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• BYOAC short for "Build Your Own Arcade Controls". Also the name of the website and community that spawned this Wiki.
• BYOACer a member of the Build Your Own Arcade Controls community.

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• Cab Short for "Arcade cabinet".
• CP Short for "Control panel"
• CPO Acronym for "Control Panel Overlay." A CPO is a piece of vinyl or similar material originally used to cover the metal or wood control panel, display control instructions and branded game art.

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• DPI Dots Per Inch. Printing term used to describe the resolution of an image. For digital files, it may be better to think of DPI as pixels per inch.

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• Emulator A piece of software designed to make one computer act as another computer or arcade hardware. See also Emulators.

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• Front End Software GUI used to launch game roms in one or more emulators

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• GUI Acronym for "Graphic User Interface". A front end is an example of a GUI for MAME. The basic MAME is without a GUI, MAME32 is a version with a GUI.

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• MAME Acronym for "Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator". See also Arcade_Emulators#MAME.

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• NOS Acronym for "New Old-Stock." This term is most commonly used to describe original, unused vintage items for sale or auction. Many times unused stock may be found stored away untouched for years. NOS items are not reproductions, they were manufactured by the original manufacturer and should be close to perfect condition.

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• OEM Acronym for "Original Equipment Manufacturer." An OEM was the originator of a specific part. Parts from an OEM should be more accurate than reproduction parts made for the aftermarket. Reproduction parts are usually not considered 100% fully interchangeable with parts from the OEM.

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• Port A port can be either a connection on a computer circuit board or a remake of a game/application on another system than the first release. For example the arcade game Pac-Man was ported from the Arcade to various home computer systems.

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• RGVACAcronym for the usenet newsgroup rec.games.video.arcade.collecting. This is a newsgroup for arcade collectors and those interested in restoring arcade cabinets to their original form. Regulars to the newsgroup aren't too fond of people that convert rarer arcade cabinets into ermulator cabinets.

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