MAME Console

gerryk

For those of you who don't know... MAME is the Multi Arcade Machine Emulator.
It emulates the hardware in pretty much all of the old arcade machines you might remember from the 80's and 90's.

MAME will run happily on older hardware... a 3GHz P4 would be a monster MAME machine.

I have wanted to build a MAME Console for a long while now... complete with ball-top joysticks and trackballs (for Marble Madness!)

If anyone is interested, I'll post more details... it might make a nice project for the Labs, and of course, it's always nice to have an arcade machine, right?

Columc

That would be awesom! Would deffintly get invloved in this if you were planning to do it. I'll scrouage around my house as well, might have some equipment laying around!

Inspector Gadget

I assume you guys have seen the Systm episodes about this stuff? Might be useful?

http://revision3.com/systm/mamecase
http://revision3.com/systm/mamecase2
http://revision3.com/systm/buttons
http://revision3.com/systm/software
http://revision3.com/systm/itsover

Gadget

Javajunkie

I would kill for one of these machines. I've been thinking of building one for years now.

gerryk

Inspector Gadget wrote: »

I assume you guys have seen the Systm episodes about this stuff? Might be useful?

http://revision3.com/systm/mamecase
http://revision3.com/systm/mamecase2
http://revision3.com/systm/buttons
http://revision3.com/systm/software
http://revision3.com/systm/itsover

Gadget

I have now

I was aware of pretty much all of the stuff here, but still a nice reference.

PauricTheLodger

So this is finally getting built in the space and the 'testing' is great fun

gerryk

Yup. Gonna get some MDF soon and start work on the cabinet.

heepie

Wohooooo!!!!! Lots of fun..... ehem.... I mean, testing. Lots of testing