So I bought this cabinet earlier this year and I’ve been messing with it to make it more like the one in the picture, and was wondering if this is just a early mame cab or something else cause I can’t find anything on it nor to many pictures except for the one.

Hello everyone !

I’m currently creating an iOS / Android app to locate arcade locations around you, including game list in each location. The app will be free without subscriptions or ads.

The app is translated in 6 languages (English French Spanish Italian German Dutch).

I’m looking for beta testers to get some comments. If you’re interested, please send me a PM !

I shared a video yesterday of the sound generated from the included fans with the nova blast cabinet. Today, I received some replacements (Noctua NF-A12x25 FLX (3-Pin) to swap them out with and they did not power up when connected normally. I believe I identified some wiring confusion with the current manufacturing in how the connections 'should' be interfacing. TL;DR, I had to reverse the wiring interface to the cabinet to get the fans to receive power from the integrated cabinet hookups.

Here is a video showing my struggle; and, what I did to get the replacement fans powered in case others have the same trouble I did:

https://youtu.be/GriAkAX5C08

Favorites list vanished?!? Any one ever have this? How to recover? What makes this happen?

Diagonal inputs are not registering.

Put together another quick short showing the Unico Nova Blast. I've been sharing some assembly progress on Unico's FB page and now I've actually got it up and running. Thought I'd share so others can see these cabinets are starting to arrive in the hands of customers.

https://youtube.com/shorts/r2CL-mMCpVo?feature=share

https://youtube.com/shorts/-6jPH6f0M_Q?feature=share

Above is a short I made demonstrating the sound levels on the stock fans included with the Nova Blast cabinet. This isn't to poopoo anything - just awareness so others can plan accordingly. For my use case I'll be swapping out to Noctuas since I have it located in a quiet room. If you're also fan swapping then you'll need to be able to bring your fans down to a 2-pin connection if you're going to power them off the integrated power supply and existing hookups. Hope this helps!

Hey guys, I recently bought an arcade cabinet off marketplace, and the guy told me it was a Neo Geo MVS. It does have a 1 slot Neo Geo inside, however after doing some research I’m thinking this is a conversion cab, as most Neo Geo’s are red and have a slightly different shape.

I’m planning on doing some restoration and putting a PC inside.

I’m curious to know if someone can identify what the cab was originally, as I’ll lean into its original design cosmetically if possible!

Wanna sell as is.

I've got a shallow closet in my basement that is prime for a custom 4 player build but looking to see if anyone has done this type of thing before to get ideas.

I'm interested in ideas on a rollout/locking control panel or other ways to keep the cabinet/pedestal whatever tucked away but quickly accessible for the kids when they want to play.

hello friends , does turning image enhance to off increase performances ? what it does exactly ?

another side question . when turn the whole arcade off ( button switch ) it turnes everything inside abruptly ( screen , pandora box ) . will this action affect the whole thing ?

thank you in advance for giving me the time to answer . much love brothers

MAME 0.271

It’s the end of October, which means it must be time for MAME 0.271! It’s been another good month for gambling system emulation. A few Excellent System games are now playable, including Miracle Seven and Fever 13. Several more games from IGS were dumped and emulated. As well as mahjong games, there are a few card games, including several variants of a dou dizhu game. Speaking of IGS, Mahjong Senpu is now fully playable. This game is interesting as it feels like a poor-quality imitation IGS mahjong game, although it runs on completely different hardware and doesn’t appear to rely on stolen game code.

Numerous issues with NEC PC-98 emulation have been fixed, many of them affecting graphics. This has resulted in dozens of software list items being promoted to working. The Research Machines LINK 480Z is now emulated properly. This 8-bit computer from England could boot BASIC from ROM or CP/M from floppy disks or a network file server. We’ve also added support for a somewhat newer system built around one of the oldest integrated CPUs: Dmitry Grinberg’s Linux/4004. This system emulates a MIPS I CPU on an Intel 4004 CPU, allowing Linux to run from an SD Card. Using it is definitely an exercise in patience.

As always, there’s far more in this release than we’ve got time to talk about here. There’s some very visible improvement to Namco System 23 emulation, quite a few new chess computers, more Japanese TV games, some progress on Thomson computer emulation, and lots of additions to the Apple and Sinclair software lists.

You can read about everything that changed this month in the whatsnew.txt file, and the source code and 64-bit Windows binary packages are available on the download page.

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As above. I want to use my own mini-pc collection to power the cabinet of my childhood dreams. Just looking for a pre-built cabinet to plug it into. All recommendations gratefully received please. Thanks!

Edit to clarify i'm looking for a 'pre-built' cabinet

Is there any reason I couldn't use non-traditional arcade buttons like these for an arcade project? I'm convering an existing TV to a cabinet, and I want to use stainless steel buttons that match the existing tech as best as I can. I don't know if these type of connections could work, but it seems like in theory there shouldn't be a reason why they couldn't?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BCF2CWG6/?coliid=I1FSWN1BMC8UG8&colid=3JHRFYXT1BAYZ&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it&th=1

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Hi Ive had my Pandora's box for a while now and took alot of the games off, just seeing if anyone knows where the ROMs download they send with an email is available anywhere for the 3000 rooms I can't find my email from a couple of years ago Thanks

Hey everyone, new here. I recently built a racing arcade style cabinet, and it's powered by my old Windows XP machine, I mainly wanted to play Outrun 2006 on it, but I recently found that the original outrun has a better version for PC play called Cannonball, but it appears to work only on 64 bit, at least with what's provided on github, and to get it running on my old 32 bit xp machine is well above my head, but I'm sure there must be a way. any suggestions? https://github.com/djyt/cannonball