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2014 MAME machines

It's been four years since I sold the last of my coin-op video game collection, including the first MAME machines I put together. In that time I took a well needed break from everything coin-op but slowly and surely I started to miss the nostalgia that classic video games brought me, and started to think about building new MAME machines.

I ordered the arcade cabinets in May of 2013 from Mike's Arcade and by November started to assemble them. It wasn't easy and nothing worth doing is easy. I got them the way I wanted by February of this year.

Like the first time, I built two machines, one is dedicated to vertical games and the other dedicated to horizontal games. I don't like control panels that are stuffed with different controls to play every game under the sun, so I decided on joysticks and buttons only.

This time around I was able to achieve my ideal level of emulation thanks to fine tuning the mame.ini settings and using LCD monitors instead of CRTs. I realize LCDs didn't exist thirty years ago but I love the pixel perfection I get with them.

The full specs for each machine: