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Just curious - MAME vs. collecting - one or both?
FrizzleFried:
--- Quote from: gatordad on August 13, 2009, 07:50:12 pm ---Mame is called a gateway drug
Next thing you know, it's a few of your favorite classic's and a garage full of projects
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Tell me about it...
Feburary 25, 2007
A couple weeks ago...
garnerb350:
--- Quote from: TheShanMan on August 13, 2009, 07:28:12 pm ---Mame is called a gateway drug
Next thing you know, it's a few of your favorite classic's and a garage full of projects
--- End quote ---
100 % right on that one...When i first heard of MAME, i was excited and i built my cab...Now all I do is try to find ways to tweak it for better uses...My original goal was to have a MAME cab and eventually a pinball machine...Now I am trying to find myself a DK cab and restoring it to add to the goal...(There is just something about that damn gorilla!)
Money is tight around my house and space is hard also... Its really nice to know that there are people here who also has the same similarities as i do when being involved with this hobby/addiction.
In the end I think that because of MAME, it has made me into someone who wants to collect the originals....Because of MAME & BYOAC, I am learning things everyday about cabs that i never paid attention to when i used to work & play at arcades...
Now a days I freak my wife or friends out when we go out....If we go into a restaurant...and i see arcade cabs....I don't run to pop in quarters to play...I run to see what type of wood, t-molding, the finish, locations of speakers...what i would do if i had it...etc...Yeap I am addicted! :o
Dr Zero:
Found mame at a computer show there was a lady giving out cd's with mame every other console out there. Become addicted and play for hours :lol
2009 little one starts showing interest in games and loves mame (its in the genes LOL)
decide to build a mame cabinet go get 2 cabs and then find here looking for controller info.
BYOAC renews the interest in a original game and on a fluke stumble into a whole pile of machines and 2 followed me home :laugh2:
Mame was the fix that kept the memories alive since there was no more arcade around also it is a awesome way to share the history of the games.
MaximRecoil:
I've always wanted to own the actual arcade machines. As a kid growing up in the '80s I wanted three things more than anything else in the world (well, aside from Erika):
1. 1969 Dodge Charger (Dukes of Hazzard)
2. Colt Government Model .45 ACP (Magnum P.I.)
3. Nintendo Super Punch-Out!! machine
Even though I wanted a Super-Punch-Out (or even a Punch-Out) machine, it obviously wasn't really an option when I was 12 or 13 years old. Several years later when I was in my late teens with my license, a car, and a part time job, I saw some dime-a-dozen game in a generic cabinet in an arcade with a sign on it saying you could buy it for like $250, with a number to call. I called the number to ask if they had a Super Punch-Out or Punch-Out machine, but they didn't.
Several years after that (would be the late '90s by now) I was in a Border's book store and started browsing through a book on video games, and that is where I first read about emulation. I was amazed. Of course I wanted a real machine (though I had no idea where to find the ones I wanted), but this emulation thing sounded awesome too. The problem is, I didn't have a PC yet at the time.
Some time after that I got a PlayStation, and I was in Toys R Us browsing through the selection of PlayStation games, and I saw a game called "Namco Museum". I looked at the back and it said the games were the original code that worked via emulation (a term which I remembered from the book at Borders). I spent the next half hour or so digging through the rest of the games looking for others like it. I found another volume of the Namco Museum, a modern version of Space Invaders with the original arcade version being an unlockable bonus, and an Atari arcade collection. I bought them all without hesitation. I was hoping to find a Nintendo arcade collection, but no such luck.
When I got home and started playing them I thought it was the greatest thing in the world to be playing these games; not ports, but the real code, at home. I was especially intrigued with the vertical monitor games like Pac-Man which had the option to rotate the game 90 degrees for use with a vertical monitor. I promptly turned my 19" TV on its side and played those games "correctly". My old 19" TV only had an RF input though which left a lot to be desired, and I started wondering if it was possible to hook a PlayStation to a real arcade monitor; and where would I get a real arcade monitor anyway?
I still wanted to play Super Punch-Out or Punch-Out. I decided to call Nintendo and ask if they had anything like "Namco Museum" for their own classic arcade games. Unfortunately they didn't.
About a year later I got my first PC and internet access. I was discussing old arcade games with someone in a chat room and I mentioned how I wished [Super] Punch-Out was emulated so I could play it on my PC. A few minutes later he posted a link to two MAME ROMs, Super Punch-Out and Punch-Out. This was very exciting, but after downloading the ROMs, I had no idea what to do with them (I was still computer illiterate at that point). Fortunately, the guy who linked to the ROMs was not computer illiterate, and a short time later, I fired up Super Punch-Out on MAME, and was seeing and playing it again for the first time since 1988. This was beyond incredible.
So wanting to play this and the other MAME games that I liked on a real arcade monitor and with real arcade controls led me to this site (the main site, not the forums). Getting a real arcade machine still seemed like an unrealistic option to me, but interfacing MAME with real arcade controls and a real arcade monitor seemed to be feasible.
I probably would have ended up with a MAME cabinet if the games I was most interested in playing were "normal". The problem was; Super Punch-Out was far from normal. It had two monitors and an unusual 5-way joystick (pull up to duck). Realizing that MAME wasn't going to be completely satisfactory for my favorite game, I started seriously looking for an actual PO machine. Someone on this forum posted a tip that an operator in PA had a stripped PO cabinet for $50 and gave me his phone number. From there it was a long frustrating process but eventually I had this in my living room:
shardian:
The thought of putting MAME in another cabinet makes me nauseous now. Seriously. I have 3 machines that run MAME, and I like them less and less every day. The Narc MAME will stay though because it is actually a nice setup cabinet wise, and appears like a dedicated machine. Most people that come over like it the best.
Originally I only appreciated the arcade cabinets, thinking that is what made them special. As long as the machine appeared stock, I didn't care what was in them. Over the last year, I have been growing an appreciation for the 'guts' of the machines. That comes from learning how they work and repairing them.
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