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Has anyone in Ireland wired a PC to an arcade machine for MAME etc?

10-10-2002 10:22am

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malachyduffin

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Has anyone in Ireland wired a PC to an arcade machine for MAME etc?

I bought a NeoGeo two player unit, ripped out the PCB and tried unsuccessfully to do this ( the smell of solder put me off after a few days! )

If you have already done it, send in some pics!

Mal

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#2 10-10-2002 11:52am

LoGiE

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It's been discussed among other things in these threads...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53086&highlight=build
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=62011&highlight=build
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=49630&highlight=build

Best of luck with your project!;)

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#3 11-10-2002 8:36pm

spooky donkey

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mate of mine is working on it at the moment but got no pics of it yet! Its still a work in progress, and has been for some time.
If he ever finishes it!

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#4 12-10-2002 12:27pm

Ronan|Raven

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Im currently in the process of converting one of my arcade cabinets into a M.A.M.E conversion. Its one of those jobs that i'll take forever to compelte but it'll be worth it (I hope!)

I've currently a 450 mhz processor, 256 megs of ram,32mb gf2mx pci gfx card and a 10 gig HD which will hold more than enough for my needs. For your viewing pleasure ive got a few links to some good pages and some well not as good pages ..... Once I get a digital camera ill start to put some pictures together of the entire project. Anyway enough of my waffle here are the links.

http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade_examples.php <= Its a good page with lots of links to many different types of conversions.

http://mame.dockingbay.net/ <= A general overall page

http://www.oneilldesigns.com/mame/ < Another persons conversion, seems to be a good page and updated frequently.

http://www.arcadeathome.com/aah.phtml <= Some good frontends to be had here.

http://www.mrsalty.net/links2.shtml <= Another very good site. It covers nearly everything you could possibly want to know.

Anyway hope these are of some use to you

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#5 14-10-2002 9:01pm

pienerschnitzel

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me and my mate built our own arcade cabinet with a pc we put mane on it, works fine except for a few games which need a lot more eran then it has (NARK for example) ill post some pics in a little while
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