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Is MAME in mono?
garnerb350:
--- Quote from: javeryh on August 19, 2009, 07:17:54 am ---I think I need one of those converters. The games sounded horrible last night. I have MAME running in a DK cabinet but there is only the one speaker cutout for sound to escape. I need to think of a good solution - the speaker cutout is also much bigger than the crappy little speakers I was planning to use so I'm thinking I need something bigger.
Any ideas? What would you do?
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Depending on the version of mame can determine how your sound is...I know myself i preferred the v.117 mame compared to my v.129 one. (older versions used wav samples)...
This might be off the wall...but ponder this....could you take a regular 2.1 speaker setup and maybe place the satellite speakers up top behind the marquee and place the sub down in the bottom (maybe the coin box) or maybe mount the sub there behind the speaker cutout on the DK cab?...
I bought a cheap 2.1 pc speaker w sub for my cab ...and it was about 19 bucks... ( i think i paid 15 at a K-mart last year)
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=322399&CatId=98
Speakers themselves are 1.5 x3 inches....the sub is i think a 3-4 inch...( that little joker makes pretty decent bass for its size) The sub box is roughly the size if not smaller than a 6x9 speaker.
Now i could be wrong...but werent the speaker on DKs a 6x9?
This is all brainstorming...but i hope it helps...
I hope i can be able to find me a DK cab like you did...Keep up the good work
javeryh:
Those are some good suggestions. I'm not sure putting the speakers behind the marquee would work. Last night I had the sub on the base of the cabinet and one speaker resting on the coin box on the inside and it was just awful. Even someone who doesn't know anything about arcade cabinets would be wondering why the sound was so bad. I have a 2.1 setup very similar to yours - they were $20 and the little sub is surprisingly competent.
I'm not sure about the original speaker on a DK but 6x9 doesn't seem out of the question. The cutout under the CP is quite large. I also have an old pair of Bose speakers that came with a Gateway about 10 years ago. The speakers are so small that maybe there is room for both behind the speaker cutout.
I really need to figure this out - Tomorrow night is the deadline to finish. Friday I am having a house full of guys over for the fantasy football draft and I want this thing playable! :cheers:
Beretta:
ah ya im gonna have the same problem as you.
have you thought of taking a piece of plexi the size of the cutout then cutting a hole in the plexi and mounting the speakers to it? sort of like an adapter plate.
or you could use the thin wood sheeting they use for flooring, it's like quarter inch or something. i have some of that laying around thats probably what i'll use.
MaximRecoil:
Punch-Out is a 4-way game that is not technically vertical, but when you don't have two horizontal monitors, a single vertical monitor is the next best thing, since the way MAME combines the two horizontal screens into one ends up being pretty close to a standard vertical aspect ratio (rotate Punch-Out 90 degrees and set its aspect ratio to 3:2 rather than 4:3 and it will fit a vertical monitor perfectly).
In any event, Punch-Out is dual mono. The music and sound effects come out of the left speaker and the announcer's voice comes out of the right speaker. However, I don't know if MAME correctly emulates that or not.
orion:
If the cab is made for a 6x9 speaker, I would say just buy a pair of car 6x9 speakers off of ebay or someplace cheap. 6x9 speakers produce pretty decent bass and would negate the need for a sub from one of those cheap 3 piece PC setups. One 6x9 speaker should even sound better than one of those mini PC stereo subs. You could then gut the PC speakers you already have and use its amp, bridging it's stereo channels together (which would give you more watts to the bigger 6x9... if the amp can support the speakers Ohm's) or buy something like this to power it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Lepai-TA2020-Class-T-Amp-Mini-Stereo-Amplifier-20WX2_W0QQitemZ120455187052QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item1c0bb04a6c&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
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