Thanks guys. I've gotten lots of PMs with tips. It may already have launchbox on it already as there is a ton of stuff there. I have been using Hyperspin because that was what was configured when I got it.

There are only 3 states between us!

I've been doing that... the Japanese made alot of... adult games with seemingly innocent names. Most of it is 8bit and pixalated but still.

Not looking to configure all of this.

Aside from the Porn it is too complicated for my kids to use. With Pandora's box or even the retropi builds even an illiterate 4 year old can go to the menu and cycle through the games. It is too easy to press the wrong button and get back to windows with this build. I'm looking for something simpler.

I have gotten a few trade offers but just to clarify I'm not looking to trade for a plain asteroids 1up. If there is a huge gap in value I'd be looking at a trade + cash. Thanks all!

Not my intent. I am hoping for a trade here. If I do end up with cash it will be to get something similar my kids can use. If you are after just the software on something like this you can buy a prepackaged hard drive similar to what's on this off of Etsy, ebay, or other similar sites. If you want to help someone profit off piracy the corporate office I got this from got it from https://www.n2fun.com/ where you can spend 6k on one of these.

Thanks everyone. I have about 10 PMs with various suggestions on making this a little more kids safe. My last hurdle was keeping them from accidently exiting the system, and these button guards are exactly the solution I need. I am going to keep the machine for now and take another swing at this. I have gotten alot of enjoyment out of this and if I can keep it, I will.

I think the solution is to:

1. Install button guards to keep the kids from accidently hitting the exit button which is right by the coinup button.
2. Instead of having a hyperspin instantiation with 100,000s options, start up a second hyperspin with a handful of options and currate it with my favorites and stuff my kids will like. This will keep us out of trouble while letting them pick out their own games. In other words, I'm going to try the whitelist instead of the black list method. Thanks all!

I am putting this machine back up on the market as the family is playing the Arcade1ups I got more than this machine and I'd rather it go to a home where it will be enjoyed. Thanks and I am happy to answer any questions. I know this is an odd ad!

Thank you for your interest but I do not feel comfortable shipping at this time and am looking for a local deal.

Thanks!

A few answers to questions PM'd for the group. Note that the video tutorials below are from randoms off youtube and are not my machine. Also, I am not interested in an Arcade 1up pinball. Thanks!

Questions are never a problem.

It is absolutely possible to reconfigure the controls on a per-game basis, but I have never done it. I just added Robotron to my favorites group, and played it. It is preconfigured to work with the 8 way joystick controlling the direction, and the 6 Street Fighter 2 buton layout buttons controlling the direction in which it shoots. There are tons of tutiorials online on configuring MAME. I followed the directions in this link

(skip to 1:30), and had it configured to dual stick controls in about 5 minutes. I don't know how to do all of this by memory, but there are tons of tutorials online.

As for creating new folders... yes and no, and this isn't a great system for little kids as it is not intuitive for them. Additionally, although I have tried to remove them, there are adult games on this machine. Long story short, I got this from my boss who bought it for a corporate office, and then had to pull it because people kept finding their way to the naughty games and there is no real good way to filter for it.

Now, I have young kids and my solution to this was with a favorites folder. I don't know how to make new folders, but there is a favorites folder per system. When I turn on the machine, I launch "Hyperspin" which is a graphical interface to let you select systems and games (it not only has arcade games, but every console game up until about 2003, plus most computer games). I select the MAME folder, and from there I push the bottom center control button to launch my favorites folder. From here there are about 100 games that I have curated as safe and being my favorites that my kids can use. From here they can select and play a game easily. There are a few buttons that enter menu settings or exit the game I have covered with physical button guards (see last photo with the guards installed). They can select and play arcade games and they generally work down to having to simulate coining them up with a credit button. They can exit back into the favorites folder and select another game, but they cannot exit the curated favorites menu without using the keyboard, which is tucked into the cabinet. It is easy to add games or take games from the favorites folder, but only if they are from the same system (MAME arcade games in this instance). I have mine setup with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tetris, Galaga, NFL Blitz... stuff like that.

As to setting up additional controllers to play 4 player games, I've never done it, but I believe it is possible. Here is another online tutorial on how something like that is done. Should be possible

What it boils down to is that I am not an expert on this, but there is a huge online community on building your own MAME machine and configuing it. There is a nice PC in there. There are tons of tutorials online about how to do many of the things you are asking about. I hope that helps!

Thanks!

You can buy pre-configured drives like this with all the games off ETSY. It is alot of fun browsing through old games.

Detailed measurements and explanation of menu system follows as made answering questions.