im running Mamed! with a DC inside a JAMMA cabinet

[mame_dc_cabinet]

hey all, please have a look at my site. it is the culmination of a years work. i built my own jamma cabinet by hand, and have a dc inside it powering Mamed! for the dreamcast.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/mamedccabinet

[1stvinicius]

too much work for a few games dude

[kingbuzzo]

I assume you wont just use mame on that.

DC is probably the best console to put in a cabinet. In showdown it would be between ps2, dc, and saturn. The screen looks kinda small....and is it RF? Considering you went so far to make a cabinet, I would of thought you'd of at least used a decent rgb screen.

a pretty good job otherwise.

[mame_dc_cabinet]

at the moment its not RF anymore. and no, i wont be using just mame on it. i have about 400 dc games, and games and emus for master system, nes, pc engine, super nintendo and others.
the main games ive been playing on it are soul calibur and crazy taxi, amongst others
its nice to grab a stool and sit and play skies of arcadia.

[Darksaviour69]

thats actually pretty sweet, nice job

[Christuserloeser]

Awesome.

[1stvinicius]

well, if your planning to use it with DC games then you should take out that mame stick at the top...

[warmtoe]

I know we've had this discussion before! I too put my DC inside a JAMMA cab - as it happens, in my case, I have a real JAMMA cabinet because a friend had one that he wanted rid of.

One additional thing I did was to get a steering wheel, rip off the bottom and screw suction cups to the underside of the struts which hold the wheel together - I then stick the steering wheel down over the joysticks (the stick goes up into the cavity under the wheel) and connect the controller cable to the DC (which in my case is actually sitting outside the cabinet) - this works surprisingly well for driving games.

For those games where you need analogue stick control - you can just use a standard controller - perhaps in your case, putting the cable through the coin slot panel (I use the coin eject to connect wires to the outside world!)

Anyway - nice project - glad to see there are 2 of us!

[quzar]

so THAT's why you went through all the trouble to port mame to the dc

[Mental2k]

Nice job, looks good, heh, it'd be class to have one's own jama cab.

How much would a RGB screen set me back if I were looking, a fairly decent size now I mean.