Hello All,
Just acquired my first candy cabinet -- a Capcom Impress. Got it with a few multi boards, which are OK, but my ultimate goal is to turn it either in to a MAME or Mister(cade) setup. Was hoping to lean on the community to see if anyone had any tips and maybe answer. a couple of my rudimentary questions to help me decide if I should lean towards MAME or Mister.
There's recently been a lot of stir about the Mister, and specifically the Mistercade for a JAMMA cab project like this. I'm not sure when the mistercade will be available to order again, but anyway I still need to decide if that's the route I want to go down. Regarding the Mister, I'm wondering if it's conceivable to have it run through some kind of snazzier front end. Don't need anything as busy as Hyperspin, but something with good lists and maybe game thumbnail images. Second, is it possible to play vertical games letterboxed on a Mister setup if you're running your monitor in horizontal mode. This seems to be doable for a MAME setup.
If I were to go down the MAME route instead, what are people using these days to run MAME on -- a Raspberry Pi or something similar? And can you get an interface board that would reside between your MAME build and the JAMMA connector. Something like the JPAC comes to mind, but would that allow for the joystick inputs without having to rewire them?
I built a MAME cocktail cabinet setup about 15 years ago which runs on a laptop and an IPAC and it works well, but the MAME cab game has changed so much since then, I was hoping to get some insight from folks who have done it recently and maybe lay out the pros/cons of MAME vs Mister, and what the roadblocks of each build might be.
Thanks,
Just acquired my first candy cabinet -- a Capcom Impress. Got it with a few multi boards, which are OK, but my ultimate goal is to turn it either in to a MAME or Mister(cade) setup. Was hoping to lean on the community to see if anyone had any tips and maybe answer. a couple of my rudimentary questions to help me decide if I should lean towards MAME or Mister.
There's recently been a lot of stir about the Mister, and specifically the Mistercade for a JAMMA cab project like this. I'm not sure when the mistercade will be available to order again, but anyway I still need to decide if that's the route I want to go down. Regarding the Mister, I'm wondering if it's conceivable to have it run through some kind of snazzier front end. Don't need anything as busy as Hyperspin, but something with good lists and maybe game thumbnail images. Second, is it possible to play vertical games letterboxed on a Mister setup if you're running your monitor in horizontal mode. This seems to be doable for a MAME setup.
If I were to go down the MAME route instead, what are people using these days to run MAME on -- a Raspberry Pi or something similar? And can you get an interface board that would reside between your MAME build and the JAMMA connector. Something like the JPAC comes to mind, but would that allow for the joystick inputs without having to rewire them?
I built a MAME cocktail cabinet setup about 15 years ago which runs on a laptop and an IPAC and it works well, but the MAME cab game has changed so much since then, I was hoping to get some insight from folks who have done it recently and maybe lay out the pros/cons of MAME vs Mister, and what the roadblocks of each build might be.
Thanks,
Ω-Man
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