iPad - Arcade (Machine) Mod

[Jester]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am3Vwtuwfyw

[Quenepas]

it has a (very unfortunate) limited support from game developers. Mostly classic arcade ports. Too bad since it has a street fighter button layout. Still I would get 1 just for the kicks if it's cheap.

I have been interested in a home arcade for AGES now. The problem is that they are mostly bulky since they have to house those old big ass cathode tube displays. Fast foward now with the advent of the flat tv panels, beauties like this are possible:



http://hackaday.com/2008/08/20/hacki...cade-cabinets/

They wouldnt release the blueprints of this AFAIK but I would gladly build this If I had the specifics. Couple 1/4 wood panels, a cheap 27 inch display, and some cheap Windows PC, perhaps Atom powered.... And MAME... 22GB of MAME....

[nuke5]

tight

[Hippie]

They're on offer in PCworld atm .... but ..... iMame has been pulled from the AppStore ffs
Which would explain why they're on offer, I guess

[Steve_London]

If you look on ebay, and have about £800 spar,e there are a few custom built MAME machines doing the round.

Last one I was looking at was £795 including delivery, and had a pc with built in emulators, so it had pretty much every arcade, master system, nintendo and atari game ever made installed.... more than 8000 in total.

It was also touch screen and had a jukebox built into it with loads of music already loaded on.

Genius.