Making a MAME Cabinet

[CPTBadAss]

Yes, that was how I started. It was in a full sized upright cabinet of which I have no pictures. It was a 21" IBM branded CRT. It was a great way to start. You can also save money by not going with a trackball. They are expensive and mostly used for the golf games.

Where are you located?

Cincinnati Ohio. I have little interest in trackball games besides missile command TBH

[adigaforever]

That looks great really job well done!
Now I want one too! :\

Any idea where I should start reading about the parts and stuff needed for a cabinet?

[CPTBadAss]

That looks great really job well done!
Now I want one too! :\

Any idea where I should start reading about the parts and stuff needed for a cabinet?

Look through this thread. There's been a lot of suggestions from jcrouse and mkawa. And thanks, it's been slow going but I'm getting there.

[mkawa]

if you like "modern" japanese games (fighters, twitch shooters, etc.), go sanwa or seimitsu. conveniently both are sold with harnesses that plug and play with some relatively popular turnkey usb host devices. if you grew up in the US during the 90s and want the authentic 90s-american-arcade feel, go with the il eurostick (former OEM of happ competition series parts); happ was the number one supplier of controllers for US market machines in the 80s and 90s, so you're probably incredibly used to the older competition series parts and don't even know it. i'm not aware of a nice plug and play harness for the eurostick/competition. we hand-crimped millions of stupid quick-release connectors and then wired them into a teensy-based board with screw-terminals (can't remember.. name...).

[h2gofast]

Dude that's kickass.  All you need is a bar to set it up in.

[CPTBadAss]

Dude that's kickass.  All you need is a bar to set it up in.

Definitely don't have room for this bad boy. I'm hoping to build the actual cabinet part this weekend. I'll post pics as they come along. Thanks for checking it out

Edit: Work decided that I didn't need to have anymore free time so I've been there instead of working on my projects at home. I haven't built anything yet but I did pickup a CRT monitor.

[agodinhost]

Ohhh gosh, I'm still explaining to my wife why I'm expending so much money into keyboards parts and now came this!!!

I'm dead!

thanks for all of you ...

[CPTBadAss]

I'm not sorry!!