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Miniature Arcade Project
alfonzotan:
--- Quote from: Corbo on April 23, 2011, 05:04:02 am ---I've considered the netbook option, I have an Atom based one at home I intend to do some MAME testing with as I could remove the 10" screen and hook it up to the 8" model I've got for the cabinet.
I also have a Core2Duo PC kicking around and am looking into putting this into a mini-itx board and using SSD storage. I can get a board which is 170x170mm.
The last option I'm considering is not putting a PC in the cabinet at all. It could just have USB and VGA ports on the back and you could just hook your external laptop/PC up to it when you want to play. I'll only consider this if space or heat becomes a big problem.
What are you thinking about building?
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Simple, small bartop, concentrating on early 80's games. I like your idea of using downsized controls. It'll have to wait until after I finish a full-size cab project that I've been plotting on and off since forever, though.
Then again, I might just be lazy and buy an iCade... ;D
Corbo:
It's the smaller controls that are proving to be the hard bit! But hopefully by basing it on a Gauntlet 4 player cab it will allow a little more room for the control panel. Good luck with your build. If I had room for a full size cab I'd be working on one right now :(
Rick Dangerous:
Hi :)
Nice and hard project !!! Imo the best way to have the smallest cab, you have to use a plug and play joystick with emu and games inside like this one , the bad side of this joystick is the number of game inside. Your idea to put and external pc is nice, but it will not make a standalone cab :-/
For the heat pb put more fan in :D
But yeah nice project anyway ^^ , and for the screen what will you use?
Corbo:
Hi,
I intend to put a fan at the back of the cabinet. The motherboard dimension is 170x170mm and has a built in GPU (Geforce 9300), it's designed for very small media centre PC's which have an even more restrictive case, so I'm confident this can be achieved without using a plug and play joystick.
A pico-psu and DC adapter remove the need for a large PSU in the case which is a big help.
The monitor is an 8" LCD with a VGA input. I'm not expecting this to turn out as small as some of the plug and play mini conversions, but it will be smaller than a bartop.
Thanks for your interest.
Corbo:
Well the first build day is over, I hope to finish the cabinet build next Saturday when it will go off for spraying.
You can read more on my blog: http://minicade.blogspot.com/
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