64-bit MAME Arcade Cabinet with 4 Player Control Panel (watch in HD!)

Cabinet:
Slik Stik (now defunct?) cabinet with four 8-way joysticks and 7 buttons each. The trackball and spinner are recognized by the OS as additional mice/mouses. The black joystick is a dedicated 4-way to play early 80's games the way they were meant to... although it's a little out of the way.

Audio/Visual:
The display is a real arcade 27" multi-sync by Wells Gardner (D9400). Audio is piped through a bass unit inside the cab and two cheap but great Sony Xplod SX-R1311 5 1/4" 160 watt speakers just underneath the marquee.

Computer:
Everything's driven by an Intel Core2Duo E6300 overclocked to 2.45ghz paired with an ATI x700. By late 2008, you can get this combo with mobo and accessories for $250 or less. If you only want to run MAME, you can get by with just a little more than enough RAM to boot your OS. It doesn't need much. This one has just a couple of gb so some of the other emulators and media apps can run a little better.

OS / Software:
MAME v0.127 with some of the popular patches like high score, and no nag startups, were compiled 64-bit and ran on Windows XP x64. This gives a pretty consistent boost in performance in MAME. I originally tried to run Vista x64 instead but I'm running Soft15Khz (please donate to sailorsat!) to drive the monitor at old arcade resolutions and 15khz refresh. It replaces the need to have a vga to jamma video or arcadevga video card. Unfortunately as of this writing, soft15khz does not work in 64-bit vista.

The front end is MALA with MAME, Atari 2600, Nintendo NES, Super Nintendo, Sega Master System, Genesis, and Sega 32X for emulators. I won't go into each of the emulators but they're essentially the popular ones ppl are running. Stella for 2600, Nulldc for dreamcast, etc. Video and photo snaps are from emumovies dot com

Check out my mini-arcade cabinet via an iCade, iPad, and MAME at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeaNsS0ORQQ

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[swiv2d]

is it possible to use the front end on windows

[amiga2000]

@swiv2d If you mean the mame windows front end, sure. It's just not so great.

[swiv2d]

@amiga2000 yeah i'd agree but is mame the only one available for windows?

[amiga2000]

@swiv2d The only "one"? There are other arcade emulators. Ones specifically for diff systems but MAME is the one that gets updated regularly.

[neoxius]

oh dude!, where did you get that videosnaps! can you tell me where can i get them?

[amiga2000]

@neoxius Right in the video description my friend.

[amiga2000]

@maiki60fps Yeah, if one was serious, wouldn't you even stay away emulation software altogether? 

[666jamie666]

Nice cab and all but you really could have improved this video buy talking about your cab and giving us all some info about it rather than just go through your games list, anyone can download mame and all its content.

[ryangames9000]

what software are u useing?

[Bonznumber1]

i't like to ask what 4 player game uses 7 buttons? player 3 and 4 on most panels have buttons cause there are o 4 player games with more than buttons unless you found one i never heard of

[oOoK3DoOo]

@amiga2000 Hey, just asking were can you get one or make one. I would like one so I can play carnevil :3. Also I just wanna play the old games

[SirJazz]

btw. you dont have "ninja baseball batman" :)))) best arcade game

[SirJazz]

how much did it cost. can you built me one.