Right so no where near an arcade collector status as I don't have the room or the money to be up there with the rest, but a lot of work and time has been put into this little collection from building stuff to working out things like getting the Patrol lights interfaced with mame in my Dedi-mame'd Chase HQ cab.
Out of my massive collection of 8 cabs 6 of them are emulation based which isn't all bad as i'm able to play different types of games on a handful of cabs such as Driving games on a driving cab, motorbike games and others that use handlebars on a cab with... well.... handlebars
, and joystick/trackball games on my main mame cab... so here we go.... loads of pics of a handful of machines, some pictures before I started work on them and some when they were finished running various games....
In order of getting them we start with my Electrocoin Xenon cab which I Mame'd in 2001, just an empty cab when I got it no monitor etc. It's had 2 different systems installed over the last 9 years and currently has a 2ghz P4 running XP with a 26" Sony Trinitron TV.
After that I got a 19" Silverline Jamma Cab that now belongs to Mini
Then I got an old empty Cruisin' USA upright that was in a bit of a state when I got it but I can't find any pictures of it from then so here's a few recent ones.
It runs PC games like Crazy Taxi, Italian Job, Outrun 2006 etc. as Well as Mame and Model2 emulator games.
2.6GHZ P4 , 26" TV tube (mounted in a an old Hanty frame) and a Microsoft Dual-Strike hack and keyboard hack for the control interface.
All games run great and are fun to play.
Then I got an Old Radikal Bikers cab that also had seen better days!!, some wood working was needed on the front and the hanty monitor had a small scratch on it
. The monitor was replaced with a 28" TV tube into the old Hanty Frame and I've got a 3ghz P4 in there wired to a gameport hack and keyboard hack for the controls, after repairing the great big hole in the plastic moulding on the handlebars I also added two buttons for changing gears etc and delivering papers in paperboy!!.
It runs mame, model2 emulator and once again PC games
That small scratch
To be continued.....
(in a minute or 2 so I don't mess up my post
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retromax2010-07-11 23:43:00
Out of my massive collection of 8 cabs 6 of them are emulation based which isn't all bad as i'm able to play different types of games on a handful of cabs such as Driving games on a driving cab, motorbike games and others that use handlebars on a cab with... well.... handlebars
In order of getting them we start with my Electrocoin Xenon cab which I Mame'd in 2001, just an empty cab when I got it no monitor etc. It's had 2 different systems installed over the last 9 years and currently has a 2ghz P4 running XP with a 26" Sony Trinitron TV.
After that I got a 19" Silverline Jamma Cab that now belongs to Mini
Then I got an old empty Cruisin' USA upright that was in a bit of a state when I got it but I can't find any pictures of it from then so here's a few recent ones.
It runs PC games like Crazy Taxi, Italian Job, Outrun 2006 etc. as Well as Mame and Model2 emulator games.
2.6GHZ P4 , 26" TV tube (mounted in a an old Hanty frame) and a Microsoft Dual-Strike hack and keyboard hack for the control interface.
All games run great and are fun to play.
Then I got an Old Radikal Bikers cab that also had seen better days!!, some wood working was needed on the front and the hanty monitor had a small scratch on it
It runs mame, model2 emulator and once again PC games
That small scratch
To be continued.....
(in a minute or 2 so I don't mess up my post
retromax2010-07-11 23:43:00
