I thought it'd be cool to do a mod arcade thing... but I wasn't sure what type of programming they used in them.

i dont know what they used, but i no it could be easily done with flash/actionscripting

yeah, it's flash communicating (actionscript) with php

Cool. Well, I got the arcade machine today. It's pretty much gutted, but I can just ebay the parts. I'm going to blog it.

your on about a real-life arcade system ? :O LOL

....... because I was on about internet arcades and so was the poster before me.

Oh. I thought flash was just ahead of it's time... lol... Damnit, and I downloaded the program I need for action script...


See, check...
Now what?

I was thinking of just putting my spare computer in it and doing something with it...



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/prodigymytch/arcade.jpg

Lol, I was about to be the first in replying, but then I became unsure about which arcade he's talking about and let it be...

What I think I'm going to do is put my computer in it with roms.... and then Internet access. But it's just Win98 which will serve the purpose.

Therefore, I need a program that will limit users from going into the start menu and opening other programs. I only want them to be able to open Internet and the roms.

well i did sum research and found out they were programmed in C ( http://www.cprogramming.com/ ) Now programming in C or lets say C++ is probly over your head and seems like to much to learn if its only going to be for an arcade machine... What you could do ( i have no idea what im saying im just talking out of my ass trying to make sum shit up that works) is block explorer.exe from being run and have it only boot 1 single directory which would contain games you download off the interent. I

I know basic C++.... I can make calculators... that's about it... and Visual Basic... but yeah... I did some research and it seems as though "MAME Machines" are pretty popular, which is just an arcade machine with a computer in it with roms inside it.

I know basic C++.... I can make calculators...

lmfao, that's too basic!!!

Oh yeah, MAME Emulators are really nice.

http://www.zophar.net/Files/mame095b.zip <---Mame. You're just gonna need to upload the roms into the arcade's hd and bind an options/menu button.

http://www.zophar.net/mame.html <---there's a list of different MAME emulators.

http://www.zophar.net/windos.phtml <---check out the Arcade section for even more arcade-type emulators.

While I was at WMU, i managed to play The Simpsons and Metal Slug 3 :).

lmfao, that's too basic!!!


You'd be suprised some of the earlier game are very easy to duplicate. The easiet thing for you to do would be to programm this in Vb given you have BASIC knowledge of the language and how to program works. If youd like i could help you along the way with some things, i have VB installed but i havent used it in awhile..