My home-made arcade cabinet (boot up)

This is a video of my home-made arcade cabinet booting up. The quality is terribly, as it was shot several years ago with my Sony Mavica CD-1000 photo camera -- not an ideal machine for shooting video. This shows the boot-up sequence and launch of the custom menu program I wrote for the cabinet.

Cabinet Specs:
Windows 2000 SP4
AMD Athlon 850MHz processor
Turtle Beach Montego II sound card
Toshiba 22" tube television mounted directly into wooden bracers
Happ control competition sticks in a self-designed 7-button layout (works with traditional 4-button Neo-Geo and 6-button CAPCOM)
Car stereo speakers
Sony stereo system driving the speakers
Custom MAME build optimized for Athlon

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• home
• made
• arcade
• cabinet
• mame

[mkpeeters]

use Linux...More resources=higher quality games!!!

[dsobodash]

Actually, they run about 50% slower on MAME Linux because its video drivers suck for the video card in this machine. But I built this 6 years ago anyway ...

[ShadowriverUB]

XMame works quite nice now ^^ i don't see any diffrance between windows mame and linux mame ;p

[dsobodash]

That's nice. Now run it on a slow computer with crappy hardware you had leftover in a closet. You will see a difference.

[compamac]

why win 200 or just an old pc

[lilryanps3]

Windows 2000....lol

[Mathijsweb]

I hope mine doesn't rattle that much

[chaosmutt]

slooooow boot! i have a 2.6ghz in mine that boots in 13seconds

[macrofeet]

tips: look up loading frontend as the windows shell so that the start menu never appears,

a program caled bootskin can change your windows loading screen to a mame loading screen, check out game ex as a front end for mame

[matthewpatane]

recommend u use mamewah with windows xp

but hav the bare minimum of windows xp, just 2 allow the comp to run faster

thats wat i hav mine running on and it is fkin awsome

[prowfsx]

turn the lights on can't see a thing hardly

[sinistermoon]

Cool!