My Craigslist ad has been getting lots of hits a day so I figured I should put something up to display this a little better. So here's the deal:
I'm looking for a street bike and I have no money, so I'm hoping to find someone interested in trading me for this kick ass arcade machine. Let's start with what I'm looking for, I'm pretty open to just about anything but I do have a few preferences. First of all, I don't have experience riding on the street, I used to ride dirt bikes a lot but I'm a little rusty, so I'm looking for something fairly tame. I'm also 5'8" and 150lbs so I don't really want a 600lb bike. Of course I'd like something in great shape, if it needs a little work that's fine, but it has to be currently running with no major problems. It doesn't have to be pretty, but I do not want a rat bike.
I built this custom arcade from an old Combat Tribes machine, it's a full size stand up cabinet capable of running lots of emulators. When I originally built it I wanted to use the old arcade monitor that was in the cabinet, so all the components I used were chosen for DOS compatibility and ability to rewire for old non-PC hardware. That worked great except for the fact that the old monitor didn’t have the ability to adapt to all the various screen resolutions for all the games, only about 20% were compatible. So I replaced the old monitor with the IBM Professional Series 21” flat screen CRT and installed XP rather than DOS. Currently it is running Windows XP Home (legit copy) and has arcade emulator with a couple thousand games, NES (original Nintendo) with several hundred games, SNES (Super Nintendo) with a few hundred games, and Atari with around 2,500 games. There are easily over 5,000 games on it, and it's easy to add more as well like, Gameboy, GBA, N64, Sega, etc. Understand that I am not selling the games, the machine comes with the games on it, but licensing is your responsibility. Anyway, it's running an AMD 1.1Ghz, video is TNT Riva2, sound is Creative Labs Sound Blaster 32, network is Intel Pro 10/100, and it’s got 512MB PC133 RAM. It’s running a 20GB primary hard drive for the OS and any Windows applications, and a 40GB hard drive for the emulators and ROMS. All of the main components have drivers available for any OS you can think of in case you want to use Linux or something. The main gamepad is made by X-Arcade and the USB console style gamepads I just put in are a Logitech clone. The speakers are Altec Lansing PC speakers. One of the coin acceptors takes tokens and the other doesn't do anything. The green lights are EL wire I've run where the t-molding usually goes. The marquee is custom and has glow-in-the-dark paint with a black light behind it to make it light up and match the EL wire. It runs beautifully and I would say that probably 75% of the games run flawlessly and most of the rest are emulator issues and would not benefit from different hardware. I would be willing to change or further customize it for the right trade. With it running on XP and networked it can also double nicely as a media box for playing music or movies on over your network. The way it’s setup right now, when you turn it on it boots XP and autoruns the MAME launcher. Everything in the MAME launcher is then controllable by the arcade gamepad so the keyboard, mouse, and everything else can stay hidden inside the case.
I also have a Black Gameboy Advance SP with a programmable cartridge capable of running all the same emulators and ROMS. It's currently running 4 GBA games and a NES emulator with about 25 games. I'll throw this into the deal for the right trade as well. Or maybe trade for a helmet or riding gear. See the pics below.
Contact Nick@NickTheComputerGuy.com or 408-677-7199
I order a new coin mech today so it'll be able to accept quarters soon.
I put a couple more pictures up but they didn't come out very good, maybe I'll post better ones tomorrow.
The picture below shows all of the game controllers. The console style ones also have four trigger finger buttons.
This picture shows a couple of the more recent changes.
These pictures are of the Gameboy Advance SP.
