progress
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