MAME Arcade Cabinet

[Turd]

So I started building my arcade machine, beginning with the essentials, the PC and controls.  I bought my arcade stick already built for $140, and it's a nice little setup for sure. (http://www.xgaming.com/)

I configured it to work with MAME and Nestopia, and so far, it's freakin sweet!  I couldn't get an actual RBI Arcade ROM to play with MAME, so I had to settle for playing the arcade version of the NES game. 

I gotta say, this is gonna be a fun project.  It'll be sweet to have my own arcade and play most any game I desire.

[Turd]

I just realized I posted this in the RBI section and not ATG.  Woops...

I'll be playing RBI on it, so I guess it counts then

[ultimate7]

RBI is probably the right place for it

[Turd]

Man. This is sweet. Just got NBA Jam and NFL Blitz working.

[Turd]

Started this project today.  Attached are pictures of our progress thus far.  Sometime this week we're gonna finish off the roughing and then comes the finishing...taking pretty good shape now!

[TβG]

that's a great looking project.  i hope you'll put a couple speakers up above the monitor somewhere, think about it.

also, does your son have a license?

[Turd]

I am putting speakers in the slanted part above the monitor, maybe even a subwoofer inside (someday).  And no, my son is 2.5 years old...why were you wondering if he had his license?

[TβG]

picture #1, he's all over that lawn tractor.

[Turd]

Haha, didn't realize that.

[Gantry]

Missed this thread before, nice work - keep us updated

[The Kongo]

very nice, so did you have a template for the cabinet cut out or did you basically make your own design?  This project interests me.

[Turd]

Arcadecab.net I believe.

[Turd]

It was arcadecab.com.  And, here it is with phase 2 done (keyboard drawer, top, back, basicall complete, minus finishing stuff (paint, t-molding, marquee, monitor bezel)

[BeefMaster]

That looks great - nice work.

[Turd]

Yeah, I can't wait until I can get some time to finish this bad boy. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out...

[Big Hath]

that's some mighty fine craftsmanship, turd.  Mighty fine.

[Turd]

I have a friend who helped out immensely...the guy had a lot of the right tools for the job.  The job ended up costing about:

$140 for initial trip
$20 for a flush cut bit
$20 for a second trip
$140 for the controls (although I used my fantasy football super bowl winnings for this)
$10 for the monitor
- some money for stuff I can take back

$330 so far...

I think probably $20 in paint, $50 in t-molding, $15 for a marquee, plus money for a piece of glass for the monitor cover...

Not a cheap project.

[Gantry]

Not cheap but the flexibility will absolutely rule, sounds like next milwaukee fest is at your place

[Turd]

Yeah, pretty fun thing to have around for entertaining purposes...we're gonna be selling our place, so if that happens, I'll gladly have a Dee-Nee fest at my place...

[Turd]

Opinion...I'm painting this thing black...for the t-molding trim, what color do you think would look best?

Black
Red
Blue

I'm thinking red to match the X on my controls, but I don't know...