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Anonymous Coward sent in: "I just ran across a very cool homemade emulation console. It emulates multiple machines, plays movies, plays mp3s, and uses Intel's new wireless gamepads to control everything. It's also cased in plexiglass and uses its own menuing software. The best I've seen yet!" His remote has a docking station.
How does he plug in those old cartridges?
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The whole project runs on windows?!?! And it's mostly written in Visual Basic?!?
Talking about impossible....
minus the roms ofcourse. Does this remind anyone of the Mame Arcade Cabinets people have built?
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In addition to the MAME front-end of the same name, the site features a nice collection of pics and links to converted and custom-built cabinets. IIRC, the Plastic Cactus site linked from this page has a set of measured drawings that might be useful, and there are probably others too.
There's also the very nice Build Your Own Arcade Machine site: http://plaza.powersurfr.com/kevin/arcade/
Both of these sites are geared toward creating cabinets for use with emulation, but if that's not what you're after I'm sure they could be adapted for true arcade hardware. I've been thinking of building something like an Sbox myself, someday when I magically become competent with power tools. ;-)
He has to connect them with aligator clips to his parallel port.
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Just the thought of an all in one type of machine has always been appealing. Granted, it wouldn't be my primary PC. Also, it might be nice to play mp3's with winamp and geiss running on it or something during parties. (Of course I would hook it up to my stereo if I had a nice one). A DVD drive would be nice to hook up too, but I wouldn't know how to get software to run the DVD software. A custom DVD player software would be sweet.
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
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If the zionists got their hands on this technology you'd never hear of it ever again, the kikes would want to maximize profits with their sales of gaming consoles.
Absolutely kewl!!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?!?! Oh man...
Make an entertainment center that folds shut to look like one of the mame stations. That way, you can use it as a gaming station, or a cool place to watch movies. Think of all the things you could combine into one... Throw in a PS2 (has PS1 suppt) a DVD-Rom in the sbox, a NICE stereo system.. Wireless keyboard/mouse..
:P~~~
Wow. I'm thinking about building one of these more and more each day....
Dearest Ralph,
I am an Aryan man who has been dating a Jewess for three years. It is only recently (within the past few months) that I discovered my Aryan pride and began to educate myself about various Aryan issues -- such as the Jew Problem.
It may seem obvious that the correct thing to do would be to break up with her, but I should first tell you about my Jewish temptress. She and I have been dating exclusively for three years and were beginning to have some thoughts about marriage. She is a stunning professional model, but she also recognizes that her proper place is in the kitchen. She has been very good to me and my family, and I have never been so deeply in love in my life. I've never even thought about being with anyone else during this time. Even the most elegant Aryan beauties pale before my seductress.
But then I learned about the Zionist Threat and the even more dangerous issue of race mixing. From what records I can find, it seems like I am a pure Aryan. I am blonde haired and blue eyed, as are my parents and grandparents. My father was a supporter of Martin Luther King and never taught me about my special Aryan heritage. If I marry my girlfriend, or even continue sexual relations with her, I risk tainting the purity of my offspring with her demon egg.
However, this woman is amazing even when it comes to sexual matters. Would it be permissable to restrict my relations with this Jezebel to oral and anal sodomy, or would this be allowing the Jewess to drag me even further down into the pollution of her kind's wicked ways? I was considering breaking up with my love, but then I realized that she would probably quickly find a male Jew and perpetuate her cursed species of ratmen. I would have her convert to Christianity in a second, but I fear the mark of Cain would still be in her blood and in her heart.
Don't get me wrong, my love for my heritage is stronger than my love for my woman, but is there any way to have both without invoking the scorn of God? What a sorry and uneviable state I am in. Please help, Ralph. What would you do?
Your friend,
A Confused Aryan Brother
(satire)
This is like the box for copyright infringement. First it has all those old NES, SNES, Genisis, or arcade games that no one buys anymore, nor can find anywhere. It'll play those damn MP3's which, as we all know, just mentioning MP3's is illegal. Let's not forget that it plays movies, which are already illegal to watch in any other manner than what is already told to be correct. Lastly, let us not forget that it runs Windows in the unlicensed way; only the XBOX can have windows in console form.
Striker better quit while he's ahead.
(/satire)
That guy might seem a bit obsessed, but he's nothing. At least his setup can play multiple games. This guy built this custom setup just to play GT3, it's crazy. Check it out.
It's not "there's always someone better than you", it's "there's alway someone more HARDCORE than you."
couldn't find a link from the pages, but the direct link to his menu files is here.
I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system.
If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, "I swallowed it. So sue me."
I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.
Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer.
Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.
This is just a PC with a TV-OUT on it's video card. And a "nice" VisualBasic Menu interface. Okay, fine, it can be used with a widely avalible gamepad syle controler. Oh yeah, he's got some [not so] nice plexi work there too. The thing just runs windows.
Come to think of it, It's much like the xbox Only with a worse video card, and more plexi.
No news here, people. move along.
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Geez, do Intel have sadists working in their ergonomics lab or something. That big loop thing on the controllers seems take up EXACTLY the same space that gamer's wrists would normally go.
That can't be good for RSI.
... but doesn't this kind of glorify the piracy of ROMs? I mean - I know SOME people get them legit, but most, for sure - don't. Putting stuff like this up just kind of makes everyone think how cool the "emu" scene is, and away they go, downloading....
Just an opinion, though.
It still amazes me that the big guys haven't cottoned on to the fact that if they did a VERY cheap 'pay to download' service on the ROMs, a lot of people wouldn't be that averse to paying a few dollars for a bunch of well outdated arcade games they loved, or old nintendo game, or whatever... :)
That way, they'd have a small revenue stream from obsolete games that nobody would normally buy these days at all...
And then a lot of people that are forced to use Warez ROMs 'cos they can't get hold of the game for love nor money anywhere other than warez sites can rest easy knowing they've done their bit for society and progress, and the company that produced the game in the first place doesn't have so much to gripe about.
Despite all this blabbering on about the requirement for copy protect, I think most people just want to pay once for something they use, and don't mind paying a fair price for what they do use...
I for one would love a nice easy, high bandwith site I could drop onto, pay a couple of dollars for a bundle of ancient games, and just enjoy.
I do like the stuff this guy's done with the box tho..
Cheers,
Malk
Does it play Doom?
I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you.
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Visual Basic is just a tool. It depends on who and how uses it. Talking about impossible, what about a JPEG codec? a LZ78 codec? a 3D renderer with shadows, transparencies, refractions and textures? All written in VB, of course
And don't forget that VB is the only way to do COM and DirectX without much pain
strange that he chose to use LoopyNES and Genecyst, since there are many NES and Genesis emulators that are much better, cref http://www.zophar.net
Maybe CmdrTaco can learn a few pointers from this guy ;)
don't forget about one very important component: licensing. You need to have all your software licensed. This is often overlooked by many people doing things like this but that doesn't make it any less important. You'll probably want to talk to a lawyer before doing anything like this as well. There is also new legislation called the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) which is used to stop piracy. If you predict that you will run afoul of the DMCA then you musn't proceed. If you do this don't overlook licensing as it's very important. Have someone come in and audit your "Homemade Console" from the Business Software Alliance (BSA) to make sure your licenses are correct.
...it would be illegal to do so since his creation isn't licensed by the game console makers it emulates. I already know he's infringing on intellectual property and the DMCA and I have called both his local police and the FBI.
Saddam is a fucking sand nigger.
in your heart you know what you have to do. just don't make it obvious because the jews control the police system as well.
By the way you write I can tell you are a Nark. L3wZ3r.
Taco's lameness filter got me. How did you get around it?
C - A language that combines the speed of assembly with the ease of use of assembly.
All this talk about building cabinets for MAME has me thinking about giving it a try. I've got enough spare PC parts (from frequent processor and motherboard upgrades) laying around that I could probably do this no problem. And it would certainly look cool in my game room!
Add a capture card and it looks like a decent competitor to a multipurpose TiVO. Add Ethernet and you can stream the video where you want :)
better yet, let's keep it the way it is and download the god damn things for free.
has anyone noticed trollaxor is gone? his webpage is gone too.
good bye trollaxor, you will be missed
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For the reasons already explained in another post, plus the site is the worst offender when it comes to annoying popups and requirements for clicking on a million links before reaching anything meaningfull.
For real info on building your own cabinet go to:
http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade.htm
For the latest arcade ROMs go to :
http://mame.dk - This is the site the arcadeathome guy tried to eliminate from the face of the earth.
- sigs are for wimps.
I understand your point, but my big beef is ... I own quite a few old NES cartridges. There's no way on earth I'd be able to actually rip the contents off the ROM onto my computer. But I can download them easily from these "warez" sites.
If I want to play my old games on a new medium, basically, what other choice to I have? Even if NES did have some sort of "download service", I would have to pay again to download games that I already have paid for.
I honestly can't figure any easy way around it.
Dlugar
Computer Go: Writing Software to Play the Ancient Game of Go
I have to laugh every time I see these things. They look like miniature toilet seats.
I once had lunch with a marketing manager in the Intel consumer products division. (This was not her product!) I asked why they made them look like... before I said it, she interrupted, and said "I know, don't say it."
If yer not handy with powertools and all that, check out the Book PC, you can buy em various places around the net, I got mine at a local computer shop for about $500 with a monitor. They're about half the size of a regular tower, and they have video out, ethernet, ok graphics and sound all built on to the motherboard...
I've been planning on making a machine similar to this for a while, but one issue that concerns me is the noise of a computer as a console. After some research I have pretty much decided on using the obscure Cyrix III from Via, because its cheap (pricewatch $35 / 700mhz), runs on standard hardware (Socket 370), and most importantly it runs cool (Via claims that it doesnt even need a heatsink, I'll slap one on just to be safe, but the point of using the processor is to avoid using a fan). I'd also be looking for the most quiet HD available (theres been some recent stories on /. on quiet HDs) and a quiet PSU (I guess I may need 1 fan for the PSU, thats all I hope to have in the entire case for cooling). This machine should run cool/quiet/powerful enough for use as a console system without annoying me with its noise.
Uhm, Sega Dreamcast runs off of Windows CE.
And, a lot of the tools that people use, including the VCD player (at least the ones I've seen) were built to those specs off of VB.
::shrug:: Doesn't seem too impossible to me, considering the Xbox is supposed to run off of a modified NT kernel. I've also heard that the programming package for it is a modified PC game-creating engine that MS uses.
But, of course, I could be wrong. Heh.
I don't believe that SMB all-stars would be a big seller on the GameCube, simply because the technology has advanced and SMB isn't yet retro chic. (Try again in 10 years.) The market wants Final Fantasy 4D DeathMatch, not Mario Bangs a Koopa with lame FM sound effects.
Here, I can use bold too: Piracy doesn't enter into it. Don't accuse emulator authors and users without solid facts to back your statements up. It's not nice, and it's not fair.
As soon as I somehow get a spare AMD Duron 850mhz, i'll use my current p3 550 (which can just barely emulate snes games).
his site is a bit slim on the specifics (to say the least!!).
someone mentioned "its like an xbox with a worse video card" you dont need a good video card to play nes/snes (just lots and lots of processing power.)
Another thing, why the 30 gig harddrive!!! All the roms/mp3s/movies you're gonna play are from CD, a 5 gig drive would work just as well.
Waiting for windows to boot everytime you want to play mario bros cant be fun either. Back when I used to use emulators they were all dos. Theres also no reason why you couldn't shell multiple emulator for the same system (depending on what flavor you like).
Anyhow, this guy is hardcore.
Cool Orac-alike case!
Probably a lot less irritating and a lot more useful than the original, too...
Am I the only one who thinks this is a big fat "so what"?
He built a clear case, put a computer in it, wrote a quick front-end to run the desired applications, and sent the output to a tv.
yay?
This is inspirational to me and it just shows that with all the cheap hardware specs you can buy now custom really is the way to go.
I hope nobody ever dies from the safety hazards in that case.
Which version of Windows is he running? Windows 98 or Windows 2000?
Do you guys think you could install Power DVD or WinDVD (or something else) and get good to excellent DVD playback on a standard Television? Obviously this is just a PC, so can anyone atest to the quality of DVD playback using a TV out card?
thanks
I'm a nintendo kid who hates most modern video game consoles, and I think something like the sbox is a cool (if easy) project. If I had a decent TV and home entertainment system, and didn't just play the rom's on my computer, I'd do something like this, definitely. I can't believe you guys are ranting about copyright laws (nerd! heh)... but those controllers have got to go. Simple GamePad Pro USB's would suffice.