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Going to build one of these.

Anyone here had experience with these? If so any advice would be great. or even if anyone has spare parts laying around that the don't want.
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No, I bought my bare arcade cabinet, didn`t want the hassle of doing the carpentry. :/

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That`s pretty cool TJ, where you going to put it?

Garage is being coverted so it will go in there. I reckon i am going to program it into the CNC machine at work. If thats the case i may be running a few off to sell. Will just be the cut out shapes though.

This is the control pannel i have the plans for. Not going to have as many gadgets though. Just 4 sticks and about 26 buttons.

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This item was edited on Monday, 14th August 2006, 21:21

Looks like thats a left hand panel?


Is that the time? Damn you Xbox 360!!!!

Oh yeah. Hadn`t noticed that. The plans are not like that though. I reckon they reflected the picture so it fitted the site better. Well spotted though. Have a gold star. ;)

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This is a great project, I wish I had the talent to do it.

A few things.

1. I noticed all these type cabinets are bulky and sometimes look a bit naff. Are you planning on modifying, to make one with a more modern look?

2. Also, everyone seems to mount a normal CRT screen inside the cabinet (heavy). Is there a reason for this or is it an option to mount a TFT inside?

3. Keep us all updated. I may even be interested in a flat pack. (Maybe you could sell them to Argos or MFI) :-)

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2. Also, everyone seems to mount a normal CRT screen inside the cabinet (heavy). Is there a reason for this or is it an option to mount a TFT inside?

depends, if your planning on using a jamma (sp) board & buying carts (expensive but collectibly satisfying) then your limited by the technology of it`s time, so probably a crt is the only thing you could use, but if (as i suspect) it`s just a pc running mame through a dedicated controller (& i hope your using a coin slot as well for authenticity ;) ) then you can use any monitor you want as long as it fits, but you`d be looking at, i guess, at least a 20" so a tft might be costly, also aesthetically you want no buttons/lights/branding etc on the front of the monitor so it looks like a "proper" arcade cabinet, but thats the good thing about making it yourself, you do it how you want it, i wish i had the time/room/patience to do one myself, imagine, mame shinobi/r-type/street fighter :D


i think i just came :(


no, realy

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Ok, it should look like these.

However i dont think I am making it as wide. As Ogster said 20" is fine and i only have a 19" laying around. Going to use a VGA monitor cos i am lazy and they are much easier to set up.

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This item was edited on Monday, 21st August 2006, 08:29

that looks well cool :)

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