Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Consoles => Topic started by: daywane on August 18, 2004, 09:53:46 pm
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I could not think of a better name off hand. (stolen from arcade in box) I always wanted one !
I want to build A home intertainment system
I have 1/2 of what I need. (pc hardware at least)
I want to clear out my living room of all my game systems and build a box for emus. joysticks will come from here http://www.sealiecomputing.com/retrozone/retropadatari.html
still need a Mother board to use my 1.2 gig celeron cpu
I have 256megs 168 pin memeory and 40 gig hard drive
windows xp ( I could use 98se but then I could not burn dvd with it)
question 1) all my emus are windows based ( no front ends) any ideas how to change this ( I have tried command line MAME many times and never got a darn thing to work >:( )
question 2 : I found a neet program once ( did not work in windows me) It showed your console and mame Icon in a circle and your joystick moved the console you wanted to the first in line spot and started that emu program. very cool.
any links to this program? I lost it. has it been updated any?
I want this to be a vary simple set up for kids to play with out me having to explane every move more than a few 100 times ;) I plan on all controlls being usb
I will probably make a custom box. small as I can make it.
any one done something like this I would like to see some of your work please.
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1. Change your EMUs to command line, Front-end friendly emulators. DO some searches on this site for the recommended lsit of emus.
2. Download and learn to configure one of the popular front-ends (check the Software forum) they'll all support what you're trying to do. (Multiple emulators from one front-end)
3. Remember that the simpler you want the end result to be, the more time and effort you'll have to put in when putting the thing together.