Building a new control panel for already existing cabinet?

[honkey]

I had never come across this problem before as I had been planning on building my own cabinet, but now that I have found a fully working cabinet for a good price, I am not sure how this would be done. I think the control panel on the cabinet will look like this. http://candescence.org/2010/04/

If I wanted to replace that with a 4-player control panel, the control panel would be wider and come out further from the screen. Would the control panel just be latched to the inside? It seems to me that there would have to be some more support to handle the weight of the control panel so that it doesn't just fall off the cabinet.

Also, I had never looked into using a coin door, until now because the machine will already have one. If I wanted to have the coin door set up, plus have 4-U360's with 7 buttons each and a start button for each player, would an Ipac4 have enough inputs? before, I had just been planning on having the U360's connected ia USB and not worry about a control interface. Or, would it be possible to have the coin door set up to where I could press the button as an administrator button and not worry about using an interface? (Hook the coin door button up to one of the U360's 8 button wires?)

Thanks for all the help you guys have given me! I am close to getting this project really moving!

[mgb]

As far as fixing your control panel to the cabinet, you would need to have some sort of support members to sit your control panel on. This can simply be pieces of 2x3s or 2x4s fixed the the inside under where the control panel will sit. You can then either use some sort of clips of bolts. I had a setup like this and I sat my cp on the mounts and I drilled the cp and marked it through to the mounts, then I installed these.http://www.whdirect.co.uk/product.php?productid=2203&cat=172&page=2
Then I bolted down my cp with butterfly nuts.

Whether you have a coin door or not, you will need some way of coining up for credits. I don't see where you'd need an Ipac 4 though if you plan on having u360s.
At most you may need something like an ipac 2 but if you just need it for a few extra inputs, you can probably get one of the cheaper encoders available elsewhere, otherwise you can use any extra inputs on the u360s like you said

[honkey]

Thanks. I had originally planned on using the start button as if they were shift buttons, so to get credits it would just be shift+button 1, but if the coin door can be used, I really want to do that. I should be picking up the arcade machine on Saturday, so I will probably post pictures. I can't wait!

As far as fixing your control panel to the cabinet, you would need to have some sort of support members to sit your control panel on. This can simply be pieces of 2x3s or 2x4s fixed the the inside under where the control panel will sit. You can then either use some sort of clips of bolts. I had a setup like this and I sat my cp on the mounts and I drilled the cp and marked it through to the mounts, then I installed these.http://www.whdirect.co.uk/product.php?productid=2203&cat=172&page=2
Then I bolted down my cp with butterfly nuts.

Whether you have a coin door or not, you will need some way of coining up for credits. I don't see where you'd need an Ipac 4 though if you plan on having u360s.
At most you may need something like an ipac 2 but if you just need it for a few extra inputs, you can probably get one of the cheaper encoders available elsewhere, otherwise you can use any extra inputs on the u360s like you said