Hi guys,
Been looking at this forum for a long time, however, I never had a cabinet.. until now. I acquired a cabinet from my cousin who was downsizing and needed this out of his basement. The cabinet had to be taken down to get it out of his house as it's a CRT build, I think that it's a kit of some sort, but I can't find any info on it anywhere about brand. Any idea if this was a common brand or kit? I believe it was acquired around 2000-2001.
How do I make a flip arcade controls top with what I have here? what do people recommend as hinges? I've seen some people use rope/chains as to stop the control top when it reaches 90. I couldn't find any instructions or links on this forum, can someone help me out please? see images below.
Regarding the cabinet, I'm wondering why there are notches (half circles) cut out at the start of the control support box? See the "lift" pic below.
Also, this cabinet comes with the first gen ipac ps/2 and optipac controllers that output to ps/2. Should I use these or think about upgrading to a newer version of these. The computer that this cab came with is a 10+ AMD 3000 that I haven't fired up yet.. I'll likely need to upgrade this computer or go Raspberry PI.
thanks for the help. I'm just at the start of my journey here, but can't wait to play this.
cheers.
Eric