re: CADs new obsession - buying & modding 1up cabinets to support full MAME library

Posted on 1/17/20 at 10:16 am to gjackx

Posted by CAD703X

Liberty Island

Member since Jul 2008

78372 posts

Posted on 1/17/20 at 10:16 am to gjackx

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I honestly don't have room for a 1UP cab either.

how small is your apartment? these things are tiny and take up no more room than a plant stand in a corner.

personally i didn't want to get into this until i could have a cabinet to recreate standing in front of a machine for hours in a dark arcade. yeah i had MAME back in the early 1990s running on my Mac but it never really captured the feel and i didnt want the hassle of a full-sized arcade cab.

1up changed everything.

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Posted by gjackx

Red Stick

Member since Jan 2007

16525 posts

Posted on 1/17/20 at 3:21 pm to CAD703X

quote:
how small is your apartment?

It's a house, but this is the one room dedicated to retro gaming. It's already housing a full-sized Golden Tee cab, multiple PCs, a couple of CRTs, a PVM, and several flat screen monitors. Throw in a love seat and a couple of bookshelves and I'm fresh out of space. Because of this, I want to build this setup into one of the existing bookcases which should double as a pretty nice setup (it's got a fold-down part which is where I will set the joystick when playing games, otherwise it will all be closed up in there when not in use).

My only issue is running MAME on the PC in question...people have been offering advice for everything but that! When I start it up, it just spins and spins until I get the "MAME has stopped working" box...I'm running a freshly installed Windows 7, which could be the issue. Any tips on where to look for issues like this? Google hasn't been a lot of help.

Thanks for all the other feedback though, at least I know I'm in the right place