MAME Arcade Cabinet

[BeefMaster]

My brother had a modded Xbox at one point - it had a huge hard drive that he could rip the full games to, plus emulators (although I didn't really see them in action) and a better media player than Microsoft provided.  It was a pretty cool setup.

[Gantry]

Whoever is selling that modded xbox with ROMs is going to get arrested quite shortly...

[Reds]

You fuckin narc.

[Gantry]

 

[Turd]

I was thinking it was just the case with a PC inside...the guy is actually modding the console to be allowed to play ROMs...taht's less interesting to me, especially considering the xbox controller sucks for NES/SNES play...

[rdub]

My next project is going to be an NES PC. It's basically what you're talking about.  You stuff a mini-ITX motherboard inside an NES case and hook up all the emulators.  It should be pretty cool for non-mame stuff, which I'd rather use in a standup unit.

I actually have a mini-ATX board laying around I just need a power supply for it.

Why is the MAME cab a pipe dream? What about a bar-top cade? Those things are nice, way less expensive...though if you don't care about the fun of building it, $175 for one of those x-box things is not a bad deal.  Got a link to them? I'd like to see them...

To build the machine I want, a four person jobber, I'm thinking it would be at least a $2000 investment when you include the computer, TV, speakers and I'd probably order a custom made control panel and then the hours on top for labor just make it pretty unpalatable but I can order basically what I want for around $3400 from a few places I've seen on the internet. It's just a lot of scratch to drop on something when you've got shit like student loans that should get paid off, cars with over 100K miles on them and you haven't taken a real, honest to goodness vacation since your wedding.

there's always something....