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An Arcade Cabinet Multisystem

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I was wondering, if it was possible to make an arcade cabinet with the xbox 360  or Playstation 3 or even the Wii, and implementing the same aspect as the player choice 10 from nintendo or the

 

Neo Geo type of arcade setup, where you put a quarter in the machine select a game and play with 3 lives and then when all your lives are gone put in more quarters to play.

  • There's kits out there and plans for building home arcade systems using a pc to run a multiplatform emulator.  My brother in law built one that's got over a thousand games from various platforms.

  • Sure you can build arcade cabinet with game consoles, just a box with controls, game console and a screen!

     

    the problem is, if you want to have a coin mech, how would you attach it with the system. I've never used one (but I did build arcade bartop, which not quite ready yet..)

    but I think you basicly use coin mechanism as a button, which is basicly a good thing, it's easy to setup.

    works with consoles as well, but you still need to have games which use credit system.

     

    So you put a quarter in the coin mech, and it sends a command to "push a button" and when the button is pressed, you get credits.

    It's easy to do with pc since you have so many options to do the control and arcade emulators to run the real arcade games with the credit system, so you just define a button to add credits and the emulator handles the rest.

     

    I can't quickly figure out how to do this, If someone would have to build this quickly commercially I'd think they would have a separate coin system which would control the usage time of the console.

    so basicly you have a system which controls the power of the game console. When you put money in, it add's time, so you would get like 15mins of electricity and then if you don't put any more money it cut's the power (or it could hit the reset, or something)

     

    but so there's a good reason why people use pc with mame and other emulators to build their own arcade cabinets... it's easy to do and easy to customize