Afro & Afro's Friend's MAME Cab of Awesomeness

Discussion in 'NES' started by AfroLH, Mar 1, 2015.

  1. AfroLH

    AfroLH Frequent Poster

    So, my friend and I are currently planning on making a Vewlix-style MAME cab.
    The currently planned features are:

    -PC & Xbox 360 inside the cab
    -2 Player controls
    -32' LCD TV
    -Hyperspin Frontend
    -USB ports for gamepads
    -Emulators for NES, SNES, Genesis, PS1, N64, Gamecube, PS2, Dreamcast, Neo-Geo & CD, CPS1 & 2 (& hopefully 3), and of course, MAME.
    -Some sort of Jukebox mode

    We're pretty early in the planning stages, but the general style we're going for is something like this:
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    A sit-down, Vewlix-like cab.
    It's gonna be pretty sick, hopefully.

    It's probably gonna take a while for us to finish this (parts are expensive D:), but we hope to have it done by the end of the year.

    Any of you guys have any advice or suggestions for us? We're pretty open to anything at this point.
     
  2. Prog

    Prog Not a Meme™ Staff Member

    Are you going to try to get full analog on the sticks (mostly for Xbox) or are you just gonna go 4/8 way?
     
  3. AfroLH

    AfroLH Frequent Poster

    I think we're gonna stick with the 4/8 way. Although, I'm not opposed to upgrading to something like this in the future: http://www.ultimarc.com/ultrastik_info.html
     
  4. Zero

    Zero ModRetro Legend Administrator

    Man, I always wanted to do this but I either never have the space or the time. What front-end are you looking at using?
     
  5. bud

    bud DAT ASS

    AFRO CAN'T MAKE THINGS
     
  6. Bush

    Bush sweet justice

    Please tell me you're going to use a crt monitor with rgb
     
  7. AfroLH

    AfroLH Frequent Poster

    Well, I think the two we are deciding between is Hyperspin and MaLa. We might also try out Maximus Arcade because I think it comes with the X-Arcade stick.

    Truuuuuu

    Unfortunately, no. We're just going with a flat screen to save space. If we had a bigger, more permanent house, Wed probably use a CRT, but it's just too bulky.
     
  8. Bush

    Bush sweet justice

    Aww. I suppose you can probably generate scanlines through software on the pc.
     
  9. AfroLH

    AfroLH Frequent Poster

    Re:

    Definitely. And honestly, one of the main reasons I'm doing this is for Street Fighter 4 and BlazBlue, so scanlines aren't really a big issue for me.
     
  10. Prog

    Prog Not a Meme™ Staff Member

    Don't worry Bush, I'll have a modified TV in mine. I should probably make a worklog for that... tomorrow.
     
  11. Bush

    Bush sweet justice

    Do it. I want to make one with an old Sony rgb monitor.
     
  12. AfroLH

    AfroLH Frequent Poster

    Our X-Arcade stick has shipped! :D

    Our first plan is to mod the X-Arcade's sticks to have the ball-top (Japanese style) Sanwa sticks.
     
  13. nevermind1534

    nevermind1534 Active Member

    Did I ever share my MAME cabinet on here?
     
  14. Prog

    Prog Not a Meme™ Staff Member

    A search of your posts suggests that you did not.