MAME Cabs

[rash2236]

I do not know how I missed this topic too have something to be proud

Video showing how it works, you can already see a newer version of mGalaxy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_BDCHb5gVg

MK Cabinet are my my brother http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0BWn4hayRg

[citizengodden]

lol - yeah I'd kill for those game & watches you've got there!! 

[Aeliss]

 

"little" ?

[Stefan]

The GAME AND WATCH Emu looks good, but there is from "Russia Dev", so i dont believe, that is the .exe installer clean and ok 

Maybe next time i will give it a try, that would be great in Arcade Cab / mGalaxy too !

Look here, my little Treasure 

[citizengodden]

It is funny when people play new games and say they're "hard" - I agree lol. If you could complete a game on your system when we were younger, we would be the talk of the playground at school! Nowadays, of course, games are created to be completed. Everything is stacked in the player's favour. It's the only reason modern games have "achievements" - to balance out the easy game play.

Game & Watch were amazing back in the day. They're looked on with curiosity nowadays - why people would bother to play them. But the idea of having a game you could take with you was ground-breaking stuff. Like having your own arcade machine in your pocket! Taken for granted now with DS and smartphones.

My doughter is 5, and she play "wonderboy" level 1 near perfect 
Pacman is to hard for she ... everytime she eat ghosts, without powerpill 

Yeap that sounds familiar! She's close to completing level 1 - I think it's just the controls that are difficult for her, but she's getting better with (lots of) practice 

I'll fire up WonderBoy for her too and see if she likes it!

[Aeliss]

Yeah ^^

There is an emulator too (Yeah I m agree its more simulation than emulation) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul9QKHtjOAE

or if you are at work http://pica-pic.com/#

ATm I have this one just on my desktop

[Stefan]

ok: i made my machine at a friend, he have a big working room.
atm at home, is was not possible too.

yes you are right, and its bad: our new generation dont know, what is a real game !
i remember to my first "game and watch", and today: kids would not see that.

and funy: all know mario, and many dont know, that he is the jumpman at donkey kong !

btw. i have many G&W, all MultiScreen, and the "Mario Juggler" too, if anybody know this.

[Aeliss]

Terrible, I don't have enought surface in my apartment to make one, perhaps in the future.

Emulator are for that too, for news generations can know the pleasure to play at mario, sonic, pacman, or bomberman between 2 call of duty.

I m afraid to see that some wonderfull game with 10 years old are totally unknow, even they have more gameplay than the last ps3 game.

Monkey island 1 / 2
flashback
Earthstorm
Duck tales (soon a new version ^^)
Shadow of the beast.

Or too hardcore ^^ like kid cameleon or gouls and ghost. New generation make me laught when she use the term "hardgamer" with the XBox/ps3 game.

[Stefan]

No LED, the buttons only transparents, i think looks better as a normal.colored.

First, i wanted to buy LED buttons, but then i have seen the extra work for it - no 
Maybe it is not the big-work ... but my question is: when is the LED broken, i must do open again all the chaos of parts ... better no 
 
Last 2 years, i had another "full size", but this was big, and NOT 100% selfmade, so my dream was one selfmade, i sold this big machine (pics bottom), and start my work with the new one at the end of 2012.
In the old, there was an old pc inside, and no pinball buttons, i have added two sidebuttons, and replaced a "stoneage-keyboard-hack" with an ipac 32-encoder.
then replaced big TV screen for TFT, glass for plexi-glass, build in more speakers, other PC, a Fan (at last it was a heating!), ...
the better thing at the old, there was a LED lamp behind the marquee at top, was very nice in dark room !

My doughter is 5, and she play "wonderboy" level 1 near perfect 
Pacman is to hard for she ... everytime she eat ghosts, without powerpill 

[citizengodden]

A great table-top cab and it must have been a really fun project.

I would die for a full-sized one, even though my wife would probably have a few things to say about that!!! The kids would love it though - I have a six year old daughter that adores Pacman! I would probably never be able to play it during the evening because she would constantly be on it 

[Aeliss]

Lot of work, but the final result is really impressive, there are leds too with light effect (I see your buttons transparents) ?

[Stefan]

Here are some impressions from my works,
take a special look at the power supply picture, i have INCLUDE the TFT power cable into the PC power supply, so i have only 1 switch to turn on the machine ( TFT should be with a function auto power on = some have, some not )

The last Pic, cable connects, this was a nightmare ... 

[citizengodden]

When the cash and the favours allow - I'll definitely check it out. Thanks

[Stefan]

maybe you need this anytime:
http://www.arcadeshop.de here i have buyed my arcadeparts,
the others: a good mini-atx mainboard, strong CPU/GPU inside to all emus run nice, 19 " TFT, pc parts ... HDD, RAM, blabla ...
any wood plates, plexi glass ... and many time 

and one of my friends is a carpenter, so the cab built was easyer for me.

[citizengodden]

That's beautiful Stefan! I'm so envious  - did you build it yourself?

EDIT: Sorry yes you did build it. Great work!