Arcade Machine I saw at Costco

Holy crap this thing is sweet. It's got SO MANY good games. I saw it in-store for 2k. Discuss:

LINK (http://www.ultracade.com/arcadelegends/140/ultimate-arcade)

http://www.ultracade.com/images/199.jpg

dude its cool but youre playing like a million for an oversized gameboy. but yo go for it especially if it goes with your motif in you ragin basement bar for you and your buds. bring some babes and lots of suds.

[bdk3clash]

Building your own MAME cabinet would be cooler.

I dunno man, that seems like a lot of games and it's not like the console versions of these games were anywhere close to the arcade versions. I think this is [censored], and a lot of these games are from my gaming prime.

dude. seems like your mind is made. [censored] pound out some cash and put it on the sky mile card of rthe points. double the sweetness.

[tpir90036]

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And cheaper.

I'm not gonna get it any time soon, I just was hoping to share with someone who thought it was as cool as I did.

[Vlorg]

WOW...anyone take a look at the price for the 'expansion' packs? I really want to know who is going to pay $800 just for Dragon's Lair.

Vlorg

[fluxrad]

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What do you think they're trying to sell for $2000.

[Cry Me A River]

I've played this machine at the local Costco and it's a decent machine, but seriously, it's overpriced for what it is. You could buy several REAL arcade machines (depending on what you want) for what these go for.

Or you could make your own MAME machine for a fraction of the cost - Buy a cabinet for a generic game (or a non-working game) for like $50 (some guys make their own but frankly I don't see the point) then throw in like a $500 PC (plus monitor if the monitor is crap or if you don't want want to deal with the PC to arcade monitor issue) and you're good to go (maybe a couple hundred dollars is you want to mod up the control panel and add extra/specialised controllers like a spinner or track ball). Then just paint up the cabinet or apply decals...

[uw_madtown]

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And cheaper.

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I remember when I first saw links to MAME cabinets. Whenever I settle down somewhere and buy a house, that's going to be project number one. Hot damn they're awesome.

[Stu Pidasso]

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Or you could make your own MAME machine for a fraction of the cost - Buy a cabinet for a generic game (or a non-working game) for like $50 (some guys make their own but frankly I don't see the point) then throw in like a $500 PC (plus monitor if the monitor is crap or if you don't want want to deal with the PC to arcade monitor issue) and you're good to go (maybe a couple hundred dollars is you want to mod up the control panel and add extra/specialised controllers like a spinner or track ball). Then just paint up the cabinet or apply decals...

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The cost associated with building a decent MAME cabinet(like this one) http://www.cybercoma.com/supercade/images/lower_machine.jpg add up quickly to a tidy sum.

If you really want to do it on the cheap just use your PC and this

http://www.x-arcade.com/images/newimages/2player2.jpg

Stu

I saw this thing at BJ's tonight. I'm 5'2" and it made me feel tall.

ok so, where are you guys getting your ROMs? all mine are missing files. I get the feeling Im doing something wrong. using Mame32

[Cry Me A River]

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ok so, where are you guys getting your ROMs? all mine are missing files. I get the feeling Im doing something wrong. using Mame32

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I generally only update every 6 months or so (unless something I'm really anticipating gets added/fixed - I have an older PC and newer games don't run very well on my machine so there's no real point to keeping right up to date). Every time I do update, a bunch of ROM sets need to be replaced because they've been updated in the interim. This can be a real pain in the ass if they've been recently updated and some of the ROM sites are behind too. This MAY be what is happening to you.

Or, you may not have setup MAME properly - What directory do you have you ROM sets in? Did you tell MAME what directory to use? (In MAME32, click OPTIONS then DIRECTORIES. Use the pull-down menu to select ROMs then use BROWSE or INSERT to add directories)

Like I mentioned, it's been several months since I updated so I have no current sites, but the best places for ROMs for me has always been IRC and Usenet (well, since mame.dk died, anyway).

IT HAS DODGEBALL!

[jedi]

Get me Tournament Cyberball and I'll be happy for the rest of my life.

[Cry Me A River]

You could always get one of these:

http://craphound.com/images/needlepointpacman.jpg

(Yup, it's needlepoint!)

Link to eBay auction! (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fashion-Doll-VIDEO-GAME-ARCADE-Plastic-Canvas-BARBIE-SZ_W0QQitemZ8241864691QQcategoryZ19159QQssPageName ZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

[Niwa]

I gotta buy that.