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Mazhar Ali Khan

Mazhar Ali Khan

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Aoa,

So i recently had this Arcade Cabinet Game made for my home use, you know nostalgia and all. I love the idea of that "Token Wali Game" where we all spent a decent amount of childhood. The Cabinet and controller is all good but i am not that happy with game library. Its got around 250 games and those pandora boxes offer more than 1200 games.It only has one street fighter game the classic one and i want more. I wanted to know if someone had similar arcade cabinet or DIY project and have modified and upgraded the software.

The system it uses is old dell PC having Core 2 Duo E8400 and DDR-II. They use some of PCB based controller hooked with an ancient printer port. I am surprised that people making these cabinets dont intend to add more value to there games. Any one knows a vendor who can add more games to hdd or have any tutorials.

Help is appreciated please....



 
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ennay

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From where you get this and how much it costs? let me know your reviews and response time of joysticks, is it good for KOF combos?
 
Mazhar Ali Khan

Mazhar Ali Khan

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ennay said:
From where you get this and how much it costs? let me know your reviews and response time of joysticks, is it good for KOF combos?
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Bought this from Rawalpindi if you have the same location ill share the exact shop i bought this. As regards reviews i have kinda mixed feelings. For KOF its awesome, I used to play KOF 99 alot back in the days and i can more or less pull of all the combos. This one cost me around 21k but this one is slightly tailored to my requirements. You can more or less get this in 13-15k or more if you have some custom needs "Jitna gurr utna meetha" wali philosophy. If you live in Lahore they make these in Ichara Market. let me know if you have more questions. Oh one more thing

Pandora Box although seems like a decent option but that does not give you the same nostalgic feel this does. Both locally made solution such as mine and pandora box have few pros and cons. depends on what you want.
 
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ennay

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Thanks for your detailed reply, I am from Islamabad, give me the location please. also what about only the controller for PC, how much will it cost with good quality buttons and sticks.
 
Mazhar Ali Khan

Mazhar Ali Khan

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Rawalpindi/Islamabad
ennay said:
Thanks for your detailed reply, I am from Islamabad, give me the location please. also what about only the controller for PC, how much will it cost with good quality buttons and sticks.
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Why i am not getting notifications of this thread.

Any how sure the exact location is college road near committee chowk, Rawalpindi. I dont think such cabinets are made in Islamabad(correct me if i am wrong). Few shops are adjacent to the famous savor foods and one shop from which i had this made is inside a plaza next to the savor foods. I am leaving my cell phone here 03328902175 and if you want ill ask the seller to give you a discount.
 
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A while ago I got a custom 2 Player fight sticks made from college road. They only have cheap quality sticks and buttons and use PCB of broken knockoff joypads in these machines/boxes. I wasn't happy with the sticks, buttons or the controller PCB, so got Sanwa sticks, Happ switches and 28-button PCB from AliExpress and swapped those. Spent a lot of time on HyperSpin which is a FrontEnd for emulators to runs your ROMs. I didn't go for a cabinet coz then you get restricted on screen size, so I just got a 2 player fight stick box made with a 10 feet USB-C cable that I connect to PC and play on my TV. I basically made this setup for me and my brother to play our childhood games for some nostalgia but it's too much fun and our kids love it too. The sticks work great on Tekken 7, Street Fighter V Chamions Edition, Soul Calibur 6 etc. I have over 40,000 Arcade games on it plus all retro systems like Sega, Nintendo, Playstaion etc. It's a deep rabbit hole when you start collecting these and I'm currently well over 8TB :(

In your scenario, its a PC hooked up to the controls via a JAMA port.
Upgrade options:
Add more games to the MAME, check your HDD space first.
You can swap out the PC with a Pandora box that will connect to the JAMA port.
Check comaptibililty before trying above options, those are old technologies and are painful to get to configue and properly work. Best bet would be to downlaod MAME and get some ROMs and connect your Desktop PC to the cabinet.
 
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