/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10459201
Mame cabinets can work, but you have to seriously limit the amount of games on it. I would put no more than a few dozen to maybe 100 games max. A quality selection of your top games you actually play

I absolutely do not like cabinets that have thousands of games (including consoles) like pic related, and you have to spend a few minutes trying to choose your game.

If you do a dedicated racing cabinet, then it's best to have 2 of them so someone else can race against you. A single racing cabinet is much less fun. Especially at parties or events.

>>9653016
It's not hard to make a Mame machine. But it's time consuming and the experience isn't the same as it was back in the 90s.

Arcade cabs usually had 1 game (unless it was a Neo Geo). And it played instantly when you dropped a quarter it in. No wait times or scrolling through tons of menus.

With Mame, people put thousands of games on their MAME machines. You walk up to a Mame machine and you can spend 10 minutes just scrolling through menus. Annoying and It really kills the vibe.

Plus you need to download roms, setup mame, fiddle with settings (which can take hours or days), test everything, tweak the controls to your likeing, and install a front-end (the pretty menu that you scroll through when choosing a game).

And worst of all, everytime Mame updates you need to re-download all your Roms again because the roms aren't compatible with the new version. I don't know why they haven't figured out a better way. If there's an error, then you deal with a lot Mame elitists who insult you and claim your an idiot. Even though Mame looks like it's still stuck in the era Windows 98. They havent updated their UI in decades.

When I want to play an arcade game, I don't want to use a computer. I want to instantly jump in the action. I don't want to deal with menus, error messages, or any other stuff that crops up.

I don't hate Mame and applaud the Mame team for preserving games. But I prefer original hardware when possible. It just feels better and less headache with setup.

Plus there are so many companies making hundreds of thousands if not millions by selling expensive custom arcade cabinets. Usually anywhere form $10K to 25K in price.

How on earth has Nintendo and other companies sued the absolute shit out of these companies? I watched a video going through everything on the megacade or whatever, and it's full of stuff like
>full sets of every nintendo system
>emulation for new pinballs and arcade machines
>a ton of pirated dvd rips from notoriously cunty companies who send anons letters all the time
>newer PC games like Cuphead and shit

They are like $5000 USD and dude is known for being able to just email him and ask for [insert shit here] to add in the next updates.