Afternoon all
I’m a tiny bit excited at the moment as I’ve just dragged a Golden Tee Fore! arcade machine into my spare room, and the wife knows! This will hopefully be the realisation of a little dream I’ve had for years which is to build a MAME arcade cabinet, both my kids are now well into all things gaming so I’m sort having one of those father son moments in my head where we build this together, sad I know but that’s the plan
So I’m wondering does anyone have any experience with converting these? It’s a fully working Jamma, Golden Tee Fore! setup with a Hantarex POLO 25 screen or at least that’s all I can see name wise so far for the screen, first question is there’s a video card on the board that is marked as an incredible technologies card, but from looking on their site it would seem to be a voodoo 3 video card, I’m assuming this is capable of running at 15Khz which is what again I assume the screen runs at, still looking around for info on it all so any help would be appreciated, I’m happy chopping cables and making leads etc just hoping to reuse as much as possible of the original cabinet and would definitely want to use the screen.
Plan is to just use an old pc I have and run MAME with a front end for now until I get a bit more clued up on the emulation scene, ideally I’d like to run all the emus SNES, Neo, Amiga etc everything I can find but no rush for me to get that far, a game of Bubble Bobble or Shinobi will do me!
Other questions would be a brand of Joysticks and buttons to buy for the new console I will have to make, am I better off paying good money or are the cheaper versions just as good? And how many buttons do people go for? Is 4 each enough for most games??
Basically any help or advise is welcome, thanks for looking, got some pics of the inside to post but can’t do that from the office so will get them up tonight.
Cheers
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