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paigeoliver:
Previous project before this one. Started with this machine here....



$100 Game purchased at auction (heavily worn but fully working Neo Geo 1 slot with Puzzle Bobble in one of the leftover Cliff Hanger cabinets).
$20 Buyer's premium and sales tax.
$40, paint and painting supplies.
$32 Joysticks and buttons.
$5 Cap kit.
$20 artwork kit done by my wife.
$9 plexiglass.
$4 new leg levelers.
$60 new multi jamma PCB.
$290 initial spending.

I reused the existing jamma harness, power supply and monitor. I was also able to remove the sideart cleanly enough to put it on my other Neo Geo.

Now, lets sell the leftover bits.
$20 Neo Geo marquee with working credit boards installed.
$85 Neo Geo One slot motherboard.
$5 Neo Geo red cardboard bezel.
$25 Puzzle Bobble cartridge.
$2 quarters found jamming up the mechs.
$8 used joysticks and buttons.
$2 nice condition SNK kit box with the sticker on it in good condition for a different title (was in the cabinet).
$2 Neo Geo manual.
$149 in leftovers.

$141 total project cost. To become this machine here.


Tha_liks:
So far

$120 wood - home depot
$30  21" monitor - Craigslist
$150 laminate - home depot
$45 coin door - eBay
$15 florecent marquee light - lowes
$30 HP 2.1 speakers - eBay
$50 1/4 acrylic for marquee - lowes
$8 exhaust fans - eBay
$30 smart strip - amazon
$65 Bronz 1/8 glass for bezel - onedayglass
$80  marquee retainer, control panel clips, - happs
$250  control panel buttons, sticks , and ipac -  ultimarc
$350  computer  - tiger direct
$60  software - eBay
$??? Custom art work (still not there)

And I would say another $2000 on brand new tools as my only tools before this project were mechanic tools



jennifer:
     My last build, And not quite done....Is a Rock-ola 440, The parts, and options were quite hard to find, and its been a decade in the works, rebuilt everything.
Not a typical build however, more of a love affair.....$7138.00.
Woodshop Flunky:
My build cost just a little over $1k... but a friend gave me a sound system.  Everything was new except for the 17" CRT monitor and the sound system.  If I had bought my own sound... it would have cost around $1200.  :cheers:

TopJimmyCooks:
I built switchcade for well under $1000 - including roughly $100 extra spent on monitor rotation and probably $75 extra on the hardware for the swap panels.  I bought some nice used parts- 2.1 speakers, spinner, driving controls and trackball.  I also bought a new U360 and Ipac 2 so I didn't always go the cheapest way.  PC and display were donated by my Brother to the cause.  Rather than buy a $30 track ball mount plate, I made my own out of a scrap of sheet metal I already had. 

You don't have to spend $2500.  Unless you want newer 3d games to play and or Hyperspin with videos, there's really no need to spec out a new pc.  My dell SFF pc was purchased for $35 on ebay.  PC's with enough grunt to do the job are being placed in dumpsters as we speak.  I also did some painted artwork to save some $ on art.  It was definitely a budget build, at every turn I had the option to decide to spend more but elected not to. 

Man, that set of Mame Romz on DVD's from that guy on ebay set me back $200 though . . . . :laugh2:
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