Hi,
I’ve just been given an empty arcade cabinet shell. My plan is to rebuild it, probably start with an old CRT TV, a usb interfaced control panel and a Raspberry Pi running MAME but may look further and allow real arcade boards too in the future.
My question is, would this be a project suitable for the Hackerspace? I’m sure I could work in a mate’s garage but working in a social place sounds more fun!
John
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I personally have no problem with the proposed Mame build…however
it comes with some caveats!
The Mame cabinet must be built in a reasonable period of time and not
stored at the space until forever - Ahem…Paul Plowman!
John takes it home once complete…
John has a good time using the space and getting to know all of us!
I’ve just been given an empty arcade cabinet shell. My plan is to rebuild
it, probably start with an old CRT TV, a usb interfaced control panel and a
Raspberry Pi running MAME but may look further and allow real arcade boards
too in the future.
My question is, would this be a project suitable for the Hackerspace? I’m
sure I could work in a mate’s garage but working in a social place sounds
more fun!
“If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” — William Morris
Hi,
I’ve just been given an empty arcade cabinet shell. My plan is to rebuild it, probably start with an old CRT TV
Would it not be easer to use a large flat pannel VDU, or CRT VDU?
“If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have
nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be
beautiful.” — William Morris
and a Raspberry Pi running MAME but may look further
A Pi may work; is there an easy way to use MAME on the Pi? or would an old
computer work better?
and allow real arcade boards too in the future.
My question is, would this be a project suitable for the Hackerspace? I’m
sure I could work in a mate’s garage but working in a social place sounds
more fun!
Hey all,
my employer is organising PHPNW in October and I was wondering if the space
still had an arcade cabinet or other games thing we can use/borrow?
I’ve just been given an empty arcade cabinet shell. My plan is to rebuild
it, probably start with an old CRT TV, a usb interfaced control panel and a
Raspberry Pi running MAME but may look further and allow real arcade boards
too in the future.
My question is, would this be a project suitable for the Hackerspace? I’m
sure I could work in a mate’s garage but working in a social place sounds
more fun!
Hey all,
my employer is organising PHPNW in October and I was wondering if the space still had an arcade cabinet or other games thing we can use/borrow?
I’ve just been given an empty arcade cabinet shell. My plan is to rebuild it, probably start with an old CRT TV, a usb interfaced control panel and a Raspberry Pi running MAME but may look further and allow real arcade boards too in the future.
My question is, would this be a project suitable for the Hackerspace? I’m sure I could work in a mate’s garage but working in a social place sounds more fun!
Rather than a full-on cabinet, what about a Raspberry Pi running emulators
controlled via wired USB Xbox360 controllers? This would play several
thousand arcade games via MAME (arcade emulator) plus countless thousand
more old computer games via emulators for Amiga, Commodore 64, Megadrive,
SNES, ZX Spectrum etc and permit some nostalgic two-player battles and thus
possibly knockout tournaments of e.g. Mortal Kombat or similar. You’d want
to have a nice big TV with an HDMI input available - and if it’s got a USB
port for thumb drives then you can power the Pi via that too.
I have such a thing you could borrow, ready tested and working - though I’m
in York not MCR. In fact at my work I gaffer-taped a Pi behind a kitchen
TV for exactly this purpose. Another possibility though is if you could
source a Raspberry Pi model B2 (<£30) plus a couple of borrowed USB wired
Xbox360 (or similar) controllers and a short HDMI cable and micro-USB
cable, or if HacMan could rustle up those between them, I could just post a
Micro-SD card in the post, or even just host an FTP image of the card to
download, and email some instructions etc.
Bob Stone
York HackspaceOn Monday, 24 August 2015 12:41:48 UTC+1, vreemt wrote:
Hey all,
my employer is organising PHPNW in October and I was wondering if the
space still had an arcade cabinet or other games thing we can use/borrow?