"A Barrel of Kong" - A Bar Height themed Cocktail Cab [FINISHED]

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TheShaner:
The only hangup I think I would have, other than the finite game list, would be the actual menu system. How is that? I havent found a good video of the interface, but I hear it is craptacular.

opt2not:

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--- Quote from: TheShaner on May 29, 2013, 01:56:22 pm ---Do you know what the difference is between Jelly and Jam?

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I'm scared to answer this.

I went with Jamma because it worked out well on the Little Ms. Pac-Man build and I think of these cocktail builds as very casual gaming cabs. I like the cheap virtually zero-config nature of the boards, that you can just flick on the power and leave it for people to use on their own. It plays the games well enough that your every day person wouldn't notice any shortcomings in performance.

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I am a fan of wiring cabinets, including mame cabs to the JAMMA standard. It's a clean, self-contained solution of getting your wiring hooked up through-out the cab. Keeps it neat.
Also gives you the option of potentially putting original PCB's in your cabinet. The only downside for that is that you'd need a scaler to connect original PCB's to that LCD.

Either way, it's a clean organized solution and not very hard to hook up. Bob Roberts has a really good write-up tutorial of hooking up JAMMA from scratch.

Vigo:

--- Quote from: opt2not on May 29, 2013, 02:39:58 pm ---I am a fan of wiring cabinets, including mame cabs to the JAMMA standard. It's a clean, self-contained solution of getting your wiring hooked up through-out the cab.

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:) Also a good method to mame a commercial cab without needing to gut it.

Maximus:
Ordered the glass today. this was a difficult choice, I could either go cheap and snag an Ikea coffee table off Craigslist for $30 which would give me a perfectly good 29.5" 1/4" thick tempered glass top, or I could get all anal about the specific look and diameter of the build and pay $84 inc tax n ship for a new 27" diameter 1/2" thick piece with a nice 1" bevel polished edge.

Truth be told I'm sure either option would be just fine, but I have a feeling this cab may end up staying in the house after all, the wife really likes it, as do many friends and the fact it doubles as a nice piece of bar furniture raises the odds of it staying.

So needless to say I took the picky route and got the more expensive solution.

yotsuya:
How's the stability on that thing? A wild game of Pac-Man won't tip it, will it?

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