I be jammin! Won't you Jamm with me?

Entry posted by Shannon September 17, 2007

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Well although I managed to sneak in a few rounds off klax and warlords on my awecades unit despite my lego star wars kick. Seems a new beast is about to garner my attention.

Guitar Hero 2!!

Last time I got hooked on GH I actually got blisters on my fingers.

I figured I'd dust off this old Blog and post it. I originally posted it back in Nov of last year.

My plans at the time were to start working in February on replacing the default Awecades drive with mine own containing mamewah and a ton of emulators. I've managed to do that, but not much more. Except add some mame gameplay videos to be played after 5 seconds of inactivity. It seemed to work pretty well. Obviously February is pretty far off. I think I started fooling around with getting mamewah going around June but issues at work really got in the way.

It's amazing how much time can be wasted trying to build up custom play lists. I'm trying to limit it to stuff I play the most but am always afraid I'll overlook a gem somewhere. Anyways the motherboard that came with my Awecades unit seemed to have trouble with the current versions of MAME and scrolling, as well as running some of the older early 80 games full speed. I did manage to update the screen drivers to get them finally at full speed. Not sure what I did though cause according to windows my screen driver update failed. Plus I had to bump the clock speed on the MB up.

So now I just have to decide whether to replace the motherboard, or just add some type of graphics card in this thing. I'm just thinking of doing the motherboard because I also suspect that the built in sound card is slowing things down as well.

Unfortunately recent unemployment interfered with my plans.