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General and Gaming => Hardware and Tech => Topic started by: tpugmire on October 16, 2012, 04:31:45 pm
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Does anyone know how this can be done? I'm pretty good with hardware mods, but software mods are beyond my area of expertise.
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I have no idea. I think I've heard of it before. But every MAME machine I've ever done has used XP based Windows PCs.
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It can be done, but keep in mind that your Xbox won't be able to run a new version of MAME, and that it won't run very CPU intensive games.
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Good points. I may need to rethink this. I have this old xbox laying around, and thought it would make an easy conversion. How would you go about making a MAME machine that would fit on an entertainment center? Also, say I wanted to play a 4 player game like TMNT. How would you hook 4 controllers up? Would TMNT, for example, be a CPU intensive game? That's about the era I'd be interested in playing?
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... doesn't the Xbox support four pads already? :P
Also, I dunno. I don't have an Xbox. :P
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Prolly your best bet would be to hit up the forums over at the BYOAC, I'm sure someone there could easily point you in the right direction.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com
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I have no idea. I think I've heard of it before. But every MAME machine I've ever done has used XP based Windows PCs.
Since there's no such thing as a stupid question *AND*, since the only *really* dumb question is the one that's unasked (among friends, at least...right)?!
What, exactly, is a "MAME" machine, anyway?
:o
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Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, I believe is what it actually stands for.
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Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, I believe is what it actually stands for.
Yup.
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This can be done for sure, but as fox pointed out, there will be some things that will not run as smoothly on the Xbox. The hack isn't too complicated to get everything up and running. Just follow all of the directions step by step that you find. YouTube is really helpful these days with instructions on such endeavors.
Assuming you know very little, you will need several different hex screwdrivers (sizes 6 and 8???) and an IDE HDD to replace the one inside the Xbox. You'll also need to hold on to the HDD you pull from the Xbox to set everything up (and in the unfortunate event that you screw up the HDD swap at some point).
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Holy crap! Welcome back Darko!
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Well thank you kindly!
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Holy crap! Welcome back Darko!
Yes indeedy!
Been on vacation?!
:P
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So I've been doing some research on this still, and I'm in talks with a guy who will mod it for me. I was using the wrong terminology before, MAME can't be used on an XBOX, but there is another emulator designed specifically for the XBOX called Coinops. Pretty cool stuff.
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True, MAME is really a computer only thing. Coinops is pretty nice though. It runs smoothly from what I've seen of it in action.
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If you need any help or have questions you can PM me. I have 2 Xbox arcade cabs and 5 modded xbox's.
4 Hard modded via TSOP and 3 softmodded, all different model/versions
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So I've been doing some research on this still, and I'm in talks with a guy who will mod it for me. I was using the wrong terminology before, MAME can't be used on an XBOX, but there is another emulator designed specifically for the XBOX called Coinops. Pretty cool stuff.
Coinops is more like a front end that than an emulator... The GUI is unloaded each time a emulator core is executed. The code base for the arcade games is built off an old version of mame (0.84 and 0.72 core for midway)that was ported to xbox called mamedox and parts of mamedox 128+ which have also been modified to support more games. Coinops also uses a port of final burn alpha called final burn legends for cps2 and neo geo.
I'm curious to see how this is coming along. Any progress??
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so no progress? no nada?
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No progress yet. I'm in the process of building a house, so pretty much all my money is going towards that right now. I still plan on getting this done after getting settled.