the one thing i don't get is, where is mame installed to? I know it's a stupid question (i'm new to this) but it seems like it's on a seperate computer just for the mame software. The only way i could get this to work is by connecting a cabinet to an actual PC then running mame off that. Can you help me on this?
Beautiful cabinet, you should be proud! Did you build it all yourself or by a kit to assemble for the cab? If it's original would you share the plans? I'd really like to build one based off yours.
Awesome machine dude. The screen looks great in there. I'm impressed that the P4 with 1GB runs the preview screens and roms so nicely. I guess if it's streamlined to do so it would make sense. So what OS does someone use for something like this? Anyone???
wooooooow, i m starting to build my first cabinet in about 30 days, as soon as i get back too europe, im doing a lot of reading to get things right, your cabinet is just awesome, is there any webpage, book etc you d suggest, hopefully in a few month time i can post a video myself
To sell? Not sure... I've seen full units go for a 1000-2000 dollars but it's illegal to sell with any software. you could pretty much just build the unit and the computer and leave it up to the user to get the games on it. There isn't any justifible money in making these unless you can make them for REALLY cheap by making them by the hundred and cloning the setups... trust me, myself and about a 1000 other people have already tried it.
that's a mamewah.ini setting. setup mamewah and in the ini file for the preview artwork just reference your folder with the appropriate named video files.
@leifashley27 I was curious is it possible to put a list of games on one machine? I've got a list of games whhich I would like to put on just one machine?
hey can you help me? i saw in Zophar's domain MAMEWAH is not a frontend with MAME32, just MAME, so how well will MAMEWAH run UMK3? i think it would run perfect but i need to make sure, I don't have a PC now, it crashed, and I know MAME isn't possible on the Wii xP
wow man nice job ..... even though we are in age of ps3 or xbox360 nothing compares to classic games im definately gonna give it a shot myself .... thnx for sharing
hiya, love your machine, you must be very happy with it. can i ask what version of mame wah are you using and where can you download the preview videos from
hey great job on the cab. what MAME version did you used for the cab? you should show how it also play the other emulatos.... but over all, Great Job. i cant wait to start my project to build my own.
I got mame 0.128 (MAMEUI) and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 isn't working at all (Yes, I have the parent rom which is original Mortal Kombat 3), it was working on 0.127u1 which I was using before, actually I still have a copy of it and it plays perfectly, but doesn't appear on any of the 3 0.128 versions at all! when I type on the search bar and find it, I double click and it tells me I'm missing a bunch of files, what happened? has UMK3 been broken now? does anybody have this problem with this game?
Look for a program called "instant sheller" it's on the gameEX website. This will load up windows in the background and "shell" into a program (mamewah, mala, etc). Pretty easy to use.
The cabinet took about 3 weekends to get right. The bulk of the build went into the configuration and the control panel. It's one of those projects that now doing one, I could knock out in a weekend but spread over 2 years or configuring, building, designing, etc, etc, and then getting married and moving in the middle.
Plus the biggest mistake you can get is to make it "playable but not finished." I think I got to that point and played it for 3 months without any further building.
nice cab!! what do you think is the best mame to download?? i have mame0126b and mame32++, one plays some roms and the other one plays other roms, i need a mame that would work all roms, so i can use mamewah, please help
The best one to use is always the latest but some versions run some games better than others. You can play scud race on 119 pretty well but not on 126. 126u2 has the best dkong though. Just depends on what you're wanting to play. For 95% of the people out there, the latest should be the best build.
getting the games to work is the easy u can downlad mame to your pc now and runn tons and tons of game but rigging it up to your arcade machine u need a jammer one and then u need a j pack simply plug it in and sound leads.
what the hard work is is restoring the cab buttons , installing a trackerball etc, but u can get a basic 6 button jamma machine, then get your self a j pack and a old pc hey u have a mame machine
That's just magnificent, it really is. By far the best cab I have seen. Wish I was more technically minded to set one up. I'll stick to my PC for now.
Thank you man! I look forward to 1) redoing this one, and 2) building another one for my brother... I'll post vids of each as those projects progress.
HI NICE WORK!! Can you please tell me how to do that,, Ive been trying to get the front end to work but seem i cant figure it out, pls send me where you download it,,,^__^
Very Clean where did you get your artwork
cmoneyboise 3 weeks ago
the one thing i don't get is, where is mame installed to? I know it's a stupid question (i'm new to this) but it seems like it's on a seperate computer just for the mame software. The only way i could get this to work is by connecting a cabinet to an actual PC then running mame off that. Can you help me on this?
technologyinfo 1 year ago
Beautiful cabinet, you should be proud! Did you build it all yourself or by a kit to assemble for the cab? If it's original would you share the plans? I'd really like to build one based off yours.
suiCYANIDEable 1 year ago
im plannin on buildin one of those. it will have four joysticks, a trackball, a keyboard, light guns, and a pc built inside.
saphirewind186 1 year ago
NOVICE!!!! FUCKING NOVICE
drphem 1 year ago
were do you get the preview videos from
GILakaGP3 1 year ago
Awesome machine dude. The screen looks great in there. I'm impressed that the P4 with 1GB runs the preview screens and roms so nicely. I guess if it's streamlined to do so it would make sense. So what OS does someone use for something like this? Anyone???
seeser 1 year ago
Check out how the pro's do it :)
Dream Home Arcades
DreamHomeArcades 1 year ago
MAME TOP 115 in my channel !!!
felipebrasil5 1 year ago
wooooooow, i m starting to build my first cabinet in about 30 days, as soon as i get back too europe, im doing a lot of reading to get things right, your cabinet is just awesome, is there any webpage, book etc you d suggest, hopefully in a few month time i can post a video myself
foxyfoxyfo 1 year ago
How many games do you have and how long did it take you to get all of them? Nice vid by the way.
JoeCnNd 1 year ago
where did you buy the coin box ??????????????
princevinny97 1 year ago
nice project....where can I download that version of mame???
michaelboett173 1 year ago
can you make one and sell it to me?
SubZeroGTA 1 year ago
Very good and this PC is very fast with Mame!
My PC dont is fast like your PC.
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São Paulo - Brazil
animeja 2 years ago
Amazing - what a great idea
LukeBasarab 2 years ago
how much would these go for?
akumatiti 2 years ago
To sell? Not sure... I've seen full units go for a 1000-2000 dollars but it's illegal to sell with any software. you could pretty much just build the unit and the computer and leave it up to the user to get the games on it. There isn't any justifible money in making these unless you can make them for REALLY cheap by making them by the hundred and cloning the setups... trust me, myself and about a 1000 other people have already tried it.
leifashley27 2 years ago
oh i see
so where did you get everything to make it?
im refuring to the hardware not the software
akumatiti 2 years ago
How did you get that games's previews at mame menu?
Ramazanook23 2 years ago
that's a mamewah.ini setting. setup mamewah and in the ini file for the preview artwork just reference your folder with the appropriate named video files.
leifashley27 2 years ago
Beautiful cab. How can I get the preview movies? I'm using mamewah too.
sonofsam717 2 years ago
Well done mate.Good work.
captinkao 2 years ago
what about delaying the start up for the tv until mame is loaded thats a way to hide ur bios
klote2314 2 years ago
That's the plan... I'd have to do it with a timed relay of sorts.
leifashley27 2 years ago
That is a great layout! Could you please email me the file? I will shoot you payment if you would like. Thanks
afoth01 2 years ago
Wow... your mame cab is amazing!, so beautiful..
codrr 2 years ago
how do you conect the coin opp is it conected to the keyboard or is it more complecated?
Robobbly 2 years ago
Using unused inputs from the IPAC to register coin activity.
leifashley27 2 years ago
Thanks so much you realy helpd. *Virtual Hug*
Robobbly 2 years ago
@leifashley27 I was curious is it possible to put a list of games on one machine? I've got a list of games whhich I would like to put on just one machine?
KingTMD 1 year ago
@leifashley27 How much did this cost you? Would you make anotehr to sell?
KingTMD 1 year ago
Yeah very cool, way to go. I was wondering, is it pretty easy to get the PC to support an arcade monitor?
maestro4202 2 years ago
How did you get rid of the legal notices when running a rom???????
Because that is my next step
inachu 2 years ago
That is awesome!!! I'd love to have my own MAME cab ^^
JMaxVG 2 years ago
hey can you help me? i saw in Zophar's domain MAMEWAH is not a frontend with MAME32, just MAME, so how well will MAMEWAH run UMK3? i think it would run perfect but i need to make sure, I don't have a PC now, it crashed, and I know MAME isn't possible on the Wii xP
PIKACHU49386 2 years ago
very nice, i have to agree on old games haveing an edge over the modern stuff my PS3 hardly gets used nowadys
gazz8720 2 years ago
That is one beautiful cabinet. The perfect cabinet that only exists in my head looks very similar. Now I just need to build it...
vidmanx0 2 years ago
shit now all you gotta do is:
get a dual core-
4GB +RAM
update GPU
bigger HDD(for CHD's)
and get the illegal bios files that allow play of the 2k7-2k9 games!
but yeah best one ive seen..but a dual core would do a world of justice..see if you can fit one in that MoBo..?
BTW great presentation!
Mirthless79 2 years ago
That mame cab is ONE-DUH-FULL.
emeryDH 2 years ago
wow man nice job ..... even though we are in age of ps3 or xbox360 nothing compares to classic games im definately gonna give it a shot myself .... thnx for sharing
jodhan79 2 years ago
Isn't it sad? All this technology and new games don't even compare to the stuff from 10-30 years ago.
SpFiota 2 years ago
dude u are one lucky bastard!!!nothing compares to the old stuff!have fun playing em!
inquestHELP 3 years ago 4
hiya, love your machine, you must be very happy with it. can i ask what version of mame wah are you using and where can you download the preview videos from
higgo60 3 years ago
thats one of the nicest mame cabinets ive ever seen. terrific job man
bigpete405 3 years ago
hey great job on the cab. what MAME version did you used for the cab? you should show how it also play the other emulatos.... but over all, Great Job. i cant wait to start my project to build my own.
sgtmaury 3 years ago
whats the program called for playing the arcade games on that machine
linkjet20 3 years ago
MAME
holcomb2012 3 years ago
Great Cab, is it custom built or did you use some sort of plans? Thanks.
kl0wn 3 years ago
How did you hide XP logon, logoff and explorer shell ?!
Could you tell me where i can pick a tutorial, a guide or just some infos to do this!?
MANYTHANKS!!!
AndyBF03 3 years ago
How did you get the UI to play video previews like that?
GaNgStAMP203 3 years ago
That's pretty simple... just download what are called "preview videos" and point the mamewah ini file to that folder for the "snap" folder.
leifashley27 3 years ago
By the way, awesome cab! enjoy it!
MoonOvIce 3 years ago
I got mame 0.128 (MAMEUI) and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 isn't working at all (Yes, I have the parent rom which is original Mortal Kombat 3), it was working on 0.127u1 which I was using before, actually I still have a copy of it and it plays perfectly, but doesn't appear on any of the 3 0.128 versions at all! when I type on the search bar and find it, I double click and it tells me I'm missing a bunch of files, what happened? has UMK3 been broken now? does anybody have this problem with this game?
MoonOvIce 3 years ago
I believe there was a change to the umk3 files... sound like you need to update your roms.
leifashley27 3 years ago
Thanks for taking the time to show us around and post your setup spec. I'm just gettin started so it's cool to see what people have running.
Adeptzed 3 years ago
Is there anyway to make my computer just come on with mame, using a interface like yours, without loading windows and not building a cabinet?
SolidRockFellowship 3 years ago
still need help with that?
DetroitBankhead 3 years ago
Look for a program called "instant sheller" it's on the gameEX website. This will load up windows in the background and "shell" into a program (mamewah, mala, etc). Pretty easy to use.
leifashley27 3 years ago
Man, Excellent work... I want one!
You say it took 2 years? was that sourcing parts or just getting it to work?
funkr77 3 years ago
The cabinet took about 3 weekends to get right. The bulk of the build went into the configuration and the control panel. It's one of those projects that now doing one, I could knock out in a weekend but spread over 2 years or configuring, building, designing, etc, etc, and then getting married and moving in the middle.
Plus the biggest mistake you can get is to make it "playable but not finished." I think I got to that point and played it for 3 months without any further building.
leifashley27 3 years ago
really awesome!
uhlobaron 3 years ago
nice cab!! what do you think is the best mame to download?? i have mame0126b and mame32++, one plays some roms and the other one plays other roms, i need a mame that would work all roms, so i can use mamewah, please help
neilaxcx 3 years ago
The best one to use is always the latest but some versions run some games better than others. You can play scud race on 119 pretty well but not on 126. 126u2 has the best dkong though. Just depends on what you're wanting to play. For 95% of the people out there, the latest should be the best build.
leifashley27 3 years ago
getting the games to work is the easy u can downlad mame to your pc now and runn tons and tons of game but rigging it up to your arcade machine u need a jammer one and then u need a j pack simply plug it in and sound leads.
what the hard work is is restoring the cab buttons , installing a trackerball etc, but u can get a basic 6 button jamma machine, then get your self a j pack and a old pc hey u have a mame machine
baddemonic 3 years ago
That's just magnificent, it really is. By far the best cab I have seen. Wish I was more technically minded to set one up. I'll stick to my PC for now.
peacocke 3 years ago
Thats crazy......how did you get all of those roms though????????????/
flytai45 3 years ago
u r an inspiration....lol thanks for d vid.
rickyaguilera 3 years ago
Thank you man! I look forward to 1) redoing this one, and 2) building another one for my brother... I'll post vids of each as those projects progress.
leifashley27 3 years ago
HI NICE WORK!! Can you please tell me how to do that,, Ive been trying to get the front end to work but seem i cant figure it out, pls send me where you download it,,,^__^
joepld 3 years ago
You can use MALA,easier to use but less customizable than Mamewah.
Anyway,you build up a nice cab dude,now you just have to enjoy it :D
ultrakupra 3 years ago
thank you I did it! but now im still waiting for my 16.75gb rom files to be completed in the torrents. ^__^
joepld 3 years ago