MAME Arcade Machine Update

Many Readers have been contacting me with questions about follow up articles on projects I have started so I thought I would fill you in on a recent project, The MAME machine project. I have already completed the software portion of it using a torrent download of bundled roms and a nanocade layout I found. The nanocade can be found here and the torrent here. All it took was some extra .ini and .dat files and a bit of configuring before I had MALA up and running MAME with over 6000 roms.
(Note: This took approximately 20 gigabytes of space on my computer and the torrent did take over 48 hours to download even on my machine.)

It was actually a very simple project after some messing around with settings. All i have left is the hardware portion which will most likely take up the majority of the time spent on the project. I love hardware assembly but I am much more cautious going about it then programming because it has no backspace. Not to mention it is much more expensive. I am going to have to hunt around for parts and pieces to get this machine up and running for under $400.

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