Project MAME Begins…
In July I was bitten by the bug to install MAME (Multi-Arcade Machine Emulator). I started with my Android tablet loading Mame4Droid and some ROMS. Lo and behold, it worked! I had read that it was possible to get a Wii remote controller to interact with tablets via bluetooth. Well, what do you know? — There’s an app for that! The Wii controller worked great with Mame4Droid. Going to the next level I bought a Wii Fight Stick, which plugs into the nunchuck jack on the controller, and got it to work too. Still, it was on a small screen. I wanted to true arcade experience. Enter “Project MAME”…
Since then I’ve been researching the style of cabinet that I want to build, the dimensions, deciding what I want the control pannel to look like, deciding what type of monitor that I want, how the cabinet should be decorated, etc. The design is coming together. I’ve ordered a buttons, joysticks, and a keyboard encoder for a prototype control pannel. The next step is to build the prototype and test it on a regular PC. (Much) more to come…
Dave