Well it seems I may have gone ever so slightly mad!!!!

I’m up to my eyeballs in development our first ever 2D title “Project : Geometridae” which will go on sale this year via the Steam Platform for PC. With development really ramping up on this project and me seeing more and more hours of sitting at my dev PC I have in my infinite wisdom decided that instead of kicking back in my down time I’m going to build my very own fully functioning MAME based arcade machine.

No small task as it seems I have looked into the building process over the past few days and have decided on a shopping list of stuff for the build.

First things first MAME (a fantastic piece of software developed over the years by a very committed and talented group of programmers check this link for more info on mame http://mamedev.org/)

I have decided to use a front end for the game launching and have picked AdvanceMENU for this mainly due to the look, feel and customization of the software also there is a lot of other programs that you may add to the software (check this link for info on AdvanceMENU and other software http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/index.html)

ROMS (these are the games that you load into MAME and play)

Windows 98 or XP im going to have it boot into windows however it will auto boot straight into AdvanceMENU rather than windows

Old PC got that covered mostly anyway just need a power supply and hard drive

Monitor for displaying the games

Cabinet to mount the build in

Arcade joysticks and buttons (need to look more into this to get the most out of the games)

Wiring!!! (this subject seems quite hard to figure out but I have a number of options just need to sort the controls first)

TIME!!!!!!!!!!

I believe that’s about it for the shopping list.

I have so far got MAME and AdvanceMenu working fully under a windows environment on a temporary PC not the real one that will be the brains of the build. I ran some tests of a few ROMS and all is looking good If you’re looking for ROMS just do a google search and they pop right up for you to download.

Well im off to get on with developing games if you want to know more about the game then check http://www.facebook.com/Goal7 new info on their first or follow me @Gittlob or the Goal 7 @Goal7_info on twitter.