Mame hyperspin arcade machine
As the switch is nothing more than a standard microswitch, it was really easy to simply connect this to the coin terminals on my ipac to allow for it to work in Mame. As the coin travels through the mechanism, it rolls past and pushes a metal bar which in turn is connected to switch that registers a credit.
On my Phoenix cabinet, the coin mechanism is all mechanical. This afternoon I’ve been working on the coin mechanism for my Mame arcade machine. Maybe a Barcade? RaspPicade? Cocktail cabinet? Driving cabinet? or something with Spinners or a Trackball?….but first, I need to open the garage door now as these lingering paint fumes are making everything look very trippy ? Thoughts now turn to another arcade project. That’s pretty much everything done on this cabinet now and its been great fun putting it all together. When everything was dry, I fitted the monitor back into the cab and also took the time to fix a little issue with one of the control panel latches that kept catching on one of the control button cables and disconnecting it. Two coats applied and between drying coats, respite from the rising heat and on to a few odd maintenance jobs on the veggie plot. I used automotive spray paint for this – nothing fancy, just the cheapest matt paint I could find as Gloss would have just bounced the light around and might have looked terrible especially through the glass bezel at the front of the cab. This mornings newspapers came in handy here….who needs the Financial sections on a Sunday anyway? Next was to paint the monitor surround (matt) black and also the monitor trim to match. I went with textured paint in the end which appears to match what was originally used. My first task was to give the coin doors and their surrounds a lick of hammerite paint after sanding off all the loose bits a few days ago. In the heat of summer, it can get awful hot in there with the doors closed. It’s perfect really as i’ve been meaning to get into the garage…sorry, i mean ‘Arcade Man Cave’, to finish off the last few jobs on my arcade cabinet for which I need to keep the garage door shut so that airborne stuff doesn’t blow in and stick to the drying paint. In contrast to the scorching hot summer days we’ve been having here lately, this morning got off to a cloudy start with temperatures only reaching the upper teens. Hmm, I thought I’d posted this entry last weekend?….obviously I didn’t press the thing that does the posting thing.
Here’s a quick looksee so far although apologises for the camera wobble….Amidar seemed the perfect game choice after all this painting ? Nothing that can easily be sorted out though. I’ve also noticed that my iPac keyboard encoder’s shift function appears to have disappeared in this version of MAME and so some of my keyboard mapping is a little off. I’m still on the fence between all this gloss though and a simple gamelist/snapshot static screen but I’ll run with it for a while and see how it goes. I must say, Hyperspin certainly does look incredibly nice when running on a cabinet. I’ve also upgraded my Mame set from good old trusty.
Mame hyperspin arcade machine upgrade#
Processor wise, there’s enough here to upgrade my current emulator frontend – MameWah to the media rich Hyperspin and have all that eye candy artwork whooshing about. I’ve been working this upgrade during the evenings as well as collecting all of the relevant bits and bobs and configuring a few more emulators that I wanted to add to my cabinet – namely, AAE for better vector game emulation, NEO GEO, Sega Model 2, Daphne, a few pinball tables via Future Pinball (for the time being) and ParaJVE for Vectrex emulation……because as you know, the Vectrex is cool.
Mame hyperspin arcade machine Pc#
Today, I’m changing out my ageing PC which I currently have in my MAME cabinet for something with a bit more clout. With the first coat completed and little else to be done until it dries, I sloped off to the geek den for a spot of fun.
So I’m off work this week finishing off the last room in the house and after applying the last coat of paint on the ceilings yesterday, it was time to do the walls today.