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Pump up the Volume!

Posted in MAME Cabinet by Wesley on the September 16th, 2005

There’s one thing that’s always bothered me about my MAME Cabinet. I sealed the speakers up inside the cabinet, and consequently, I had no way to adjust the volume. (Other than software, but software can’t make it loud enough.) Anyway, just to prove that my MAME Cabinet is never really done, I added external volume control buttons that directly control the speakers.

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WordPress & More MAME

Posted in MAME Cabinet by Wesley on the August 30th, 2004

And now for another update. I’ve updated my blog to use WordPress instead of Blogger. I just like trying different things.

And I did make a slight modification to my MAME cabinet. I added a fully retractable keyboard drawer to completely hide the keyboard that was so obvious in the older pictures. I know, it still needs some paint, but it works!

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I also wrote a custom front-end for MAME. I know there’s 100 already out there, but now I have complete control over how it works.

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My MAME Cabinet

Posted in MAME Cabinet by Wesley on the February 10th, 2004

Okay, it’s been a year since my first/last post, plus I just finished my most recent “project” so I figure it’s time for another post. My latest obsession has been to build a MAME cabinet. Why? Just because I can. Anyway, it’s finally finished, so here it is:

MAME Cabinet AMD Athlon XP 2000+ Processor
512MB RAM
Geforce2 MX400
Windows XP
27″ TV

I ordered the controls from Ultimarc, I think the control panel turned out pretty well.
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Finally Mame Marquees did an excellent job on the Marquee, it looks very professional. (I got this particular one off eBay as an extra so I saved a bit of $$money$$).
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