450-in-1 bootleg board

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Anyone come into contact with one of these...saw one on ebay and was curious. Its got a lot of later Cave stuff on it. Sounds kinda cool in theory and easier than setting up a mame machine in a vert cab.

Anyone messed with one?
 
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I haven't messed with one, but I did get an email from Yaton about them since I've bought from him before. I don't know if that's who you saw selling them, but apparently he's got them as well. It looks to me like a hardware version of MAME...
 
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brumma said:
I haven't messed with one, but I did get an email from Yaton about them since I've bought from him before. I don't know if that's who you saw selling them, but apparently he's got them as well. It looks to me like a hardware version of MAME...
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Yaton's selling those 48-in-1 classic boards. This is 450-in-1. Has Batrider, Battle Bakraid, DoDonpachi, etc on it.
 
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Hmmm... sorry. I just got an email from him yesterday, but I deleted it. I could have sworn it was this 450-in-1... Anyway, I guess that doesn't really help you.
 
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interesting. I emailed excellentcom and got a PDF listing of whats on the board. Its definitely a hardware MAME setup....not that thats a shock. Most games on the board are early-mid 80's stuff. Only stuff I cared about on it:

Batrider
ESP Ra.De
Dangun Feveron
Guwange
Donpachi
DoDonpachi
Gunbird
Dimahoo
Tatsujin 1 and 2
Strikers 1945 1 and 2

thats really all thats worth a damn on it. Probably better off just getting a JPAC or something. Although, the setup-free aspect is tempting.
 
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i'd be curious to see whats included on the board as well, i'm PMing you my email if you could send it along.
 
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Quit being a slacker and buy the JPac and Arcade VGA and build one yourself. If that boards crap out on you (which they're known to do), you'll have a very expensive paper weight. I knew someone who bought one of those 999in1 boards, and it broke like 4 weeks later. The hard drive crashed, and since it didn't come with any install CD's, he was screwed. $450 down the drain.

Just my 2cents.
 
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billd420 said:
Quit being a slacker and buy the JPac and Arcade VGA and build one yourself. If that boards crap out on you (which they're known to do), you'll have a very expensive paper weight. I knew someone who bought one of those 999in1 boards, and it broke like 4 weeks later. The hard drive crashed, and since it didn't come with any install CD's, he was screwed. $450 down the drain.

Just my 2cents.
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you are right....damnit

although, this one is supposed to be "card based - more stable", whatever the hell that means.
 
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pixeljunkie said:
you are right....damnit

although, this one is supposed to be "card based - more stable", whatever the hell that means.
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I was in the same position that you are about a month ago. I couldn't decide which to get... bootleg vert PCB, or parts to build a mame PC. After weighing all of the options (the deciding factor for me was the ability to update mame), I went with the mame PC.

I went through and hand assembled a full set of vert only games, all with screenshots and a nice GUI that can be controlled with only your control panel. If you do decide to get the mame PC up and running, drop me a PM, I'd be happy to share my vert-mame gui and shots/roms set with you.

Peace,
Bill
 
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pixeljunkie said:
you are right....damnit

although, this one is supposed to be "card based - more stable", whatever the hell that means.
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Probably an Intel X-Scale based board used to run a MAME emulator, with the ROMs stored on an SD card. I've seen similar setups.
 
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I'd love to see/mess with one. But I think Bild is right....a MAME PC is probably a better route.
 
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Probably an Intel X-Scale based board used to run a MAME emulator, with the ROMs stored on an SD card. I've seen similar setups.
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Yeah I'm pretty sure those 450-in-1's that ECL sells are along the same lines as the Counter-top SNK mini-arcades innards. I wonder if Mame has been modified on those 450-in-1's so it doesn't say mame anymore. Also, I wonder if the program code is stored on a flash card, or if its burned to a flash rom. I would imagine that the roms are on the flash card, and maybe even screen shot previews.

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