My 5 year old MAME arcade machine is struggling a bit. All the reconfigurations over the last 5 years have left the operating system in a bit of a confused state. It is struggling to recognise some of the USB devices (light guns, SNES pads etc), and is asking to be re-authenticated.
I’ve decided to replace the WinXP with Ubuntu.
The games that are big with the kids right now are:
- Metal Slug (1,2,3,4,5 and X)
- RodLand
- Galaga
- Frogger
As long as I can get these games to work we are onto a good thing.
How To:
- I was going to do a fiull write up but this is easier…go here and follow these instructions.
- Result:
Yay! It works.
TODO:
- Install emulators for Atari, NES, SNES and N64..?
- Configure all the above:
- Figure out why having a USB keyboard plugged in causes phantom keyboard commands. Whenever a keyboard is plugged in every game gets phantom commends for joystick-left. Ruins every game. Not a big drama as I have simply unplugged the keyboard. But it means that for debugging/installing I have to dive into the guts of the machine before I slide open the keyboard tray.
- Figure out why the drivers I have written for the LCD TopGun’s are so … clunky. They definitely work and track OK, but they don’t have very good targeting at the moment. Very gross movements, as if their are only 32-ish pixels/points spread evenly across the screen that the guns are aware of.
- Get tinted, hardened glass to cover screen
- Get marquee printed:
