{"id":8590,"date":"2007-01-08T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/08\/mame-cabinet-3\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:03","slug":"mame-cabinet-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/08\/mame-cabinet-3\/","title":{"rendered":"MAME Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My MAME Cabinet over this past weekend, after I completed some general upgrades.
(Click for more MAME Cabinet (photo gallery retired)<\/em> photos…)<\/center><\/p>\n

Back in 2000 while still living at my parents house (this is both pre-apartment (photo gallery retired)<\/em> and pre-condo<\/a>) I ended up building a MAME Cabinet<\/a> from scratch. (Yes, just a pile of wood.) While it has been in my basement, used on and off for years, I’d never taken the time to properly photograph it, nor write up anything about it. Well, now I did.<\/p>\n

This past weekend I spent a fair amount of time on it, making a number of hardware and software changes, slightly upgrading MAME, moving to Compact Flash for storage, and generally cleaning it up. All in all, it looks like new again. Sure, it plays as it always has (read: excellent) but I feel as if I’ve rediscovered it.<\/p>\n

After finishing up the upgrades I wrote up a (hopefully) complete document on my MAME Cabinet<\/a>. This, along with high-res photos of it completed (photo gallery retired)<\/em>, high-res new photos (photo gallery retired)<\/em>, and the original webcam photos (photo gallery retired)<\/em> have come together with loads of text to (hopefully) provide a good background on the cabinet, how it was built, and what it contains.<\/p>\n

Tonight I still have to acquire the ~16GB of MAME ROMs I downloaded for it and process them so that I can properly pick from as inclusive of a list as possible for play, but this should only take some time. And while it’s downloading I can play some Bubble Bobble. Or Ms. Pac Man. Or Asteroids. Or Capcom Bowling. Or Gal’s Panic. Or Dig Dig. Or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My MAME Cabinet over this past weekend, after I completed some general upgrades.(Click for more MAME Cabinet (photo gallery retired) photos…) Back in 2000 while still living at my parents house (this is both pre-apartment (photo gallery retired) and pre-condo) I ended up building a MAME Cabinet from scratch. (Yes, just a pile of wood.)\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13040,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590\/revisions\/13040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}