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you can get cheapish refurbished window tablets with touchscreens that work quite well which is something i did.I bought it just for mfme to have the touchscreen landscape experience. Even if you could get in on a phone it would be quite small. At one time i had a shadow pc so could load that up on any android phone via the app but it became expensive and uneconomical to run so i dropped it.Ok for lo-tech i also had it running on windows on the steam deck lcd version as well as the great arcade simulator but doesn't yet work on the oled version as there are no sound drivers available and that trips up mfme.Hopefully they will come soon was looking forward to playing them on the oled. So there are options for a portable mfme.

Does anyone know if its possible to add a volume control for touchscreen so volume can be adjusting in games as its a bit tricky to get to my cabinet speakers. I'm using Touch-Play front end. Thanks

Hi all, has anyone put a fruit machine emulator and roms on one of these (or anything like this) before? I’ve had a quick scroll through the site and couldn’t see much. Thank you

Right so I have finally got round to starting a MFME cab, I have had the bits for many years and never seemed to get round to it, but the Interplay cabinet I purchased recently is working out to be perfect (and the bits left over like the Mk7 PC, MPU6, Vega etc all have a role in other projects too!). So far I have removed most of the valuable bits from the Interplay, mounted the PC, mounted and wired the i-pac buttons up (7 of them), speakers connected (got a little amp for that and used the cab speakers and wiring), got the big touchscreen working (driver installed for touch and calibrated in portrait mode). I am using a intel nuc PC which seems to be fine, need a USB hub tho! I have managed to utilise the original loom so far (see pics) as the Interplay cabinet has direct connections to the buttons (not a matrix) and also the lamps (3 colour LED on these), this has made life somewhat easier and a tidy internal cabinet wiring too (well at the moment at least, we shall see at the end). I am not yet sure if I'll work on the 3 coulor LED's or go standard 5v, I would like to see if I can make it work but they are 12v annoyingly which adds complexity. I am just at the stage of working on the pac drive now to get button lamps working then I will have the scary bits of coin mech and hoppers. I'll try and do updates as I make reasonable progress. Might be asking for help along the way! I have read many other topics on this stuff so the forum has already been a massive help.

Hi All, Been running some games on my desktop with wall mounted buttons and screen for a few months now in my pubshed, using a bluetooth mousepad for the non mapped buttons, would like to invest in a touchscreen with the hope i can still use the mapped buttons for the standard ones and then touchscreen for the others, but absolutely no idea where to start if i do, have used search but couldn't really see anything. Is there a good thread or help guide on the forum? Thanks in advance.

So finally finished my small bartop icade conversion. The cabinet lent itself perfectly for the job although was certainly tough trying to squeeze everything in! So I bought off Ebay an ION Icade off eBay for £18, a HP 15" 4:3 touchscreen monitor for £12 and a Dell micro PC for £40. I ordered an Ipac, Pac drive and a load of buttons from Arcade World along with a Barcrest button and 5v leds off eBay. I had to cut the top pieces of the side panels off the icade to accommodate the monitor which I stripped out of it's casing. I wanted the sound to be pretty good as that's the best part for me, the nostalgic machine sounds and music so I fixed a 2.1 edifier PC speaker system to it. The sub on the top and the satellite speakers in the back as didn't want them sticking out. I simply used sticky back metal effect plastic on the sides. I replaced the control panel for a nice bit of wood. I used 10 main buttons, an exit button on the left side and a coin one on the right as well as 2 small buttons I use for volume under the fake coin slot which I wired to a USB on the PC. I am very pleased with the way it turned out

Sure - but if he wanted to support multitouch touchscreen layout input in his android wrapper, he'd need to do some work such that the multitouch touch id/up/down/move data is processed in the wrapper, and then the relevant control is triggered in MAME. I could write such a system, but it's kinda a waste of my FME dev time really, since Oasis android port will do all this anyway, but running under a completely different paradigm. I've given him a couple of pointers, but I wouldn't expect him to write such an implementation, since it's a lot of work for something he wasn't even aware was not working lol He could do a quicker hack for a non-multitouch tap system - so when the wrapper receives a new touch down, it sets the relative MAME mouse pointer to that position... but that wouldn't support multitouch so a bunch of games would still be missing functionality... plus MAME is likely never going to look as good as the next version of the 3d machine rendering that'll be going in Oasis, so prob just best to hold out for Oasis android really, to get proper multitouch plus fancy 3d graphics/lighting/reflections

I have checked this, and unfortunately it's of no use for playing fruit machines really, as there's an orange 'mouse pointer' that you move around by dragging your finger on the touchscreen - you can't simply tap on flashing buttons to press them. And something like nudging up with holding a nudge up button, while tapping hold buttons would be impossible. Fun project he's doing, but still probably going to need to wait for Oasis android port to play the machines in an enjoyable fashion...

So this isn't a change to 'core MAME', but the MAME4droid spinoff project to run MAME locally on android has been updated, so now it should be possible to play the MAME layouts using the touchscreen. From the dev on the MAME4droid project: I tried the issue you mentioned and at the time implemented an option in Mame4droid settings, input, mouse, always gaming touch mode (you have to enable) that makes the virtual mouse always enabled. In that way I tested the rom that you told me and I was able to interact with the layout. Enjoy fruit machines on the go without spend money. https://github.com/seleuco/MAME4droid-2024/issues/1#issuecomment-1950293891 Oasis for android won't be affected by this since it will be doing its own input pass through, but that could be years away as the priority is Windows, then Mac + Linux... but after doing Linux, it won't be a much work to play standalone 3d Oasis machines on android, with the various fancy rendering etc. But in the meantime, MAME4droid should allow for some basic 2d fruities on the go

I do use a hub but only for low power devices like keyboard, mouse and touchscreen but if you have enough for what you need than no need for the hub no.

So I'm building a small control panel for my small touchscreen bartop. It can only fit 8 buttons. I was thinking :- Start 3 holds Cancel/Collect Transfer/Exchange Barcrest And one other. Not sure yet Will I run into problems having 2 keys as one button at all? is it possible to have this with an ipac? Will some machines cause problems if they usually have separate "Cancel" and "Collect" or "Transfer" and "Exchange"? Any help much appreciated! What buttons would you have? I'm really not sure what would be best. Not fussed about the 4th hold as won't be using club machines. Thank you

Don’t forget 5v led’s No matter how many buttons you have it will be impossible to map all the games, as Gary said use the touchscreen and I’d just aim for the usual hi-use buttons like cancel, collect, holds, hi/lo, start and gamble etc. and touchscreen the rest. Good job btw look forward to seeing it in action

95% of machines you can double up the cancel and collect button, most machines will do hi and low on hold buttons 2 and 3. MFME is pretty flexible, and for ones that you can’t assign without clashing, you can use the touchscreen. Mine has start, exchange, cancel/collect and 4 hold buttons. I often use hold 4 as a cancel for 3 reel machines with collect clashes.

Aah really appreciate that Gary. Yes that's exactly what I was trying to put across. So unless anyone else has any input I feel it's better to have separate buttons so I will probably end up going this route :- Start Hold Hold Hold Cancel Transfer Exchange Barcrest I can always use the touchscreen for Collect and any others on the top glass as you say. Cheers again

I don't think i fully understand what you're asking but I will have a go at answering: It does not matter how few or many buttons you have, as you have a touchscreen for the buttons on the glass then your 8 buttons for the base should be ok. I know button shortcuts on any button in MFME can have 2 keys assigned to them, that's all well and good until there's an instance where both functions are active at once.... i can imagine if you've got a single button assigned to do cancel AND collect if you was on a feature board and got a taxi and tried using cancel to slow it down, there's a chance the machine will assume you wanted to collect the cash stack instead. Hope others can add more info for you, i've noticed this question of your's has been up a few days with 30 views and no one has commented sadly... I see this a few times on this site and can guess it's frustrating for those who just want an answer to a genuine question. Hope i've helped a bit at least. Cheers, Gary.

Not sure about the OP but my Interplay was £400 delivered with a 7 or so game HASP. Really ought to sell the HASP but it'll have bugger all value! Screen is either 31.5" or 32" open frame touchscreen, pretty sure it's just a 1920x1080 panel running in portrait mode. Broke mine up as some errors annoyed me, game choice was limited, and it looked ideal for MFME

So been wanting to do this for a while... The aim is to create a very small bar top solely for mfme running with touch-play frontend. I felt it would save me a bit of time by either modifying a Picade which I have done before for Retropie or an Icade from Ion which I feel would suit better as far more rigid. So so far I have :- Bought an Icade off ebay for £20. Stripped and installed an old 15" 4:3 touchscreen HP monitor I got for £10. Also ebay! Installed a Dell micro PC. £40. Changed the graphics on the side. £9. Cut some trim for the bezel £7. Still plenty to do as you can see. I am planning to just get it up and running with only the touchscreen for now however my plan is to build a control panel utilising some old fruit machine buttons. I'm playing around with different speaker ideas at the moment. I feel sound is very important and the best part of playing these great machines. I will add that I have always had real arcade machines but feel you quickly get bored playing the same old games which take up a lot if space and end up never playing them which is why I have always loved emulation. I have to of course try to fit all the wiring and plugs into what little space I have left. Not looking forward to that!

So my T7 PC died, and since the Interplay was... Well... a bit like a low-budget T7, I decided to take the guts out and keep them for spares. I'll use the PC for my other T7, the MPU6 for the same (but it'll need different software), and the Vega note acceptor / recycler for one of my Astra cabinets. Can't say I haven't got my value out of it. I've kept the looms and things intact - albeit removed - but can't see me converting it back at any point. The only wiring left in place is for the monitor, PC power, earth, that kind of thing. Interplay had about 22 games in total, with my HASP having 5 licenses. Nothing special really apart from Hot Hot Hot £70, Crackpot Jackpots which was basically a £70 version of the RR with shots and bonus gambles, and Shanghai Surprise which I believe was like It's Amazing but also on £70. So I'll be turning the Interplay cabinet, now gutted, into an MFME cabinet. It's got a few positives - 7 physical buttons. The originals were RGB LED but I can't think of an easy way to implement that, so I'll be sticking which white LEDs and possibly adding decals or coloured acrylic or similar. It's already got a rather large (32" I believe) touchscreen. Not sure of resolution but probably only 1366x768. I'm really only planning on running lo-techs anyway! It's currently got an SR5e coin mechanism in, however I assume that - when I go for coins in/coins out, it should be an easy swap for an old Cashflow / MARS mech, whichever is best. It's lovely and roomy inside. As you can see in the photo, it opens up and you can pretty much climb inside. All I've done so far is get the cabinet in the house and gut it, but as I do little bits and bobs I'll update the thread ... (edit 17:15 11/04/23) Have decided to shove my old Alienware Alpha desktop in it. It's small, it works, it has decent graphics and CPU, but is a bit old hat now. Only teeny issue being that to use the existing kettle plug inside to power it, I've had to order a kettle plug to cloverleaf adapter... grand total of £3.50 delivered by Kenable. I could make one myself, but since I only have moulded plugs, it wouldn't be tidy. I can still test it for now though. Also the PC will eventually be mounted in a more solid manner... but since it's so small and light, I'm just going to hang it in place for now! One quirk of the Alpha is that it has optical digital output. So I might buy a cheap little DAC and AMP, and use the original speakers built in to the cabinet. They sounded pretty decent to me, might as well use them!

Ignore me, I’m being thick, don’t think that is a touchscreen either… Doh!! J

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/364245660609?chn=ps&_ul=GB&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-170562-880048-8&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=364245660609&targetid=2271253359826&device=m&mktype=pla&googleloc=1006886&poi=&campaignid=20958443039&mkgroupid=161516314961&rlsatarget=pla-2271253359826&abcId=9371139&merchantid=101457949&gbraid=0AAAAAD_Lr1elHJvbW9_qIiKK1y_kS33H7&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqf2Syq3zgwMVippQBh36oAWxEAQYASABEgIfOfD_BwE Expensive, but this one is touchscreen, 10 point J

Ah, not sure it’s touchscreen. Maybe available in that flavour somewhere. J

I really should have been more in-depth when it came to how I've done things... but then again the Interplay will need gutting and redoing at some point! So I've just measured my 27" IPS panel I use in the garage. It's 61x37cm (portrait). The 'space' I have in the Vegas Strip is 67x41cm. So basically I can shove my spare 27" IPS panel in and only have minimal gap either side of the screen. In fact I'd almost be inclined to just leave the gap there since it's only a couple of CM either way with the screen in a central position. I really had planned on running dual screen but I feel now it's going to be a pain in the arse. Pros : Single screen easier to drive, layouts will just display correctly with no issues. Cons : Will require me to remove parts of the top door. Will lose touchscreen functionality. Will need to potentially 'brace' the top door for strength. Will need to either modify or make my own VESA type mount. @Ross as someone who has run dual screens in a T7 cab - is it a case of each layout needing to be split in two to work correctly even with current MFME? It's an annoying situation... I mean if I do convert a bunch of layouts to dual screen they will work if I decide to convert any of my other machines (for example the Storm cab) down the line - saving work there. At the same time I feels like a fair bit of faff!!

There is a dual screen checkbox at the bottom of 'preferences' but I'm not sure it makes any difference? If I have to redo layouts for dual screen then it's fair enough - this can is mainly for lo-techs anyway so they will be quite simple to butcher. But I'm still optimistic there is a way to do it without resorting to a scalpel... and hammer (The more I think about it, if it's going to be a lot of grief, I may just sell the monitors on and get a single 27" or so and bang it in. Since I've wisely not mounted any hardware to the back of the monitors, it shouldn't be too much of a nightmare! Come to think of it I currently run a 27" Philips IPS panel for my garage tinkering PC, I could use that in the cab - albeit no touchscreen ability - and then just shove any old monitor on there. Barely gets used as I whittle my machine collection down!)

Cheers Ross - yes, it's going to be dual screen for the moment. Once one screen dies I'll rip the pair out and stick a single portrait screen in there They are both the same resolution. At a guess I'd assume 1280x1024 but could be 1024x768. They aren't that sharp! To be honest this cabinet is mainly going to be for my Concept machines - I figured Electrocoin based layouts may as well go into an Electrocoin branded cabinet - along with other select lo-techs (Mazooma, Astra e.t.c.) but it'll obviously be capable of running hi-tech machines too. It's just that it only has the 7 lower buttons, and only the bottom screen is a touchscreen - so any buttons on a top glass would be inaccessible. I've got the Interplay - which I will finish once I sort this out - as my main hi-tech cabinet, since it's got the 32" touchscreen in portrait mode I've decided I'm going to butcher the existing PC and just have a shot with it. If it doesn't work, fair enough. My main concern is the PSU, not sure that the SATA specific power outputs will be able to handle the load of the hopper. But I guess there's only one way to find out. If it goes pop I'll just have to hope it doesn't take out any USB peripherals like the PACdrive and iPAC!!

I haven't posted much on this forum over the years but today I'm compelled to say a BIG thank you to the community. Obviously it wouldn't all be impossible without @Wizard and I was fortunate enough to have gained help from him personally a few years ago getting my cab's PacDrive working but I'm also super grateful to everyone else involved and today I'd like to put a spotlight on the work provided by @Amusements , I'm in ore of the quality of the art work delivered by him in his JPM system 80 layouts (and many others). I can only imagine the many hours he must have put into recreating these beautiful designs, they are faultless and bring back so many good memories, they really do. This Christmas I finally found some time to sort out my cab project and fitted a second touchscreen and I'm just blown-away by how well it works in particular with @Amusementslayouts. I've now got this dual touch screen cab (which is great for all the feature buttons) running Touch-Play (again thanks to those involved in making that possible too) with a Pacdrive. I know there are loads of other people that put time into this scene/project but I can see @Amusements has the same love I do for those old classics from the 80's, they has been reproduced just perfectly in every detail. I've posted this in the cab's section as I think my cab worked out pretty well in the end but like I say it's thanks to you guys that this is possible. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3tuyvmbk1c90vicfizc91/IMG_4035.MOV?rlkey=jem9c8v8wnk96s0gjbfoj1yhn&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/oheqfreqv75rvpm88lbuh/IMG_4028.jpeg?rlkey=97fkj77inydsliy0eeq4477d4&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sjj476z8ravbf18mfxp1w/IMG_4030.jpeg?rlkey=4eas0sbqvq3840v773smj0a5e&dl=0 Sorry about the sound quality (in particular my heavy breathing and the button clicks - those sounds have got amplified somehow) Anyway, thanks guys, Graham.