I bought a pole position machine with mame. It didn't boot up fully but just needed a new coin cell battery for the CMOS of the pc. The pc is a Dell pentium 133mhz with 32 Meg memory, 4 gig hard drive. I don't have a break pedal. Sometimes the gas pedal stops working, then I need to reboot. Do you have that problem?
All my outrun never allows me to pass the first marker... I always loose! I never played outrun before so maybe I don't play it correctly. Any hints?
easy, the steering wheel is an encoder, using a ball mouse their is 3 encoders x, y, and scroll wheel so you just replace the encoders in the mouse into wires that then hook up to the encoder of the steering, gas, and brake
awesome!! I got the idea to build a mame machine... a bit different from this... but really close...
but I did not like the idea of booting to windows then opening the mame emulator... so I figured installing dos and having it bootup mame automatically would be the way to do it to make it feel more seamless... I youtubed it... and found this! awesome!!
another idea I had was to wire the coin machine to the enter key of the keyboard, so that when you put a coin in it, it hits enter...
Man this is a GREAT idea, you could play all the arcade games on it aswell. Wouldn't the windows MAME be faster as it can use direct draw and take full advantage of the computer? I'm not all that familiar with DOS, but batch files, I use them, I can do almost anything with them.
@CoolDudeClem I think for the age of the games this cab is running, this is more than adequate. A nicer DOS frontend might be better than batch files though.
I intended on using Game Launcher but this mobo just didn't like it. It only seemed to run anything nicely after sitting in DOS with nothing running for a couple moments.
Does this unit play Outrun as well? Also how did you hack the mouse to run on the steering wheel and pedal, the steering wheel from memory was some sort of opto switches. Nice work.
Very nice! my game room needs a driving game so bad. Ive got 2 pinballs now, another one or two coming in the next 2 weeks. A half done deal for a 13' bowler. cant wait till its finished. Screw PS# and Xbox, home gameroom full of classics is where its at
DOS MAME v0.56, read full details in the "About This Video" section. The menu you see in the video is nothing but a batch file in DOS I created. If you'd like a front end I suggest you look into EmuLoader.
I bought a pole position machine with mame. It didn't boot up fully but just needed a new coin cell battery for the CMOS of the pc. The pc is a Dell pentium 133mhz with 32 Meg memory, 4 gig hard drive. I don't have a break pedal. Sometimes the gas pedal stops working, then I need to reboot. Do you have that problem?
All my outrun never allows me to pass the first marker... I always loose! I never played outrun before so maybe I don't play it correctly. Any hints?
Thank you for the video.
ddurkee0 8 months ago
Do you have a website, blog, or instructions detailing how you made the original controls work in mame? It would help me greatly.
hitymzz 2 years ago
@hitymzz Yeah, under Home Arcade Projects.
InsaneDavid 1 year ago
Nice!..I've just done a similar project with Chase HQ check out my video's
retromamez 2 years ago
How do you convert a mouse to a steering wheel?
cgratton 2 years ago
easy, the steering wheel is an encoder, using a ball mouse their is 3 encoders x, y, and scroll wheel so you just replace the encoders in the mouse into wires that then hook up to the encoder of the steering, gas, and brake
jwnordquist1 1 year ago
awesome!! I got the idea to build a mame machine... a bit different from this... but really close...
but I did not like the idea of booting to windows then opening the mame emulator... so I figured installing dos and having it bootup mame automatically would be the way to do it to make it feel more seamless... I youtubed it... and found this! awesome!!
another idea I had was to wire the coin machine to the enter key of the keyboard, so that when you put a coin in it, it hits enter...
TreyRust 2 years ago
Man this is a GREAT idea, you could play all the arcade games on it aswell. Wouldn't the windows MAME be faster as it can use direct draw and take full advantage of the computer? I'm not all that familiar with DOS, but batch files, I use them, I can do almost anything with them.
CoolDudeClem 2 years ago
@CoolDudeClem I think for the age of the games this cab is running, this is more than adequate. A nicer DOS frontend might be better than batch files though.
RetroRepair 2 years ago
I intended on using Game Launcher but this mobo just didn't like it. It only seemed to run anything nicely after sitting in DOS with nothing running for a couple moments.
InsaneDavid 2 years ago
Hi david,
Does this unit play Outrun as well? Also how did you hack the mouse to run on the steering wheel and pedal, the steering wheel from memory was some sort of opto switches. Nice work.
Brett
brettv8 2 years ago
Were did you get the boot screen
Robobbly 3 years ago
Look around online for a MAME splash screen for Windows98. I can't remember where I got it but that's how I found it.
InsaneDavid 2 years ago
i have one
jwnordquist1 1 year ago
Very nice! my game room needs a driving game so bad. Ive got 2 pinballs now, another one or two coming in the next 2 weeks. A half done deal for a 13' bowler. cant wait till its finished. Screw PS# and Xbox, home gameroom full of classics is where its at
88crxhfb18 3 years ago
im sorry wehat mame are you runing because i have mi machine and i want that mame whit star menu because a have mamefx end it looks cheap
racso919 4 years ago
DOS MAME v0.56, read full details in the "About This Video" section. The menu you see in the video is nothing but a batch file in DOS I created. If you'd like a front end I suggest you look into EmuLoader.
InsaneDavid 4 years ago
GREAT WORK, MAN!! GREAT MACHINE!!
INNUENDU 4 years ago
Thanks! Still having a blast with it, I'll post some new videos soon.
InsaneDavid 4 years ago
Nice. I want to see your next video. Let me know, please!! :)
INNUENDU 4 years ago