If you thought I was done with the MAME cabinet you’d be wrong, just like me. After the power went out one day the computer wouldn’t boot up. It said it was missing a system file in Windows. I reinstalled Windows 2000 and it ran until the power went out again. I’m not sure if [...]

The challenge: Goz bet Brad and I that we couldn’t get the MAME machine running by midnight Tuesday. On Saturday, after K-dog’s party and a well needed nap, we headed to Lowe’s for some hardware. The arcade monitor and controls came out really easy. However, the wooden frame that the monitor was attached to was [...]

Well I ordered the X-Arcade last weekend and it’s here already! I put pictures of it in the photo gallery. Unfortunately, some of the emulators I was using would not let you remap the exit key Alt-F4. There are a couple workarounds I could try. The X-Arcade allows custom configurations that I could map to [...]

Once I got the first couple of emulators working, it became so easy I went a little nuts adding more emulators. I have the following emulators working through Game Launcher:

MAME - Arcade Games

Atari800Win - Atari 800

NNNesterJ - Nintendo

Gens - Sega Genesis

ZSNES - Super Nintendo

Z26 - Atari 2600
So far I’ve been using my Sidewinder game pad [...]

I installed Windows 2000 and that fixed all of my sound card and game pad issues. I spent last night getting an NES emulator running. I had tried FCE Ultra last week but was not impressed with its performance. This time I tried RockNESX. It performed really well but when you hit ESC it wouldn’t [...]

Preliminary pictures of the MAME cabinet are up in the Photo Gallery.
My MAME project has taken a turn of sorts. After a week of frustration I came to the conclusion that this project was supposed to be fun. Therefore I switched from Linux to Windows. I installed Windows XP and downloaded the Windows command line [...]

I decided to start a new topic on Bitsmack so that I could discuss my MAME Cabinet project. This way you can enjoy all my misfortunes and all my triumphs. You eat who I eat. As I mentioned before, I bought a Raiden arcade machine back in March with the intention of putting a PC [...]