Re: Mac mini as "MAME Console"

hi stephen,

i actually am looking into a mini mac to be used as a console only 
emulator, i have an arcade machine for arcade.

seems the easiest way would be for you to just run standard mac mame, 
get something like usb over drive and assign keyboard or mouse clicks 
to buttons not used on a control pad.  on my iBook is i have the XBOX 
HID driver and i can emulate mouse movements and clicks.  it could be 
cleaner and i still have some work to do but it should work for you.

since you are using a tv, advMame seems a bit over kill.

just my two cents,

t


On Feb 1, 2005, at 11:18 AM, Stephen Jonke wrote:

> I have this idea of taking a stock 1.25 GHz Mac mini ($499 model), 
> adding a DVI-to-Video adapter, and using it as a MAME console, plugged 
> into a TV. There would be no keyboard nor mouse, just USB game 
> controller(s). The Mac mini design would seem perfect for this.
>
> While MacMAME runs games great, it is not USB-controller-only 
> friendly, because it requires mouse or keyboard commands to select 
> games, quit, etc, plus I like AdvanceMENU's interface and it seems 
> more appropriate for a USB-game-controller-only system. AdvanceMAME 
> would be perfect for this application, except for one issue: it (on a 
> Mac) is substantially slower than MacMAME. A lot slower.
>
> I'm hoping I'm not alone in seeing the Mac mini as a MAME game 
> console, and as such a spinoff project might get created that would 
> work on optimizing the AdvanceMENU/AdvanceMAME engine for the Mac mini 
> and providing it in binary form with installer to make it as easy to 
> install as any other Mac application. Preferably it would be possible 
> to have it install a bootable system onto the hard drive so it would 
> boot right into AdvanceMENU and really be a console. But that's extra 
> credit. :)
>
> Note: I'm a user, so far anyway. I have no real experience with coding 
> on the Mac nor of MAME-related coding. I'd be willing to learn, 
> though.
>
> Anyone else interested in this?
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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