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Cabinet choice for 1st MAME conversion?
tela_pathetic:
Like so many before me I've been a big lurker here trying to gather as much info as I can before I dive feet first into my own MAME. Initially I'd thought to make my own cabinet but after talking with some buddies about my ideas one of them mentioned a friend that happens to run a Jukebox/Arcade gig on the side who's looking to get rid of some cabinets. After checking out the stock he's got multiple cabinets in various states of repair and I can have my pick of the litter(either stripped clean or with any amount of working parts) and wanted some input from the more experienced out there on if any of these might present unseen pitfalls or the overall convertability of the existing cabinets. Currently I have my choice of an NFL Blitz Gold edition, Golden Tee, Golden Tee 2005 or PGA Tour Gold challenge(pics are as close as I can find to actual cabinet model). Thanks in advance for any feedback and thank you for all the stuff you share, it really does help us novices.
Malenko:
if the blitz is a dedicated I'd pick that one.
tela_pathetic:
Yeah it's a dedicated cabinet any particular reason that one, other then maybe the game itself?
Ginsu Victim:
Made a MAME cabinet for my friend with a PGA Tour cab. Here's some pics
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=90725.0
Havok:
The Blitz cab is Mame friendly; good amount of space and nice size control panel to easily add more controls. Plus, you get a beefy system and you can still play the game within Mame.