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posted by admin @ 04/27/08:07:52:39
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| I've got the cabinets in storage right now. The Centipede Mini and the Capcom Bowl have joined me at my house, and the Golden Tee conversion went into storage. |
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Many, MANY new projects coming.
posted by admin @ 04/11/08:05:50:09
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I just worked out a deal on Burger Time Defender Donkey Kong Donkey Kong 3 Tunnel Hunt Centipede Mini Popeye Galaxian Shinobi (Pac-Man Conversion) Capcom Bowling (Galaxian Conversion) I'm really excited. Hardest part is going to be picking them up! Edit: changed number of cabs, made minor correction |
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Resistor Calculator
posted by admin @ 11/20/07:03:08:09
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http://www.pealefamily.net/tech/resistor/ Found on Bob Robert's site. |
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New Projects
posted by admin @ 05/13/07:02:30:54
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| Check the menu to the left. |
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Cap Trick
posted by admin @ 10/15/06:14:58:41
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| Made a little how-to about the cap trick. Find it here. |
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Changed site title
posted by admin @ 04/09/06:08:08:31
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| Since I've added actual arcade hardware to the projects, I've changed the name of the site from 'Mame Cabinet Projects' to 'Arcade Game Projects'. |
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New Project
posted by admin @ :02:49:42
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| Added Xenophobe to my list of projects. Unlike most of my other projects, this is actually shaping up quickly. Likely due to the fact that it's in the workshop that I have at my job. |
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old posts
posted by admin @ 11/24/04:15:34:42
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I've been reading the old posts, back when I just had *two* projects going on. I can't believe how much I've learned since I began these cabinets. I've got *real* arcade monitors. Two JAMMA cabinets. A Galaxian cabinet, and a Taito cabinet that aren't even mentioned. A ton of learned skills, like *soldering* and some basic electronics knowledge. I did a cap kit on an arcade monitor just the other day! I'm going to try and do better to make actual updates on this site, esp. since I notice that a lot of the dates are from 2003 and 2004 is almost done. Working on adding the Galaxian and Taito projects right now. |
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Williams Coin Issue
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| MameDev liked my patch! It was included a few versions ago. |
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posted by @ 07/27/04:17:12:53
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Updated the Williams coin slot issue for Mame .84u5 williams84u5.zip |
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posted by @ 07/20/04:14:18:52
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A user on the Arcade Controls Forums noted that Joust and other similar hardware Williams games had a strange behaviour. When you would put a coin into slot one (5) it would register one credit. When you would put it into the left slot (6) it would register *four* credits. Did some looking, turns out the driver is almost correct. It has the third coin slot in as the service button (the service menu is accessed by hitting [F2]) So I worked on it a bit. Couldn't figure out what it was doing, as I didn't realize that the proper button had already been entered, it was just labeled wrong. Carlos Santillan filled me in on what was happening, so I rearranged things a bit. Now, hitting: 5 (left slot) gives you one credit 6 (right slot) gives you one credit 7 (center slot) gives you four credits. I could have done it left-center-right, but I thought that would break more than just a few cabinets. But if someone wants to hook up their Williams cabinet to one of these style coin doors (mainly Defender cabinets, I believe) they can. Likely it was done before with doubling up on the left slot, but now at least it's accurate. Available here. Put into your ./src/drivers/ directory and compile as normal. |
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Site Changes
posted by @ 05/24/04:20:31:01
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| There are going to be some major changes to the site soon. It's grown so much in the last bit. I started with one project, and now there are five. I'll make a section of the site dedicated to each project. |
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posted by @ 05/04/04:13:51:58
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John St. Clair has released his book, Project Arcade. You can buy it @ Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.com. Here's some links! Project Arcade: Build Your Own Arcade Machine |
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posted by @ 10/11/03:19:57:22
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I actally had some updates before the whole site went down. I'll try to recap as best I can. I have a tutorial on how I refurbish a coin door. Find that right here. The painting is not going anywhere near as I expected. I have to get better primer. I've got to strip it back down, and paint again. I picked up an actual arcade monitor from a bloke over in New Hampshire. Works, slight burn. Thinking of using it in the Dynamo cabinet. That way I'll have an actual JAMMA cabinet. |
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posted by @ 03/19/03:23:19:08
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| Uploaded the PacMAME ROMs. Find them at this link. |
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posted by @ 03/14/03:16:25:00
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| VAntAGE ROMs are available on-site here. PacMAME ROMs to follow shortly. |
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posted by @ 01/20/03:14:22:00
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So much done, and not a bit of time to log it in. First, I picked up another cab, and some control panels! I've got parts galore to pick and choose from. All kinds of buttons and joysticks. Pictures when I get a second. Second, I made a new coin door insert. Find it here. Mega update, with pictures, when I get a second. |
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posted by @ 07/20/02:21:11:00
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I know, I know, it's been a while since my last update, but don't think for a second I haven't been busy. Picked up two cabinets: a Jungle King, and a game called 'D J Boy.' I never heard of that one, but you can find it at the Killer List Of Video Games Both cabs are gutted, the Jungle King heavily water damaged. I'm going to use that for the coin door, which is fully working, and scrap the rest. I got sick of not having the tools to work with and cut the wood I bought, so I decided to search for a cab, and came up with two. The best part is they were both free! I am still going to do the cocktail, but this will allow me to have a cab for side scrollers like Street Fighter or Side-Arms. |
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posted by @ 06/02/02:11:21:00
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Mini-Update, sort of. I've been playing with the emulator VAntAGE. It's quite cool, I've got it running the classics on a 486/66 with little problem. I couldn't find the ROMs for it, but found a way to convert the MAME ROMs to VAntAGE ROMs. Find them here. |
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posted by @ 05/19/02:15:02:00
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I've decided to re-review Advance MAME. There were certain technical aspects that I was not aware of, that after my first review I was made aware of. Find the review here. Tombstones has my profile up. Find it here. |
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posted by @ 04/20/02:20:13:00
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I've written a review of Advance Mame, another MAME port. Find it here. I'm now officially a Tombstones burner. They offer full MAME ROMsets to the public - for free (well, at cost). Find the site at tombstones.org.uk Yes, I managed to download all 3000+ MAME ROMs. What a trip that was. First it was downloading. Then it was checking them to make sure they were all okay (no, I didn't play them all, I used a ROM checker |
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posted by @ 02/19/02:15:17:00
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I just did a baaaaaad thing. Can I stress any more the importance of the work 'backup?' I was using the program clrmame which is supposed to check your ROMs and tell you what you're missing, what has changed since the last release, etc. I set it to go, and it kept coming up with bad ROMs. I don't know why, since I play them quite often, with no problems. So, I go to see what's happened, and MAME reports that I have no ROMs available! Oh no! I delete the ROMs - all 968 megs of them *sniff*. I get a couple off an FTP site I know of, and start MAME again. Nothing. Uh oh. Redownloading MAME again (I use the Windows version to test) I find the new ROMs where they should be. Something tells me I should have tried that first. Oh well, live and learn. |
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posted by @ 02/03/02:19:48:00
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| I'm pretty sure I've got the frontend worked out, mostly. The first version is here, it's a very simple script, using dialog (see previous entry). It will take me some time to type all the games I want into the list, but it's the simplest way I see, so far, as I'm no programmer, and I don't want to use X-Windows. |
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posted by @ 01/31/02:20:26:00
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| I think I've found what I'm going to use as the frontend. It's a program called Dialog, which makes pretty menus. Time will tell. The site has some nice screenshots. I've going to see what I can do, and I'll give it a shot. |
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posted by @ 01/21/02:18:54:00
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I've contacted several companies dealing with arcade games today. Most had nothing. A supplier in Keene stated that they had several dead games in stock. The woman I talked to stated she would speak to her husband regarding these. I'd really rather build from scratch, but for this (at least, this first one) I'd like a model to build off of. A broken unit is also almost sure to include the coin chute, which is one of the things I'm actually most hot for. |