Anyone built a MAME cabinet?

[Sid]

Daphne... WOW...

having trouble locating the roms for dragon's lair...

anyone know where i can look? (Key word FREE)

[Angry_Radish]

Are you looking just for the roms, and have the laserdiscs, or do you need the entire set for mame?

[trout16]

Daphne... WOW...

having trouble locating the roms for dragon's lair...

anyone know where i can look? (Key word FREE)

http://www.daphne-emu.com/download.php this may be a start for you sid?

[dishpan]

I'm stuck in the assemby phase with all the pieces ready to go. Ran out of time. Using a generic Taito cab, 21" Multi-sync with Slikstik panels. Haven't decided on a front end program yet.

[Sid]

Are you looking just for the roms, and have the laserdiscs, or do you need the entire set for mame?

AR,

well i have the Daphne program..

I just need the files to run Dragon's Lair the rom equivilants ( if i remember correctly daphne had video files or something its been a while )
basically i need Dragon's Lair...

[Youngjedi]

I have also wanted to put Dragon's layer into my cabinet. The best that I can come up with in my research is that the original arcade game actually had a lazer disk inside it and it fed you the scenes depending on how quick you were with that joy stick. I have not seen or heard of anyone putting the scenes from Dragon's layer or Space Ace into rom sets yet.

If anyone knows if this can be done, please let me know

[Angry_Radish]

Use daphne, and either search the p2p networks, or head over here
http://www.allgameroms.com/product.asp?P_ID=125

[trout16]

http://www.bmigaming.com/arcadelegen...onslairpac.htm

[Angry_Radish]

For a frontend, there are a bunch, but I prefer mamewah
http://mamewah.mameworld.net/screenshots.htm

[SChaos]

I play the mame games on my XBOX.

Those cabinets and setups are AMAZING. If I had a dedicated game room I'd want to build one of those too...

[Angry_Radish]

yeah, I've been playing em on my xbox as well, but it's just not the same without the real controls:-)

I play the mame games on my XBOX.

Those cabinets and setups are AMAZING. If I had a dedicated game room I'd want to build one of those too...

[H20Dreams]

Alright... Can someone tell me what MAME means??

[vgc]

Multi Arcade Machine Emulator. A PC emulating arcade games with the same roms in the Arcades. Mike : )

[johntofva]

And I thought it was one of those people who pretended to be in a box that you wanted to kill.

[vgc]

No, that a Man Acting Meaningless Emotions. Too many beers. Mike : )

OOpps! Mime. Man Inside Making Enactments !

[evh347]

I cannot sing the praises enough of SlikStik. If you want to avoid alot of hassles...go there to begin with:

http://slikstik.com

I have basically the same setup as my SlikStik pal (Industen) and he has had a wonderful guide up on this site:

http://joelsgadgets.com/index.html

Industen has a "Quad" SlikStik panel...while I utilize the CO2...with P360, ikari rotary sticks, 4way J-Stick, full pinball option, and trackball swapping upgrades. I've lit the whole thing up with LEDs similar to Industen's setup and it looks awesome!

My system features a Wells Gardner 27" monitor, Blaupunkt (car stereo) speakers, Creative Labs 2.1 sound system (hack)...and all of this runs on my Alienware 3.06Ghz Pentium IV with 1GB RAM...and my 120GB hard drive is nearly full.

I have over 6000 MAME games, every NES, every SNES, every N64, every Sega Master System, every Sega Genesis, every Atari 2600, every LaserDisc, every Colecovision, every Intellivision, and every pinball (Visual PinMame) game known to man. I also incorporate and LCD topgun (lightgun) for all the lightgun games you can think of.

If you're looking for LaserDisc games...quit kidding around and get with the program...that's Daphne. Search the web for a reliable "burner" and don't waste time trying to download those huge files. It's worth the money. While configuring Daphne to run the roms will initially create lots of headaches, the payoff is unbelievable. The commercial CDrom versions of Dragon's Lair and Space Ace are not even in the same ballpark as when run with Daphne.

For the Frontend...except nothing less than the best...most updated...and easiest to configure (in the long run)...GAMEex....here:
http://tomspeirs.com/gameex/

It's taken me a few years to get it to this point...but, I can safely say that I own a front-row ticket to the pinnacle/monolith of gaming central.

SlikStik...SlikStik...SlikStik...SlikStik...SlikStik...SlikS tik...

You can't go wrong with SlikStik!

[Angry_Radish]

Thanks for all the info!
I plan on building my cabinet and controls, the wife would kill me if I didn't use the thousands of dollars of woodworking stuff in the basement:-)
That, and I actually LIKE wiring (electronics geek)

I'm going to decase a 27"tv and run svideo for now, Hopefully in the future I'll have some extra funds for the wells screen and an arcadevga card.

I have plenty of cumputer stuff around the house (network admin), so piecing together a 2ghz box should be pretty easy, and I have some smaller advent home speakers and a couple smaller home amps laying around, I'll just have to hack in some sort of volume control and all should be well. I thought about going the car speaker route, but decided that since I'll be using this as a jukebox, I may as well have some decent range speakers & sub in there


*edit* Just watched the demo video of gameEx that's great!
I hear you on the hard drive issue, I was wondering how much space all those roms would take up, I decided that I'll pull one of my sata 250gigs out of my main pc and use that then, no sence in running out of space, especially if you count the mp3's for a jukebox:-)

With the lightguns you use, are there any problems running the arcade roms for lightgun games (jurassic park, etc..)? How did you run them to the ipac?

Thanks again for the great info, any pics of yours?

[evh347]

With the lightguns you use, are there any problems running the arcade roms for lightgun games (jurassic park, etc..)? How did you run them to the ipac?

Here's all the LCD Topgun info you'll need:
http://wizardsworks.org/chod/gun/topgun.htm


I don't have any real recent pics of my cabinet, but I'll try and get some up for you later on...stay tuned.

[Angry_Radish]

These things look great, but I already have some guncons laying around, havent been able toi use them since I switched to my bigscreen.
I figure since I'll be using a 27" tv they should be useable, I'm just not sure how they will work with mame:-)

[compirate]

My vision of a one (or two) game cabinet:

Take an old, none working Pachislo cabinet, remove the reels and interior parts, the belly, reel, and header glass. Replace it with custom glass with graphics of the game you put on the machine. Where the reels were put a 15" LCD (unless a 15" CRT would work better). Motherboard and other components would fit easily in the cabinet. Re-do the coin in mech to signal the game, redo the switches and start lever to act as inputs (Start lever redone to work as 2 or 4 way switch).

Figured to go with the pachi theme, I'd put Pachinko Sexy Reaction 1 and 2.
Coin in- coin slot
Shooter knob adjustment - start lever (nudge left or right)
Shoot balls - right of 3 reel stop buttons
Start and Select - 1st and 2nd buttons
Replace the lights around the edges (depends on the case your using) with LED's and control them with one of those LED controllers (flashes a set of 8 or 10 LED's in several different patterns, just connect every 8th or 10th LED together).

Not sure if there are other pachinko or pachislo game roms out there (to keep it more G-rated)