Why buy a board when you can mame??

[cRacKh0rN]

I never found one that would fit there nicely, plus no spare pins in the harness connectors

That's saved me some pain then
Back to the drawing board

[TadCool]

Old pic. Not all boards connected, but Raiden DX mounted permanently to the side wood, Batrider in the PCB mount, and 4 SH3 boards. What you can't see is a further PCB mount further up near the monitor, mounted horizontally - that will fit smaller boards.

Excellent use of space, Cools. Inspiring.

[FrancoB]

I never found one that would fit there nicely, plus no spare pins in the harness connectors

That's saved me some pain then
Back to the drawing board

I could fit a test button to your headphone adapter if you like.

[gargoyle67]

GroovyMAME, is great when it's set up, It was the only way I didn't get scroll judder/tear

[arcnl]

GroovyMAME, is great when it's set up, It was the only way I didn't get scroll judder/tear

mame -triplebuffer should get rid of that too?

[gargoyle67]

GroovyMAME, is great when it's set up, It was the only way I didn't get scroll judder/tear

mame -triplebuffer should get rid of that too?

Nope, I have tried everything in the past only Groovymame made everything silky smooth.

[bloodhokuto]

Love your setup cools!

As for me and MAME, it's always been a real pain to get a decent MAME set up, as I've been on OSX since about 2003.

I used to use Macmame, which was ok, then found out that I couldn't use that in os's after Snowy Leopard as it wasn't universal.

I then migrated to MAME OSX and save as to the recent CAVE stuff (which I do want to get running) I have got most of the stuff I want running.

A while back I found that MAME OSX won't run on Lion+, so started up SDLMAME using a nice little automator short cut to boot into it.

Problem is that now all my ROMs won't run and I am back at square one -when I do finally upgrade to Mavericks that is. I think I'm gonna hold back as long as possible only SL, not just because of that, but also because I just really like Snow Leopard.

I guess when I finally upgrade my Mac Mini I'll just have to go the bootcamp route as it seems like its easier to get a decent MAME set up in Windows.

But whilst I have good set up with my emu, I still really like to play my Neo Geo home console, it just 'feels' better and I like the original kit.

In my cab I have one of those 450 in 1 jamma mini PC's and I think its great but I seem to spend as much time swapping between games and then getting bored. I did recently start playing the heck out of Alpha 3 - like I forgot how fun the game was.

So ... despite that I have that game on the 450 in my cab, I went out and ... picked up a CPS2 board of Zero3 - am dead chuffed with it!

It prompted me to fix the fan in my CPS2 - which now sounds really good. I also started a project on upgrading a DC Stick to use on my Sigma with the kick harness (I'm about half way done).

So ... after all that blurb ...

I think that MAME is great I get a chance to experience all these great games, and the ones I really, really like I then track down on PCB.

Owning the PCB of a game that you love feels pretty good and its worth the cost - at least to me.

I guess its like, if someone downloads tons of MP3's then becomes a big fan of some obscure band who happen to bring out some Ltd edition vinyl and you're all over it.

Something like that - alternatively we are all mugs!

[Pete]

I wonder if anybody at Play Expo cared that I had mame running on my cab ?

[ninn]

I did not care.

[Ex_Mosquito]

@Pete. Hah probably not! I remember playing on that cab at PlayExpo last year for over 20minutes without even realising it was on Mame. The only reason I found out was when the Mame config menu came up when you did a certain combination of inputs, but as soon as you and Ralph fixed it it was fine again. I would suggest upgrading to GroovyMame just to make that much more perfect

[Pete]

Thanks I made special effort for this year to disable all the config lockouts & mame did not crash all weekend.

[Pete]

There was a nice video on YT featuring of the AO stand at play expo but it has been removed (uploader closed his account) luckily I had a back-up & edited out all the other stuff before uploading it to my own account:

[Johnnychaos]

which was yours Pete?

[TheRedKnight]

I wouldn't mind a nice space efficient MAME setup for pre-JAMMA standard single screen games.

[Pete]

which was yours Pete?

The Versus its the cab closest in the video with the flyers on the side surely you must if know that ? as you recently asked me to sell the cab

[ArcadeMugs]

To me I guess it's kind of like comparing backed up media to physical Blu-Rays and DVDs. I have a massive collection of downloaded media and it is all kind of the same although compressed. As and when time and finances allow I do replace my downloaded media with the real physical things.

Mame serves its purpose but for the purists and the true gamers I suppose nothing compares to knowing the real thing is sat inside your cabinet

[markedkiller78]

for the purists and the true gamers I suppose nothing compares to knowing the real thing is sat inside your cabinet

2 different things. One the biggest "true gamers" here is ex-mosquieto and he uses mame.

Collectors and gamers are the 2 polar extremes I see with most people falling somewhere between.

There is no wrong way to do it, providing its legal and you are having fun you ate on to a winner.

[WINNOWING]

for the purists and the true gamers I suppose nothing compares to knowing the real thing is sat inside your cabinet

One the biggest "true gamers" here is ex-mosquieto and he uses mame.
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That does not prove anything, certain games are unplayable on mame. And the fact about real thing is absolutely true. I wouldn't believe it, IF I did not compare

[gundarN]

Why MAME when you can buy a board?

[arcnl]

Why MAME when you can buy a board?

the sickening profiteering and price inflation of the last years is starting to affect my enjoyment of getting original boards