I am a man of a ton of interests. Maybe some of you noticed or so, but I ask a lot of questions. I like to try out a lot of things. Too many things I've tried to list, I have a ton of interests, more so than most people. I like new things! So a good buddy of mine (Heran Bago lol) tells me he's making an Arcade Cabinet. After talking to him about it, I want to do one of these things too!
I don't have an ideal look for it in mind yet, but I know what I want basically. To be honest I think acquiring or creating the cabinet from scratch will be the most difficult part of this entire thing for me. For all my friends we're going to want to put together a four-player control panel. Each Player gets a Joystick and six buttons. Heran showed me some little gizmo called the I-PAC which you wire the sticks and buttons to, which connects via USB into the computer. Seems pretty simple actually, even to me. I was just going to use a TV with S-Video input and some old computer speakers for audio and video. As far as the machine powering the thing...I decided on a setup.
I'm going to want this cabinet to run a lot of different games from a variety of platforms. While it'd mostly be MAME on this thing of course, I'd put SNES and Genesis stuff on here too. On an Arcade Cabinet I'm sure some games would work. Some would be kinda awkward, but they'd work. But I also want this to run more powerful systems/future PC games so I need a strong machine. I don't have the funds to make another good gaming machine with this, so I'm taking a shortcut and using the powerful laptop I have now. Just plug the video and speakers in when I intend to use the thing. As I type this, I'm downloading a Dreamcast ISO to test how well Dreamcast emulation has come around. If this works properly...Marvel vs Capcom 2 on a cabinet. Hell yes. Another interesting prospect is with this running through my PC, I could get Street Fighter IV (The PC version) running through this. That'd be absolute greatness and you'd be lying if you think it isn't.
Obviously this is gonna cost me a bit of money, and it won't be done anytime soon at all. But it's a project me and a few friends think will be really fun to do, and in the long run we'd play this thing to death! I hope I can at least get started on planning for this shortly. Thanks Heran Bago for the idea! You guys should check out his machine in progress, he's doing pretty good I think.
I don't have an ideal look for it in mind yet, but I know what I want basically. To be honest I think acquiring or creating the cabinet from scratch will be the most difficult part of this entire thing for me. For all my friends we're going to want to put together a four-player control panel. Each Player gets a Joystick and six buttons. Heran showed me some little gizmo called the I-PAC which you wire the sticks and buttons to, which connects via USB into the computer. Seems pretty simple actually, even to me. I was just going to use a TV with S-Video input and some old computer speakers for audio and video. As far as the machine powering the thing...I decided on a setup.
I'm going to want this cabinet to run a lot of different games from a variety of platforms. While it'd mostly be MAME on this thing of course, I'd put SNES and Genesis stuff on here too. On an Arcade Cabinet I'm sure some games would work. Some would be kinda awkward, but they'd work. But I also want this to run more powerful systems/future PC games so I need a strong machine. I don't have the funds to make another good gaming machine with this, so I'm taking a shortcut and using the powerful laptop I have now. Just plug the video and speakers in when I intend to use the thing. As I type this, I'm downloading a Dreamcast ISO to test how well Dreamcast emulation has come around. If this works properly...Marvel vs Capcom 2 on a cabinet. Hell yes. Another interesting prospect is with this running through my PC, I could get Street Fighter IV (The PC version) running through this. That'd be absolute greatness and you'd be lying if you think it isn't.
Obviously this is gonna cost me a bit of money, and it won't be done anytime soon at all. But it's a project me and a few friends think will be really fun to do, and in the long run we'd play this thing to death! I hope I can at least get started on planning for this shortly. Thanks Heran Bago for the idea! You guys should check out his machine in progress, he's doing pretty good I think.
