Universal retro cabinet

[Cisek]

Hi

My project is very minimalistic and it is for all people that want a great experience with minimal costs and without any special buliding skills. I think my soultion is capable of decent compromise for combining retro consoles and arcade gaming.

The idea was to be able to play arcade games candy cab style (groovy mame, dreamcast), but also to play consoles 8, 16, 32 bit consoles with joypads. Earlier I converted MK2 cabinet to mame, however my living room is not very big, and I just lacked the possibility to sit comfortably on my couch and play with joypad.

I decided to invest in B&O MX7000 tv, as it has many nice features like slim 26" tube design, active speakers, great picture, possibility to angle a little bit backward, and grey glass filter for tube radiation. It is also tate'able.

So I got this tv set really cheap and after some time I bought used tv cabinet. The results were already great:





But I wanted to play it arcade style also, so all I had to add was a drawer with slide (must install t-molding on this) and put MX7000 to backsit position (or tate) which is really easy:





With this easy setup I am able to play comfortably console games from chair with joypad or arcade stick on my knees, or play arcade games with putting arcade stick on sliding drawer and turining telly back a little or tate.

It is not as flashy as japanese cabinets with their cases, but It doesn't feel ghetto, becuase of the great B&O MX7000 finishing. It just works great and I can connect via scart rgb whatever console I want.

[yotsuya]

Wait, that's a TUBE TV?

[Cisek]

sorry for my version of english 
I meant crt tv of course

[Slippyblade]

He wasn't jumping on your use of the word "tube".  That's perfectly acceptable.  I think he was just shocked at how NARROW that is for a CRT!  That thing is incredibly slim for being a tube.  What's it weigh?

[yotsuya]

Oh yeah, I was stunned to see such a thin CRT. Sign me up!!!!!!

[johnrt]

That's interesting. Probably a BeoVision MX7000 or similar. They are quite common also here in Norway. There's a lot of them on finn.no:
http://www.finn.no/finn/torget/resultat?keyword=MX7000

[yotsuya]

Those are BAD ASS. I'd be using those in cabs (especially custom gun ones) if we had them here.

[Peabo]

Those are BAD ASS. I'd be using those in cabs (especially custom gun ones) if we had them here.

You can still find Samsung Slim Fit CRT's in the states, these are 1080i capable.  I have one tucked in a back closet that I got for free, just waiting a project to use it on.  Mine's a 27" and weighs in at 110lbs

[yotsuya]

Those are BAD ASS. I'd be using those in cabs (especially custom gun ones) if we had them here.

You can still find Samsung Slim Fit CRT's in the states, these are 1080i capable.  I have one tucked in a back closet that I got for free, just waiting a project to use it on.  Mine's a 27" and weighs in at 110lbs

Cool. I'll have to keep an eye out for one.

[Cisek]

The great thing with MX7000 is it is not only slim, but it has also great speakers!
Personally I don't thing that any hd crt tv capable of 720p/1080i will work for cabinets, because all of them are 100 hz chassis. They won't work with lowres 240p 15 khz signals, which was my aim.

I have also B&O MX5500 from 1989 and it looks very like a hantarex polo tube, but with better contrast, so can also recommend that one.

Here is a good review of this unit: