Console games on arcade

[Tonybhoy]

I have an arcade with 10‘s of thousands of games, but only have the Mame games activated

its in a pub and set up for coin credits

before i try adding a couple of the old console games (which are already on it, just not accessible in the menu), how does it work?

If i add fifa98 for playstation 1 for example…. Can coins be set up to play one full game? A second coin credit for 2 players?

or is it pointless bothering with this as the games were never out on arcade to begin with?

[dark13]

Basically pointless. All you can do is map "start p1" on coin1 and "start p2" on coin2 but not every game will work this way and if someone put a coin while playing the emulator will pause. Arcade bootlegs with consoles had some added circuitry to push start only after the coin was inserted

[Tonybhoy]

Fair enough…. Someone told me that it was possible to link to a timer…so 1 credit would get you 5 minutes for example

but i think that would only work if it was set for all games and impossible to change to a normal coin based system depending on the game

[dark13]

19 hours ago, Tonybhoy said:

Fair enough…. Someone told me that it was possible to link to a timer…so 1 credit would get you 5 minutes for example

but i think that would only work if it was set for all games and impossible to change to a normal coin based system depending on the game

Is it a PC or a PandoraBox? If it is a PC I think you can make it also with AHK but I have no idea about the logic to start a game and how to show remaing time.

[Tonybhoy]

21 hours ago, dark13 said:

Is it a PC or a PandoraBox? If it is a PC I think you can make it also with AHK but I have no idea about the logic to start a game and how to show remaing time.

aye its a pc, I’ll look into it

 

cheers

[dark13]

Wow, I have only 3238 games on 0.259 (no mahjong no casino no clones no rythm games, no consoles stuff etc) and i'ts not even a "safe" list as some games are listed as not working (es strider 2, you can play it from start to finish but if you press jump, fire and a direction at the same time it will freeze).

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