So as promised in my MAME machine build log submitted the day before this post, I have a pretty big announcement. Today I picked up my first pinball machine, a Gottlieb Super Mario Bros.
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Category: Arcade
MAME Cabinet Conversion
I never did a write up on this and just now I’m really wondering why. A couple of years ago I built a MAME cabinet — well rather I took an existing arcade cabinet and stuffed a PC inside of it.
For those that don’t know, MAME stands for Muliple Arcade Machine Emulator. The basic premise of MAME is to act as an emulator for, you guessed it, arcade machines. We’re talking Donkey Kong, Metal Slug, Centipede, you name it! Now this is all well and good playing it on your standard TV, but some people need a bit more physical feedback. There’s huge communities out there dedicated to either converting old arcade cabinets or building their own cabinets to put a PC inside of. There’s four basic but crucial parts to a MAME cabinet:
- The cabinet itself
- Controls
- PC for running MAME
- Display / sound