Free(ish) MAME cabinets

By Peter Serwylo

http://peter.serwylo.com

https://github.com/pserwylo

(Not my cabinet ↓)

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Recycling old goods

Matt Evans: Hack everything: re-purposing everyday devices
The prevention of rubbish
The fun of tinkering with "rubbish"
Getting cools stuff cheaply

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Who else went to LCA2012 in Ballarat?
Did any of you see Matt Evans talk on Repurposing old goods?
Rob used to pay us 20c per plank we de-nailed, because he didnt want to throw away good timber.

Why?

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Why?

42'' LCD TV dies

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Why?

42'' LCD TV dies

CRT brought in as replacement (but doesn't play tennis channel)

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Why?

42'' LCD TV dies

CRT brought in as replacement (but doesn't play tennis channel)

CRT #2 brought in as replacement (but too fuzzy to watch cricket)

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Why?

42'' LCD TV dies

CRT brought in as replacement (but doesn't play tennis channel)

CRT #2 brought in as replacement (but too fuzzy to watch cricket)

CRT #3 brought in as replacement (smaller than #1 & #2, but clear)

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Mission:
Prevent TVs ending up
at the rubbish tip

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Hard rubbish

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Solution:
MAME Cabinet!

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Broken eeePC

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Criteria:
Use as much "rubbish" as possible

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Choice 1: Style

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Traditional arcade cabinet

Mame cabinet

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Cocktail table

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Countless others...

Tabletop arcades
Mini cabinets
Arcade that folds out from table
Cabinets that house a console and its game cartriges
etc...

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My Choice:
Cocktail table

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Always wanted one of these

and I think they are more practical than most arcade setups.

Choice 2: Controllers

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Arcade cabinet controls

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Joystics and buttons

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Three way rotating control panel

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Seven way, dual rotating control panel

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Cocktail table controls

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First thought

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Standard setup

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Pullout draws

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Pullout draws

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My Choice:
Mobile phone via wireless
(i.e. None of the above)

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I'm not bit on electronics (yet).

I was trying to do this on the cheap, buttons/joysticks cost money.

I'm a programmer.

Choice 3: Software stack

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For a hacker community...
...massive Windows users

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Preconfigured OS

AdvanceCD

http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/cd-readme.html

LiveUSB/CD
Emulator frontend

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Clean install + custom configuration

Fast boot times

Auto login

Auto start emulator/launcher

Auto start wifi + wireless controller server

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My Choice:
Arch Linux + IceWM
==
5 second boot time

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Choice 3: Games!

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Emulators

MAME

Atari

(S)NES

etc...

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Legality of emulating games

"Um... I think that if you own the physical game, it's okay to emulate it on different hardware."

Source: People on the internet who state IANAL

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Compare to homebrew talk last year.

Not as black and white as homebrew, which seems perfectly fine.

MAME devs are very concerned about this.

Arcade PCBs

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My Choice:
Atari 2600
(Then others later on)

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The end result...

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Using this table...

Hard rubbish table

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...and this perspex...

Hard rubbish perspex

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...and these offcuts of timber...

(Note to self, "next time remember to take photo of timber before leaving for conference...")

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...to attach this eeePC...

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Future goals

Build another
Actually use CRT TV
RaspberryPI (Has composite analog output)

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Other uses for old CRT TVs

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Conclusion

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I'll never be able to repurpose all of these TVs, but you can help

Resources

Wireless controller client/server

https://github.com/pserwylo/mame-controller

Tutorial on building a MAME cabinet (one of many)

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/
how_build_kickass_mame_arcade_cabinet_old_pc

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42'' LCD TV dies

42'' LCD TV dies

CRT brought in as replacement (but doesn't play tennis channel)

42'' LCD TV dies

CRT brought in as replacement (but doesn't play tennis channel)

CRT #2 brought in as replacement (but too fuzzy to watch cricket)

42'' LCD TV dies

CRT brought in as replacement (but doesn't play tennis channel)

CRT #2 brought in as replacement (but too fuzzy to watch cricket)

CRT #3 brought in as replacement (smaller than #1 & #2, but clear)

AdvanceCD

Fast boot times

Auto login

Auto start emulator/launcher

Auto start wifi + wireless controller server

MAME

Atari

(S)NES

etc...

Wireless controller client/server

Tutorial on building a MAME cabinet (one of many)

Completed cabinets (Hall of fame)

What not to do

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