There's *going to be* a new MAME cabinet in town.

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:06 pm

Where did you get that trackball? All the ones I've seen are expensive.

Super Cameraman · Post by **Super Cameraman** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:01 pm

I have no idea, my uncle built it. The bottom of it says happcontrols.com, though.

-Super

Nucklez · Post by **Nucklez** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:20 pm

I love my arcade too. There is a little pic of it in my sig. I never have made a complete website about how I made it. I actually hacked up an old keyboard to run the joystick. I made it like a combo of an arcade cabinet/console. It has the 8 way joystick, 8 player buttons, a Start and Select button (to better work with NES), Player 1, Coin and Esc buttons. It was probably the best project I've ever worked on, and me and my family enjoy it practically every day.

khaag · Post by **khaag** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:02 pm

Super Cameraman wrote:Oh yeah, forgot to mention that! I love the background for the buttons! Looks way better than my black (chipping) paint!

-Super

Thanks. (and thankyou as well turbo) I worked really hard to get the background just right. If you look closely, you can see a hexagon pattern goes over the whole thing. I thought it was a neat touch.

madc0w wrote:Where did you get that trackball? All the ones I've seen are expensive.

Ya it is expensive. Thats the whole reason I opted not to put a trackball on mine. At Happ, its over $100.

And on the subject of cabinet artwork, here is my marquee:

Now this piece of artwork took me some time. I think it took about 3 hours in total...

Super Cameraman · Post by **Super Cameraman** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:35 pm

Looks good to me!

Here's one I plan to put in mine!

I just have no idea where to print it.

-Super

khaag · Post by **khaag** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:44 pm

Did you make that yourself? And about the printing... If you have photoshop, create a 7 1/2" grid guide over your marquee, then copy/paste each segment into a new document, then print each piece separately, then glue/tape it back together. Thats how i did mine anyway. Saves a lot of money on printing costs. Otherwise, you could go to a local print shop and talk to them...

loup · Post by **loup** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:47 pm

Super Cameraman wrote:Looks good to me!

Here's one I plan to put in mine!

I just have no idea where to print it.

-Super

As Khaag said, you could print it in sections and then tape it together. I personally don't like the way this looks and would suggest putting it on a cd/disk/flash drive, going to kinkos (or similar printing shop) and having it printed out there. You'll be able to have it printed out on one big sheet and it will look nicer

Nucklez · Post by **Nucklez** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:24 am

As for the control panel, marquee and bezel I would recommend

http://www.mamemarquees.com/

I had my marquee printed by them and it looks great! Currently I have simply printed and taped my control panel and bezel together, but I plan on having them print those for me as well. They tell you all the specs you need to send them the file of your work, and they will let you know if the quality will be bad from what you give them. My marquee looks great! It is glossy, and the lights behind it shine through very nicely without washing it all out at all. I've heard that Kinko's and other normal printing shops don't do near as good a job as the online arcade print shops.

khaag · Post by **khaag** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:04 pm

Ya!

Got my Keywiz encoder yesterday, so I'm just going to go wire up the control panel. I'll post pics when its finished...

Khaag

khaag · Post by **khaag** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:13 pm

OK, I've run into my first problem so far, and it has nothing to do with hardware; this is a pure software problem (I'm pretty sure.)

First, i'd like to say that i've finished wiring up my control panel, and it works like a charm... in notepad anyways. I've yet to try it with MAME yet because of my software problem. Alright, so this is what i'm doing: I open up MAME32 and it opens like normal. Then, when I click on a game, it starts to load, (the MAME32 window disappears) and then just when I think the game is going to start, It just jumps back to the MAME32 menu. I'm postive it has nothing to do with my CP, because it does this with or without the CP plugged into the PS/2 port on my PC. The weird thing is a couple of years ago, I had MAME32 istalled on this exact same PC and it worked perfectly. I'm just wondering what is happening now. Is it possible that this new MAME32 version is not compatable with my system? And if so, where can I get an older version?

Here are the specs of the PC im running:

-Windows 98 SE
-64 MB Ram
-8 MB 3D AGP video card
-20 GB HDD
-Pentium 3

If anybody has any ideas, that would help a lot!

Thanks,
Khaag

loup · Post by **loup** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:26 pm

I would suggest trying it out with standard mame, just to see if the problem is specific to mame32.

[edit] also, looking at the specs of your computer I'm seeing something that could also be a small problem. Mame reworked how it processes the graphics in a recent release (.103 I think, but I'm not sure) and I would assume that mame32 probably integrated the change as well. Your old 8MB video card may actually not be enough to run it any more

khaag · Post by **khaag** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:42 pm

loup wrote: [edit] also, looking at the specs of your computer I'm seeing something that could also be a small problem. Mame reworked how it processes the graphics in a recent release (.103 I think, but I'm not sure) and I would assume that mame32 probably integrated the change as well. Your old 8MB video card may actually not be enough to run it any more

Yep, that was the problem. I downloaded 0.85 and it works perfectly good now. Thanks,
Khaag

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