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MAME 32 Arcade Emulator. A friend came round at the weekend with his PC, and on it he had this proggy, MAME32, along with hundreds of old Arcade ROMs.

I have a 700MHz P3 with Geforce MX440, and some of the games died a death on it, his is about 1.5GHz, and they all work fine on it, to give you an idea of what sort of speed PC you'll need to use them.

But I tell you, it's been great going through some old arcade classics - Paperboy, Mortal Kombat 2, Rampage, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pole Position(!), Killer Instinct, Arkanoid, Hang On, Outrun, Shinobi. the list goes on.

I believe they make arcade cabinets designed specifically to hold your PC. So you could have an unlimited amount of old arcade classics in your living room, via your PC, and perhaps it could double as a sound system. An idea anyway.

Don't know where he got the software itself, but I'm sure if you're interested, you could find it easily enough on the Web.

Retro Gaming at it's finest

Picked it up from a warehouse in Bournemouth for nothing. Needed to borrow my dad's van though. It would cost a fortune to send those things.

I've been thinking about what I should put on my newly aquired webspace, and I might dedicate it to the creation of my cabinet.

I'll post the link back here once it's built.

how much did it cost to ship your cabinet? a packet I assume.

I've created my own arcade too.

I bought an old arcade cabinet with a broken monitor for £35 quid on ebay. It's a standard jamma cabinet (2 x 8 way joysticks and 3 buttons each - you know the ones).

Hooked up the controls to an 'i-pac' control interface (cost £20 I think). www.ultimarc.com sell them. This then lets you plug your arcade controls into a USB or PS/2 keyboard socket.

I also hooked up the electronic coin mechanism to the i-pac so that credits are given to the player when he inserts cash (1 credit for 20p, 7 for a pound etc).

I replaced the old dead monitor with a big (19 inch) Hantarex SVGA open frame SVGA monitor. This lets me play all the games without having to mess around with resolutions. This was the biggie cost wise - £200!

I also hacked some PC speakers for the amplifier which I hooked up to the arcade speakers for the sound.

Now I just connect my laptop to the monitor / i-pac / speakers, load up MAME 32, and I've got an authentic arcade machine that runs almost every arcade game produced in the 80s, 90s.

I've teaked the controls so that you can quit a game and selct another from the controls too.

If you want to get into this sort of thing, you should go to www.arcadecontrols.com

heh - been round there tonight and he's got an arcade cabinet, with brand new joystick module thingy on it (called something X), he has his PC and dreamcast in it, his keyboard and mouse are on a tray that pulls out.

it really does kick some ass.


been playing killer instinct, street fighter 2, paperboy, teenage mutant ninja turtles, chase HQ, the list goes on.

maybe I should get one.

I bought all mine at a computer fair - just had to download the emulator itself as the one supplied with the ROMs didn't work.

Ur... sounds like hard work to me. I'll just steal my brother's spectrum one day. He has quite a few games there, including Rambo I think.

I'm not sure if it's legal, my mate got all his off kazaa

These ROMS, are there any definitive sites to download from or are they constantly closing down/ changing?

Yeah, I'd be interested in purchasing a copy of all your ROMs off you.

You can never have enough retro stuff.

i'm all about MAME...
i've got over 3000 roms for it, it's a DVD and a CD's worth.

if anyone wants them, let me know and we'll sort it out privately :)

but yes, MAME is the pooches plums :)