My first arcade conversion, an old Zaxxon cab gutted and cleaned up, Added mamewah for front end also a roller ball and spinner, plays all the emu’s and DDR (Dance Dance Revolution, also added a JP rider Motorcycle by saga to it..A great project that I’m always adding new things too..
Hello and welcome to my arcade machine restoration project. I have an old Zaxxon game machine that I have updated to play thousands of games 90,000 games and counting, it runs MAME, PINMAME, and the older consoles game units like Nes, super nes, nes 64, and genisis.
I bought a few things off ebay for my cab this week should be here soon.. I bought 2 dance pads for my dance dance revolution software and two light guns.
People have been asking about the inside of the arcade cab. what does it look like what kind of computer I have and the size of the hard drive and so on,
so first I have 2 80 gig drives 527 megs of ram.
i have an i-pac for the keybopard encoder and waiting for the a-pac this will let me interface my JP rider to the cab. will post some pictures of the inside.
right now the computer is in a case and in the cab I’m thinking of taking the motherboard out and mounting it in side but I’m unsure.
I have also seen people use cat 5 cable to interface there controlls with the i-pac, doing it this way they can make there control panel swappable.
also I get allot of people asking me were did I get my roms,
well I wont give addresses. there are lot of places that are free, there are torrent sites and of course the way I went was buying online, allot of people get mad at that but i didn’t want to download chomd files and roms files it would take me months over 40 gigs of roms, so I bought the DVD’s its small price under 30 dollars and you get 10 DVDS full of roms.
I was happy with the person I bought my rom files from so i bought all the N64, Sega, Nintendo and super Nintendo DVD’s from him too.
again I wont email people the sites do a Google search to find roms.
David,
I like your setup. I’ve used 3DArcade for years, but it’s actually quite outside the main stream. Not sure why, because I think it’s great.
Anyway, I have a scratch built MAME machine myself, and I pride myself on my game count and emulated system count, but I think you’re the first person I’ve come across who has over 100,000 roms on his system. I have over 30,000 and I thought that was pretty impressive. But my 30,000 take up almost 400 Gig and your 100,000 take up 160 Gig. So my curiosity is getting the best of me, do you have huge computer romsets or what? Like C64, Apple IIe, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, etc? Those sets add up fast. Just curious.
By the way, I didn’t watch the your whole video, do you have a video jukebox on your machine? That’s an easy one to do and a nice addition to any cab… Media Player Classic (no association with Microsoft) takes command-line input and wildcards. So you can dump all your videos into a folder, and the command-line you launch with 3DA would look something like “C:\MPC\mpc.exe c:\videos\*.mpg”. It will then just play through your list alphabetically, but you can skip around or shuffle too.
Take it easy.
I think its a guess about game count,
here is a list of emus.
Mame ever game and chds
Pinball.
sega all system,
nintedo all systems and every American game
dreamcast. every American game
ps1 every game.
some computer games.
ddr
frets on fire.
3d0
neogeo
turbo-grafx 16
DALPHNEL
the old systems
commadore 64
amiga
manttel intellivion
coleco
atari 2600, 5200, 7800
Im sure there is more.
I want to do the video jukebox and music jukebox but maybe a dedicated jukebox.
thanks for the interest..
Hi there
You got a great set up. Love the machine!! I have a question though. I saw you were able to put quarters into the machine. What interface would I need to enable that? To make it more arcade like and feel. So it will end when they die or when their time is up. And when they enter the quarter how do they select the game? I am new to this. Sorry for the noob questions.
Ty.
John