Overview:
'The Project' is a MAME box that folds up into a portable breifcase-like design. This concept of this is to have a nice sized control panel, decent LCD screen, and all the parts nessecary to make it work all in a portable yet sturdy box. Something you can throw in the passenger seat in the car and not have to worry about damaging a joystick or a screen.
PLAN  | WORK IN PROGRESS  |
Unfolded and ready-to playcardboard model. 'Standard' 6-button control panel, 4 'admin' buttons up top, red backlit 'Instert coin' and green backlit on/off button. Volume-control and administrative barrel-lock to come. LCD fits in the back peice where marked, and two speakers and a small subwoofer mounted inside the beveled area up top. Buttons on side for pinball games.
PLAN  | WORK IN PROGRESS  |
Closed model. Shown here buttons for pinball. Finished case will also feature AC in via standard D plug thingy, audio out jack, 4x USB for external controlers, 15 D-plug for second external arcade controller, Network port for uploading files, and ventlation ports. Carry-handle and clips holding the two sections closed.
The case will be built soon(tm) (No room or tools in a unit, so going to a mates shed for a weekend coming up) and will measure upon completion 430x400x235 and will have 2.1 sound (2 speaks and a small subwoofer), a 19" LCD, and a emulator array of over 25 consoles/handhelds, along with a jukbox, media player and pinball games. This list is due to expand - I want to get the box going before doing too much more on the software. Has enough CPU poewer to emulate anything from 1970-1995 (Some variations, can run some arcade games right up to 2000, and handhelds. Ive decided not to emulate 5th gen console onward).
Backstory:
Waay back around the 1st of Feb '09, I decided to build myself a MAME case. Not all that exciting compared to the number of excelent cases avaliable. Alas, I already have enough crap in my unit so that I barely can fit much more, so a full cabinet was looking unlikely.
I started to think about making a bartop case, however even that was a bit meh with my avaliable parts. I had a old "19 LCD avaliable, and none of my old motherboards worked properly. Also, having a LCD of that size made things a bit dicky. I started wondering if i could fold it flat for storage when not in use and 'The Project' was born.
This is the sort of thing I see is something you bring to a party - rock up, unfold it and casually announce that you can be playing anything from 1942 from the arcade, Pitfall from Atari 2600, Great Giana sisters from the C64, DOOM from the old DOS days, Super Metriod from the SNES, Pinball tables from classic pinballs, listen to the best game OST's on the built in jukebox and see the latest game trailors on the media player. Ive already lost countless hours playin on the cardboard model case held together by tape!
SPECS:
Folded up: 430x400x235
Unfolded: 430x400x575
CPU: ~1.50Ghz
RAM: 2Gb
Video: Onboard (May be a PCI-E card eventually, if I find that i can play Freespace 2...)
HDD: Currently 120gb, expandable. Likely 300+Gb HDD added in the future.
Controls:
Single player arcade built in, second player avaliable by seperate arcade controller plugged into the main case.
- Sanwa joystick, 4-8 way interchangable operation
- Standard dimple pushbuttons
- Barrellock switch for admin menus
- Insert coin backlit button
- On/Off backlit button
- Pinball buttons countersunk on the sides
More controllers avaliable by 4x USB ports.
Wired USB keybaord (possibly roll-up keyboard for spill-proofage)
Wireless mouse (looking into feasability of adding a XBOX 360 controller as a wireless perhiperal)
Current Emulator list (more to come):
Console
2g
Fairchild Channel F
Atari 2600
Intellivision
Atari 5200
Colecovision
Vectrex
SG-1000
3g
NES
Sega Master System
Atari 7800
4g
Turbografx-16
Sega Genesis/Megadrive
SNES
PC
Amiga
C=64
MSX
MSX2
Handhelds
Gameboy Mono
Gameboy Colour
Gameboy Advance
Atari Lynx
Sega Gamegear
Neogeo Mono
Neogeo Colour
PC
Pc games
Jukebox
Video player
Arcade
Arcade
Pinball
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