thegreatiandi

Hello all. I have a question about games that will not allow you to map 2 players to a single keyboard. Games like Street-fighter 4-5, Mortal Kombat x, Injustice, the new KI, etc...will not allow you to map you more than one player to a single keyboard. Why that is, I'm not sure. It really sucks when you see the Steam sales coming and you buy a slew of new 2d fighters just to find that you aren't allowed to play it on your arcade setup. I'm sure that there is some kind of program out that will help you by tricking the program into thinking you have joysticks attached, but could you not just plug in two cheap keyboards to your emulating Pc and have it see them both independently ( V-joy i think it's called...but i hear it's a mess to set up )? So with my new 4-player cabinet I'm building, it has a 42" lcd inside. With this, i want to add new fighters and take advantage of the higher resolutions available. Without a way to do this mapping though, that would make this impossible. Besides dreading setting up the two light guns i want to install and setting up Dragons lair...this seems like it will be the 1'st in line for hair pulling moments. Any help on this would be great guys. Thanks everyone!

Hey man, I have a question about a few of these games. I have street-fighter 4 on my current arcade and as good as it looks, you can't have both players assigned to the same keyboard. Have you found a way around this issue? Have you encountered the issue yourself? In regards to the other fighters you have on this list, how many of them have that same issue i have mentioned ( if you have encountered them anyway )? Thanks!

Hello all. I have a question for you regarding analog vs 4-way/8-way sticks. Has anyone ever used one of these for there arcade setup before? I have always wondered about their application in regards to an Emulation arcade build. Since a lot of games past the 8-bit era shifted to the " meh " 3d polygon look, there are lots of games that require it. We have all used the standard " d-pad " setup to play a few of these games, and we all know it's hit or miss. I found an Ultimarc Analog arcade stick that im wondering about ( http://www.ultimarc.com/ultrastik_info.html ). Has anyone ever used one of these? If so, what was the result? Not sure if it's something worth investing in for my new build or not...but in theory, it does open up a lot more of the retro library if it works as i assume it does. Thanks for any information!

So, that looks like more of what i thought lol. Nice...and thanks for the assist. So yes, my arcade is a 4-player cab that I'm finishing up. It has a 46" mon as the display, so i had to make it bigger. I would like to get that full 8'x4' like the original cut of wood..then i can just lay it on each side piece and trim accordingly. I also created it in the garage as a modular cab so i can easily take it apart and move it indoors and rebuild it. Easy peasy. Now getting the graphics to look good on it and figuring out how to do graphics of the control panel is something else entirely. You said you just came up with a bunch of art from the net..and placed it on a collage of sorts? Because that looks professional to me?!

Thanks for getting back with us, man. So my question would be: vinyl? I would think that was super thick and an abrasive material. How was getting it adhered to the wood? I'm on their site right now, and i like the price for sure...but i just wonder if this " banner " material will look good on the side of the arcade cab.

Same. Where did you get the side art buddy! That and controller panel art.

So, how does the Pinball FX3 look? Any pictures?

Ummm...wait...you have digital game magazines?! I've never heard of this before. Most interesting....i think i want to try this!

Nioce! What are your system specs looking like? I see you have N64 in this as well...does it play nice with your system, or just like everyone else the games are iffy at best?

Awesome. I will check for this today.

Have you ever found out how to get the bezels going in retroarche, buddy? Im wanting to do this is for the new arcade build and for my rasberry pi 3 ( it uses Retroarche for the emulation ) Thanks!

Cool deal man. I'm heading there now Thanks!

Hello guys. I'm about to start my build soon and i want to use a 42" LCD for the monitor....and make it a 4-player cab. I currently have a 2-player that my late father-in-law and I built a few years back. I'm going to keep this one but need an idea on how to build a 4-player that can actually have the monitor mounted inside. Has anyone built a 4-player cabinet before and have any pictures? Maybe drawings on the build? I definitely don't want anything like this for a 4-player setup...so anything you guys have that will help would be great! Thanks guys!

Good to know. Thanks guys ??????

Understood. I will have to revisit once my PC is finished. Question though...is it a matter of an updated xml file that could filter better and not leave so many out???

That sounds awesome man. I would love to avoid all of those weird adult card game Japanese titles, Mahjong, Etc. It's really just the non-working ROMs that are always such a bother. One other question though, what about the actual title of the game being selectable instead of the ROM name? Thatwas always something that I hated about my setup. Like Killer Instinct is in the system is something like kijnt... something like that. It would be cool to select killer instinct from a list, and it plays...just like the NES, SNES, etc.... systems do.

Yeah...I had no idea. Honestly...it's all because of hyperspin. Once I got it out NDA where I wanted it...I was so burnt out...I never wanted to have to touch it again if I didn't need to.

Man... thanks for the response here. So a few questions.. What is cave emulation? Is there anything that can assist with sorting ???? I know current build, there's tons of " non working ROMs " because there's over 5k...and I couldn't imagine going room to room. As far as the no-intro sets...do you see any issue with sets like that?? Thanks man!

I shall be checking for that one for sure. I have been trying to stay away from anything hyperspin related though....the front end...tue toxic forums, etc lol. I guess if it's room sets with matching xmls though... However... question: is the no-intro set stuff a pain or something ????

I was wondering if its worth updating to a new version of MAME. I've been rocking the .143 version for some time now with a shaky Hyperspin build in my arcade cab. Now that im building a new one with Launchbox Bigbox, im wondering if there is any real reason to take on the tremendous undertaking of finding, downloading, weeding out bad roms, trying so desperately to get the CHD roms to work ( lol )....and perhaps...trying to find a No-intro set? Now i know i could go and read the update fixes on mame release notes...but i would rather hear from you guys as end users. Are there really many more changes in the new set that you notice? Are there enough new games that you feel updating made sense? Since I'm new to Launchbox, i do believe that LB uses MESS. I've always just used the MAME32 emulator...as i used Hyperspin to execute it. Will there be much difference in between the two? Are there any games that you notice run now, that perhaps didn't before? Thanks ahead of time guys!