davep180 Posted October 27, 2023 Report Share Posted October 27, 2023 Added a topper, used @Road Hog Madidea and put a police style beacon on top of that and a proper payout tray. Seriously thinking of putting a newer pc in, to take advantage of the great releases for v20. My machine is on win 7 for quizzes mainly, but I don’t play them much nowadays. 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordie52 Posted October 27, 2023 Report Share Posted October 27, 2023 get a new machine ul benefit from it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davep180 Posted October 27, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2023 4 minutes ago, geordie52 said: get a new machine ul benefit from it Everything is on a budget unfortunately. Hopefully I can upgrade my main pc and then put that into the cabinet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze Frog Posted October 27, 2023 Report Share Posted October 27, 2023 4 minutes ago, davep180 said: Everything is on a budget unfortunately. Hopefully I can upgrade my main pc and then put that into the cabinet. I'm surprised more people don't use old laptop internals in these cab's, lot less space consumed. Nice build though. I might try and build one at some point, some inspiring stuff for sure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slotsmagic Posted October 27, 2023 Report Share Posted October 27, 2023 1 hour ago, Ze Frog said: I'm surprised more people don't use old laptop internals in these cab's, lot less space consumed. Nice build though. I might try and build one at some point, some inspiring stuff for sure. I tried using a micro PC (teeny little Lenovo) in one. It's fine for free play e.t.c. but it'll cause issues when it comes to running real coins. So it'll be parted out and swapped with a proper tower at some point. But if you just want a fun way to play a collection - yes, laptop innards or teeny PC would be perfectly adequate, just make sure it's not totally ancient. 2 Currently owned digitals : T7 Encore, T7 Original, Astra iPub and Storm Street Casino. MFME cabinets : Genesis cab DIY by No1Stoney, Interplay conversion and Vegas Strip conversion (both are works in progress!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davep180 Posted October 27, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2023 My old win 7 pc with real basic gfx card runs mfme, old quiz machine games and basic mame stuff ok, but it will struggle to do anything later emulation wise. Win 10 is a minimum for latest mfme, so I guess any basic pc that’ll run that, should run mfme? Ideally any new (used) pc that I buy will be around £250 max! I don’t expect a massive upgrade for that. Any suggestions? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze Frog Posted October 27, 2023 Report Share Posted October 27, 2023 41 minutes ago, slotsmagic said: I tried using a micro PC (teeny little Lenovo) in one. It's fine for free play e.t.c. but it'll cause issues when it comes to running real coins. So it'll be parted out and swapped with a proper tower at some point. But if you just want a fun way to play a collection - yes, laptop innards or teeny PC would be perfectly adequate, just make sure it's not totally ancient. Ah, I see. Yeah, I'd definitely want a coin mech and hopper as well if I was going to the trouble of building one anyway. So is a PC better because of IO connections? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze Frog Posted October 27, 2023 Report Share Posted October 27, 2023 6 minutes ago, davep180 said: My old win 7 pc with real basic gfx card runs mfme, old quiz machine games and basic mame stuff ok, but it will struggle to do anything later emulation wise. Win 10 is a minimum for latest mfme, so I guess any basic pc that’ll run that, should run mfme? Ideally any new (used) pc that I buy will be around £250 max! I don’t expect a massive upgrade for that. Any suggestions? What CPU is your windows 7 PC running? Only you might be better off adding a bit more RAM or more powerful GPU, or an SSD. I'd skip Windows 11, and buy and install disc for a few quid and run that. You don't need the license to activate either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze Frog Posted October 27, 2023 Report Share Posted October 27, 2023 10 minutes ago, davep180 said: My old win 7 pc with real basic gfx card runs mfme, old quiz machine games and basic mame stuff ok, but it will struggle to do anything later emulation wise. Win 10 is a minimum for latest mfme, so I guess any basic pc that’ll run that, should run mfme? Ideally any new (used) pc that I buy will be around £250 max! I don’t expect a massive upgrade for that. Any suggestions? If you need a cheap PC though, really you want to get an office computer from a couple of years ago or something. You can usually get them really cheap, then add a graphics card. A lot of companies upgrade every few years, if you know someone who works in office type work you could ask them to let you know when upgrade is happening. I had a friend year's ago who would make serious money by literally just buying up all the old stuff from companies in bulk for dirt cheap and selling them on eBay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slotsmagic Posted October 27, 2023 Report Share Posted October 27, 2023 (edited) 23 minutes ago, Ze Frog said: If you need a cheap PC though, really you want to get an office computer from a couple of years ago or something. You can usually get them really cheap, then add a graphics card. A lot of companies upgrade every few years, if you know someone who works in office type work you could ask them to let you know when upgrade is happening. I had a friend year's ago who would make serious money by literally just buying up all the old stuff from companies in bulk for dirt cheap and selling them on eBay. My garage PC is a Dell Workstation, had everything I needed including loads of USB3, dedicated GPU, cost me about £100 delivered and was basically mint inside. 480GB SSD and 16GB RAM as well as official Windows 10 Pro. It's pretty old hardware (Xeon CPU equivalent to a 6th gen i7)... but total overkill for something like MFME. I can't recommend old office PCs enough. Edited October 27, 2023 by slotsmagic 2 Currently owned digitals : T7 Encore, T7 Original, Astra iPub and Storm Street Casino. MFME cabinets : Genesis cab DIY by No1Stoney, Interplay conversion and Vegas Strip conversion (both are works in progress!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slotsmagic Posted October 27, 2023 Report Share Posted October 27, 2023 27 minutes ago, Ze Frog said: Ah, I see. Yeah, I'd definitely want a coin mech and hopper as well if I was going to the trouble of building one anyway. So is a PC better because of IO connections? I think the issue is that the PC power supply is typically used for driving hoppers and the other components, and the PACdrive and hopper it drives needs to share the same power circuitry. So with a teeny little PC or laptop you'll probably just have a little external PSU providing a fixed voltage. With a desktop PSU you'll typically have a range of cables with different specs you can easily drive other components with. 2 Currently owned digitals : T7 Encore, T7 Original, Astra iPub and Storm Street Casino. MFME cabinets : Genesis cab DIY by No1Stoney, Interplay conversion and Vegas Strip conversion (both are works in progress!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze Frog Posted October 27, 2023 Report Share Posted October 27, 2023 2 minutes ago, slotsmagic said: I think the issue is that the PC power supply is typically used for driving hoppers and the other components, and the PACdrive and hopper it drives needs to share the same power circuitry. So with a teeny little PC or laptop you'll probably just have a little external PSU providing a fixed voltage. With a desktop PSU you'll typically have a range of cables with different specs you can easily drive other components with. Ah, yeah that makes sense. Lol, I totally overlooked that part of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davep180 Posted October 28, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2023 7 hours ago, slotsmagic said: I think the issue is that the PC power supply is typically used for driving hoppers and the other components, and the PACdrive and hopper it drives needs to share the same power circuitry. So with a teeny little PC or laptop you'll probably just have a little external PSU providing a fixed voltage. With a desktop PSU you'll typically have a range of cables with different specs you can easily drive other components with. Oh god. I forgot about all that lol. The pc in the cab had loads of 4 pin molex connectors which made the 12v part of the build a doddle. Newer ones don’t have those I believe (I might be wrong on that) and then an external power supply is needed. Then the dreaded grounding issue rears its ugly head again! I can’t upgrade the pc, it only had a few options for gfx cards and I think its ram is at its capacity. (It was an old business machine, so @Ze Frogyou are right about them being cheap. The pc before upgrades was about £60 I think. According to Microsoft it’s too crap to upgrade to win10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPU_FIVE Posted October 29, 2023 Report Share Posted October 29, 2023 (edited) I might get my MFME cab PC from here when the time comes.... anyone else used this site? Would this site be of use to you? @davep180 https://tier1online.com/ As i don't like the idea of a touchscreen for a cab, i'll probably be using 4 Pacdrives as my design idea has 47 buttons on it! Also with that many I'll probably have to use a IPac 4 instead of an IPac 2. All the best, Gary. Edited October 29, 2023 by MPU_FIVE Add Picture 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwardFarmer Posted November 1, 2023 Report Share Posted November 1, 2023 On 28/10/2023 at 06:52, davep180 said: Oh god. I forgot about all that lol. The pc in the cab had loads of 4 pin molex connectors which made the 12v part of the build a doddle. Newer ones don’t have those I believe (I might be wrong on that) and then an external power supply is needed. Then the dreaded grounding issue rears its ugly head again! I can’t upgrade the pc, it only had a few options for gfx cards and I think its ram is at its capacity. (It was an old business machine, so @Ze Frogyou are right about them being cheap. The pc before upgrades was about £60 I think. According to Microsoft it’s too crap to upgrade to win10. I have a 12v separate powerr supply in mine to feed the hoppers and coin mech, i found that a much better way than coming of the PC itself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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