Build your own arcade cabinet

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elvis
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Re: Build your own arcade cabinet

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I've built three cabinets now:

Upright: http://benchmark.mameworld.info/cab1/
Cocktail: http://www.stickfreaks.com/cocktailcab.php
Second cocktail for a friend: http://www.stickfreaks.com/images/savvymame/

I'm in the process of converting an old LAI lowboy to MAME at the moment (15KHz monitor and J-Pac).

My gamesroom thread with some of the cabinets:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 28&t=22569

A good resource is the arcadecontrols.com forums and project list:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/
http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade_examples.php
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Ooooh, I want to build a dreamcast cab!
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eSPy wrote:
noiseredux wrote:One day I plan to build a GameCube cab with two built in Arcade Sticks.
im picturing something like this
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http://www.gearfuse.com/look-at-this-ho ... rom-1990s/
I was actually thinking of that exact article. Yes.
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noiseredux wrote:
eSPy wrote:
noiseredux wrote:One day I plan to build a GameCube cab with two built in Arcade Sticks.
im picturing something like this
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http://www.gearfuse.com/look-at-this-ho ... rom-1990s/
I was actually thinking of that exact article. Yes.
That pictures oozes awesomeness.
I'd love to build my own MAME cab one day. I need to do a better job crafting arcade sticks first though.
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Re: Build your own arcade cabinet

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The easiest solution is to buy and restore a jamma cab and just buy a mame pc with a jamma adapter. I have a couple of friends who did that. It's still not the same as playing on the real pcbs though.
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