Currently there are probably in excess of 60 games that I can upload and play on the NAOMI cabinet. Over a few months time I was also able to add Atomiswave games too. If you select the game it then will upload it to NAOMI to play. With a little work I created a separate "platform" on the front end for NAOMI which shows a screenshot and preview video. I already had a front end called MAMEWah configured to load my MAME ROMs, I figured I could configure it to also upload the NAOMI ROMs as well. I decided to add the NAOMI to my local network and use my cocktail MAME cabinet to upload the games to NAOMI. which is possible because both systems are based on the Sega Dreamcast hardware). What this allows collectors to do is to acquire the files necessary for just about every game for the NAOMI to play (as well as most games the Atomiswave system plays as well since Darksoft has figured a way to modify them to load on the NAOMI. If you happen to wait too long and the battery drops below a certain voltage, the game is lost and you have to "re-upload" the game. Once the game is installed in the NAOMI there is a battery pack that retains that game for a short time (basically you can turn the game off for 4 to 5 days without powering up to recharge the battery and still have the game retained in memory). Essentially you use another computer (whether it be a laptop connected directly to the NAOMI system or any computer attached to a network that the NAOMI system is connected to) to "push" content (games) to the NAOMI. I am not sure how many arcades actually used the capability though. It was designed so arcade operators could swap out games in the cabinet on the fly. So it seems the NAOMI system was built with the ability to drop a specialized cartridge in the machine in place of the normal cartridge that has RAM installed and a battery, as well as a CAT5 connector. It was about this time that I learned about the NAOMI systems ability to "netboot".
The cabinet remained this way for a couple months until I saved up enough dough to place another order for the control panel overlay (semi-custom) and a couple other overlays (Mario Bros and Gravitar/BW Multigame) at the same time. I also picked up a set of (barely acceptable looking) instruction cards from ebay.
I ordered a Marvel vs Capcom 2 marquee as well as a set of sticks and buttons to use. I already had an Area 51 (showcase) cabinet so the PCB was immediately put up for sale while i went about converting the cabinet to a fighter cabinet. I immediately pounced knowing that it would make a decent cabinet for Marvel vs Capcom 2. It just so happens within a week an Area 51 housed in a Z-Back cabinet popped up locally. It sat… for free… on CL for a week before I decided to load it up and do something I had never done before (and never done since)… take it to the dump.
#MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3 NAOMI EMULATOR FOR FREE#
I pulled the parts and put the ca binet up for free on craigslist. To be honest, the showcase cabinet wasn't in great shape. I figured I would pull the system from the showcase cabinet and then give the cabinet away. I knew I couldn't fit another showcase cabinet in the garagecade but after reading up on the NAOMI system I wanted it. It sat on the local cragislist for probably 2 months before I decided to pull the trigger. Unfortunately the showcase cabinet had no monitor. I picked up the Sega NAOMI internals for this machine, including Marvel vs Capcom 2 which was originally in a Dynamo showcase cabinet.
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