wich mame for me?

[daywane]

I have a  system I just built
soyo mother board sy-7vem
128 meg memory
600 mghrtz celeron
on board vga and sound
a KDS xtreme flat 19" monitor
windows xp pro
pivot pro
usb to psx convetor

I want to build a vertical MS pac system
as few buttons as I can get away with. I need to stay usb support.
I am using playstation game pad hacks. Hay, $5.00 a game pad is cheep and EZ for cp swaps    I have a tron cp, I am still building , a 2 player 8 way with 4 buttons each and payer 1 & 2  and a orginal ms pac cp

I am playing with EZ Mame 32 ver .60 but the joy stick selecting games  option is not working for me, I am having problems trying to go with out a mouse, I have thought of putting in a track ball and store it behind the coin door, but then with xp I don't think I can use my spinner (ps/2 port) with the track ball (serial port) at the same time. Should I reformat and put in win 98se? also if a comand line mame is needed I have had no luck getting one to work. just have not figured it out yet. so I would need a EZ one to work out.
or a ez front end to help put everything in order.
I have thought of a board in behind the coin door with tab, pause, esc, and 2 coin buttons hidden out of site so not to clutter up my CPs

[Howard_Casto]

I would say get some more ram as it's realitively cheap and then run xp or 98se.  If you stick with only 128 mb then you might actulaly be better off in dos.  

[daywane]

I would say get some more ram as it's realitively cheap and then run xp or 98se.  If you stick with only 128 mb then you might actulaly be better off in dos.  

ok I have a 256 card I can toss in . I figured 128 would be plenty for vertical games.but you still left out wich mame to try.

[paigeoliver]

If you drop down to Windows 98, than that 128 MB of RAM is more than good enough. There are only a few games that will eat that much RAM, and none of them to my knowledge are vertical (just those super new monstrously huge Neo Geo games).

I used to have a 32Mb system that ran vertical Mame games just fine.

[rampy]

I'm pretty sure with that config you should use blue rasberry scented MAME, definitely....

What do you mean "wich mame"?

You should probably use windows commandline mame (which is regular old mame) and a front end geared towards being used in arcade cabinet (which means at the *least* that it's navigatable with joystick/sans mouse.

It's worth it to A. figure out command line mame  B. figure out a front end that works for you/your project

If you have specific questions regarding how to get mame working from the command line you can ask here, or on the mame.net forum (be sure to glance through the FAQ over there at least one), or via other MAME support sites out there.  

Are you doing swapable control panels? That sounds like a neat project you got going on.. any progress pics ?

*shrug*

rampy

[daywane]

I do have pics . My cabs are butt ugly right now. and I do not know how to show them off.
I am going with swapable CPs . I have steel laps from Toyota Motor Manufacturing CO.  all I have to do is cut the steel and the maintenance men at work will bend it for me.
I do have the equipment to drill and cut the panels , I am just not sure on the lay out yet. I hope to have them painted in a few months. thay will both be MS Pac blue.

The Ms pac will now have a 17" monitor instead of the 19"
my family is having a cow about this 19" going into a arcade instead of the families PC desk. I was going to go get another 19" monitor but I found a Gateway system with 17" monitor for $200.00 and that is what I spent on the 19" monitor.  (Wal Mart - XF-9B   KDS  Xtreme flat) I recomend this monitor, well worth the $199.75 it cost to walk out the door with it.