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Crowquill:
Congrats on the new cabinet. MK2 cabinets are great for MAME if you ask me. Pics are always welcome.

You'll want to familiarize yourself with the electrical wiring in your cabinet first. This can be very dangerous and you don't want to just start clipping wires. Read through these:

Ultimarc's J-Pac instructions

Power Wiring from scratch

I'd say you're better to disconnect the 110V before it gets to the power supply. As mentioned, most power supplies have a safety shut-off if there's not a load on it, but why give it power if you're not using it anyway?


--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 14, 2008, 01:31:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: shardian on February 14, 2008, 01:23:19 pm ---Hell, if anything those 2 games gave arcades a temporary new lease on life in the 90's. The crash was in the mid-80's you know.

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Of the arcades I was able to go to in the early 90s, they were still mostly classics.  Once MK/SF came around the classics were gone overnight.  I imagine most of them met grisly deaths.  Can't say that wouldn't have happened anyway, of course, but MK/SF was the catalyst for when it happened.  Little in the arcade after this point, except mostly pinball, holds any interest to me.

--- End quote ---

While there were a few classics mixed in, the arcades I went to were filled with Double Dragon clones, platform games, racing games,and shooters. Until the fighting games hit you never saw a big crowd gathered around a machine. The fighting games really revitalized the arcades that I visited.

But fighting games didn't kill arcades, game consoles did. By the Playstation/Saturn era most arcade game ports on the home systems were identical to their arcade counterparts and many times added new features. The Dreamcast version of Soul Calibur blows away its arcade counterpart. It was at that point that arcade games shifted to having unusual controllers that couldn't be reproduced at home. The Wii has even taken some of that edge away now.

fjl:
I would say one of the main culprits for the death of the arcade would have to be rise of technology from consoles. The first arcade games weren't very high on graphics and technology. Those where perfect for the quick shoot em up games like Space Invaders. Once technology exploded like it did, game companies had the opportunity to create lenghty games like Zelda and Resident Evil. But those games require a lot of time to play. You can't put games like those at an arcade. Arcade games where mostly meant for quick play, thats where games like Donkey Kong, Dig-Dug, Pac-Man come in. Great games all easy to learn and play and their quick. No big budget production themes, no lenghty stories, no high learning curves to understand the game. Perfect for yesterdays arcade technology. But since people preffered the lenghty games of consoles more people stayed at home than visiting their local arcade. And thus crashed the arcade business.

That was one of the reasons I stopped going to arcades. Well that and because most of the newer games went up in price to 50 cents or a dollar. Screw that! I'll gladly stay in comfort of my own home and play my console games for free!

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on February 14, 2008, 09:27:40 pm ---That's weird. I started playing arcade games regularly in '84, and I only ever saw current games on location, even in the small places like laundromats or general stores. In '84 I knew of games like Missile Command, Asteroids, Defender, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, etc. because my older brother and his friends talked about them (plus I'd played the console ports), but I never saw any on location by '84. I was playing Karate Champ and Punch-Out!! mainly, which both came out in '84.

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You didn't live in backwoods Canada.  We got everything well behind release schedule.

pincky:

--- Quote from: Crowquill on February 18, 2008, 02:10:19 am ---Congrats on the new cabinet. MK2 cabinets are great for MAME if you ask me. Pics are always welcome.

You'll want to familiarize yourself with the electrical wiring in your cabinet first. This can be very dangerous and you don't want to just start clipping wires. Read through these:

Ultimarc's J-Pac instructions

Power Wiring from scratch

I'd say you're better to disconnect the 110V before it gets to the power supply. As mentioned, most power supplies have a safety shut-off if there's not a load on it, but why give it power if you're not using it anyway?


--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 14, 2008, 01:31:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: shardian on February 14, 2008, 01:23:19 pm ---Hell, if anything those 2 games gave arcades a temporary new lease on life in the 90's. The crash was in the mid-80's you know.

--- End quote ---

Of the arcades I was able to go to in the early 90s, they were still mostly classics.  Once MK/SF came around the classics were gone overnight.  I imagine most of them met grisly deaths.  Can't say that wouldn't have happened anyway, of course, but MK/SF was the catalyst for when it happened.  Little in the arcade after this point, except mostly pinball, holds any interest to me.

--- End quote ---

While there were a few classics mixed in, the arcades I went to were filled with Double Dragon clones, platform games, racing games,and shooters. Until the fighting games hit you never saw a big crowd gathered around a machine. The fighting games really revitalized the arcades that I visited.

But fighting games didn't kill arcades, game consoles did. By the Playstation/Saturn era most arcade game ports on the home systems were identical to their arcade counterparts and many times added new features. The Dreamcast version of Soul Calibur blows away its arcade counterpart. It was at that point that arcade games shifted to having unusual controllers that couldn't be reproduced at home. The Wii has even taken some of that edge away now.

--- End quote ---


I do i need the power supply for the monitor? or can i just hook it up to a power strip?

lcddream:

--- Quote from: Crowquill on February 18, 2008, 02:10:19 am ---But fighting games didn't kill arcades, game consoles did.
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Agreed.

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