My cabinet

[sk8ersublime]

I built this cabinet a few years ago, i woke up one morning and decided that I wanted an arcade joystick, then when i was doing research, saw that people were building their own cabinets...then I had to have one.  Now this was my first attempt and the cab has been changed a few times since.  When I started it I rushed everything, worked from about 5pm-2am multiple nights trying to finish it up because I wanted to play so bad. 





















The controller is using the DIY kit from X-arcade from a few years ago, I chose this because I have a modded xbox 1 and it came with 1 free adaptor, so I can run this too. (well when there was a TV in it). Since then, I bought a few extra buttons and a 4 way joystick which i wired to copy the player 1 joystick.

I use to have a old 19'' CRT TV in there and I made a bezel out of wood and it looked pretty crappy.  I bought my self a new 23'' LCD for my PC so i swapped the TV for my old 19'' widescreen LCD which i mounted vertically for games like Pac-man, DK, Galaga, Burger Time...etc.  Im happy with it, except of course if i get the urge to play a 4:3 game :\

The bezel around the monitor I made with some presentation board from a craft store, and for mock up purposes, the artwork I printed and used a lot of black tape to get a feel for what it would look like.  The Galaga Marquee also is just taped together for mock up purposes.

The Control panel artwork I actually got printed at staples, something like $25, not too bad, but since localarcade was down, i used a low res image, and its a little pixely.

The side art, my friend painted, we always rock some Super Smash Bros Malee, so I had him draw and paint that for me, turned out really good!

There is no T-molding because I was lazy.

The first thing I installed on the PC was mame with mamewah. It worked well, but was too simple. So a few months ago I found HyperSpin and decided it needed to be changed, and I love the menu now! (needs a way to shut down directly from the Frontend tho...i havent looked that up yet.)

And finally i got a Over/Under coin door on ebay with Mechs for about $50 a few months ago, so I put that in wired it up and adjusted the mechs, works great!

Anyway, I just wanted to share and get thoughts on my unfinished/finished project.

the past few weeks I have done nothing but think about a donkey kong scratch build, so I am going to start that in a few weeks with the jakobud plans, and Im gonna take my time with this one, and use t-molding! haha

Let me know what you think!

[Ginsu Victim]

Looks good. You planning on painting the CP box to match the cab?

[sk8ersublime]

Looks good. You planning on painting the CP box to match the cab?

That was the plan, but idk if ill get around to it, i kinda want to just work on the DK scratch build...lol, here is a webshots link to the pics of this cab before i changed it along with the whole building progress

http://community.webshots.com/user/sk8ersublime

[Ginsu Victim]

if you don't want to paint, you could just cover it in black vinyl.

[Manre Boo]

I like it. Very good job

If anyone is building new arcade cab and dont need to play newest PC games -> If you can find semi-old laptop lying around, hook it up to your arcade computer. It has propably enough power to run all you need and in addition its small light weight and easy to get out if needed. Addiotionally it propably got built in wlan/bluetooth.
 This way you got more space inside your cab to install subwoofer / freezer to keep that beer cold. Trust me its worth it.

 I myself found very cheap laptop that has broken screen. I added lcd monitor to VGA out and its running allmost everything smooth, including PC Hidden Object Games, peggles, shmups etc. Main thing you need to look is processor speed, so maybe not go for minilaptops. Minilaptops are enough to most old games still.

[Dazz]

Wow, HyperSpin on a vertical monitor just doesn't look right.  Are you re-doing the themes to get the vertical layout or are you just rotating windows?

[DeLuSioNal29]

Wow, HyperSpin on a vertical monitor just doesn't look right.  Are you re-doing the themes to get the vertical layout or are you just rotating windows?

I was about to ask the same thing.  I would have loved to run Hyperspin on my vertical arcade machine.  I didn't even attempt it since it was written for vertical setups.

[sk8ersublime]

Wow, HyperSpin on a vertical monitor just doesn't look right.  Are you re-doing the themes to get the vertical layout or are you just rotating windows?

Yea a few themes look a little funky.  Im using a 19'' LCD sideways with windows rotated with a display of 900x1440. I love hyperspin tho, its awesome!

[sk8ersublime]

 This way you got more space inside your cab to install freezer to keep that beer cold. Trust me its worth it.

Never thought about that, awesome IDEA! Cab/Kegerator! hahaha!