Hayo

Tuesday, 8th March 2005 at 6:25PM

All i can stutter at the moment is .. m..mm...mm...movie!

Arie

Tuesday, 8th March 2005 at 10:58PM

Yeah, Jez vs. d. Best of three.

Mathew Hoy

Tuesday, 8th March 2005 at 11:38PM

yesyes, a video please? you should create a "recently played" sidebar item like people do with itunes so that we can keep track of the games you're playing on the unit.

also, you should make a tool that counts the number of times that you play each game. :)

scott a.

Wednesday, 9th March 2005 at 7:44AM

fuck that. :p

webcam!

Jez

Wednesday, 9th March 2005 at 11:20AM

I'm currently working on reverse engineering the score database for MacMAME so that I can make a script that automatically posts the high scores for all the games. After that i need to work out how to figure out which games are played most, etc.

val

Wednesday, 9th March 2005 at 1:58PM

dude, that kicks some serious ass.

SFII kicks ass, too.

terry

Friday, 11th March 2005 at 8:51AM

I too know the glory of SFII on mame, Rainbow version happens to be my favorite at the minute. Sweet rig mate :)

Alexis Gallisá

Monday, 14th March 2005 at 2:18PM

Congrats on getting this all done. This has been a really nice project to follow (especially since it was a MacMAME cabinet).

Sherwin

Wednesday, 16th March 2005 at 1:38PM

Can you please post a quick howto for those clueless? I'd love to have something classy like that in my room. I can figure the cabinet design out, but how do you wire the joystick and buttons to control the computer?

Duncan

Wednesday, 16th March 2005 at 1:56PM

AWESOME!

macmame guy

Wednesday, 16th March 2005 at 2:45PM

Howdee-
Nice Rig...

You can get away with way less of a Mac if you run Mame .58 under OS 9. The ATI Rage 128 driver (if you have one of the many many older macs with a Rage 128) puts a nice old skool fuzz on on the images. The OSX version of MAME with the Open GL video take a very serious system. You could sell that dual G4 and buy a bunch of Blue and White G3s that will run an older MAME as well or better.

For those interested in getting into this, check out http://www.arcadecontrols.com

A good way to get the controls wired in via USB:
http://www.ultimarc.com/

smile...

Jez

Wednesday, 16th March 2005 at 2:49PM

Of course I could get away with using a lesser Mac, but where's the fun in that :)

I have many old Macs lying around and wanted to put this one to good use.

I'm currently working on a script to reverse engineer the MacMAME score database so I can make it upload stats every hour or so.

extra_rice

Wednesday, 16th March 2005 at 2:53PM

i can only drool so much dude... nice!

Alan

Wednesday, 16th March 2005 at 3:18PM

Sherwin:
"Can you please post a quick howto for those clueless? I'd love to have something classy like that in my room. I can figure the cabinet design out, but how do you wire the joystick and buttons to control the computer?"

You can either browse the site, scavenging for pieces that make up the tutorial, or you can wait for this:

"[From the January 10, 2005 post] Once everything is finished i'm going to setup an area on this site that will document everything related to the cabinet including a list of parts that I bought over the last 12 months and costs of the different parts."

By the way, this is one of the coolest projects I've seen in a long time. Keep up the good work!

herunterschalten

Wednesday, 16th March 2005 at 3:56PM

i was wondering where you got your ROMS, i'm finding a couple packs on bittorrent, but not too much, any goldmines?

Pablo

Wednesday, 16th March 2005 at 4:15PM

Roms are not generally distributed on the net anymore...you need to go to:

http://www.freemameroms.com/

Order a set...only pay for the cost of blank DVDs

MetaHipster

Thursday, 17th March 2005 at 2:15AM

More photos of the cabinet (profile, wide shot) would be nice. I'm definitely planning to build one myself (have an old Dual celeron kicking around with 19" CRT that's now obsolete thanks to my 23" LCD :).

One suggestion for you (and others) which I'm also planning to do is make your MAME machine not only a game box but a file server and/or router - kill two birds with one stone!

And for those of you budget-crunched people, you can buy old x86 hardware for dirt cheap (and get a very basic MAME OS and/or Linux up & running on it to avoid the shame of letting Windows run in your household :)

Sherwin: macmameGuy hit the nail on the head above - those two sites are definitely the place to get started in terms of seeing how other people built their cabs, finding access to parts & How-To's, etc. etc.

Terere

Thursday, 17th March 2005 at 7:24AM

Nice, I will try to bulid one for myseflt too, also I will add Virtual PS....

kaato

Sunday, 20th March 2005 at 3:00AM

Very interesting project. Might have to buy some used cabinet from ebay after all and try this too ;)

SonicBoom

Monday, 21st March 2005 at 12:45PM

Very nice project! I can't wait for the setup docs, keep up the good work!

Graham

Thursday, 24th March 2005 at 9:13AM

I'm impressed at the sheer volume of time and patient energy that the Grasshopper has put into this. Softly, softly ... build a giant. Good one, Jez. You rool :- )