There are also MAME front ends which make it easy to use MAME in arcade cabs, like mentioned Pole Position-if you want to give it a truly authentic feel, you'll need arcade foot pedals. This also makes playing a game designed for the PC, like Q3 or UT, quite playable on such a cabinet if you include all the right controls, like a trackball for the mouse and buttons coded to each key used in the game.
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Plenty of special hardware is available to map arcade controls to keyboard codes for use by the PC in such a cabinet. As it will point out, there are many options when building an arcade cab, one of the more popular being to wire up a PC to the arcade cabinet and use it to run MAME, so that any one of over 2000 supported games can be played. If you're willing to spend more money for something new, try a cabinet from -they make new cabs, complete with your choice of different arcade monitors.įor the most info on this stuff, try m -the most comprehensive site by far. It's just cheaper, and less time-consuming, to use an old cab and then fill it with what you want. Plenty of people do this, but most just use old, stripped arcade cabinets purchased from local arcades or servicing companies. Besides, compared to old Civ2 it still stunk. I don't know why you would ever want to play Call to Power in a cabinet, it's a sit-around-and-think sort of game.
Granted, you can only hold one extra gun (besides your default one which cannot be dropped and has infinite ammo) and the joystick doesn't allow for quick movements, but if all your cabinets had joysticks everyone would be under the same restrictions. It has five buttons (forward,backward,L & R strafe, jump) and a joystick with a trigger for firing and a thumb button for discarding whatever weapon you have at the time.
The primary difficulty is finding a good interface to the games as they all seem to require many more control inputs these days than the standard 8-way stick and 6 fire buttons offered by the newest jamma cabinets.Īt least for the shooters like Q3A and such you might want to check out the arcade War: Final Assault, a networked first-person shooter from Atari. For some time I've been considering building an upright cabinet for more modern games such as Quake 3, Midtown Madness, and Call to Power.
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