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New Guy Building Xenophobes style MAME cabinet
Warborg:
--- Quote from: BigJon on January 18, 2011, 08:34:57 pm ---That looks pretty sharp! I like the red trim and black panels. What kind/size monitor did you use in yours?
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If I remember, it was a 22" Viewsonic pro series I had sitting in the back of my closet... It's a nice monitor, but have recently given thought to removing it and the top section and modifying the cab to use an HDTV/LCD Monitor... I know it's not an accurate way to display it, but I'm not as much a purist as I just want to be able to enjoy the games... And the space/power requirements of an LCD are obviously quite a bit nicer.
BigJon:
Ok, I know it's been a while since I last posted...but now that winter is finally over in Ohio (hopefully) I've gotten to move this thing in from the back of my van. Previously, the only time I saw it standing was when I picked it up...and it was dark.
Now that I have it in the light and standing I'm seeing it's minor flaws and places I need to fix. I can tell it had some water damage on the bottom (one pic shows 2-3 ring of darkend wood inside the bottom) and water damage on the top left side. Without having to replace the mdf, what can be done for that? Sanding it down flush to the rest of the wood and give it some bondo skim?
I'm probably going to order new trim for it....probably going to sand a lot of it down and repaint. Most likely at this point I'm looking at purchasing a used 17-20 inch LCD monitor to install in it for now. I'm also going to pick up a $99 refurbished desktop from Microcenter that seems like it should run one of the emulators pretty well.
Most likely at this point it's going to be a long project...so I'll make do with what I can and update parts later. Here are some pics:
Let me know if you guys have any major tips or some good threads for me to read to get the answers to fixing water damage and best hardware setups (just toss the box in with fans or take it out of the case and mount it to the wall inside?)
Thanks for looking!
Donkbaca:
just toss the box in, it should be fine, plenty of air flow and space in that cab. I think people here go crazy with fans.
The old "what computer do I put in this beast" question. A pentium 4 3.0ghz will suit 99% of your needs.
It should turn out pretty cool!
Good luck,
MH
BigJon:
I had a question for anyone who might know...is there a way to remove the little doors from the coin returns? I tried getting at them from inside (under the mechs) but it looks like I might have to pry the bevel off the front of the coin return in order to remove the flap? I'm just afraid I won't be able to put it back together.
Issue I have is it looks like someone took a screwdriver and tried to pry at the coin return flap. Yes, the tiny little flap where the coins fall when you push return. No idea why...it's not like they could access the cash box from there. It just bugs me and was thinking if I could remove the flap I could flatten it out and put it back.
Any ideas?
Donkbaca:
They probably did it because if you take a penny and push it up into the coin return shoot, you can often times have it fall down into the the coin acceptor chute and trigger the microswitch to play games for a penny. When I was a kid, we would always look for coin doors that had the coin return doors missing...
Anyhow, they should come right off, there are probably a couple of screw holding the bezel on from the back