Homemade Arcade on a budget

[evilfred]

100% homemade, from cheapest possible materials and components.
Possible cost all in all: 1000 Swedish Kronor= 108$

Running different Mame emulators (Windows7) with MaLa <3 frontend

• 4:3 fast 1ms samsung screen = 5$
• Old Laptop with Nvidia graphic = 20$
• Paint, chipboard and scrapwood = 10$
• printed Bezel and controlpanel art = 15$
• Ebay Joystick parts = 45$
• Led strip and scrapspeakers = 13$

Blueprint from sketshup 3d warehouse








































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[johnrt]

Nice! 

I really didn't think it was possible building an UPRIGHT for 1000 SEK (or NOK). You proved me wrong! Maybe I should try something similar once, cause this hobby can be ridiculously expencive.

[pbj]

Looks much better than the investment you have in it.  Nice work.

[evilfred]

Nice! 

I really didn't think it was possible building an UPRIGHT for 1000 SEK (or NOK). You proved me wrong! Maybe I should try something similar once, cause this hobby can be ridiculously expencive.

thanx!   

Yes i know all about the cost of this hobby and as always there is super accurate replicas and pre built cabinets for the true Arcade gamers wallet. But i thought it would be a long good winterproject last year, trying to make it as cheap as possible, and it was much harder than i thought!

[evilfred]

Looks much better than the investment you have in it.  Nice work.

  Thanx! i liked how it came out, looks cheap, are cheap ....but works well! Maybe that inspires someone else to make their own stuff with things they already got at home or easily could pick up on the "flea market"

[markc74]

I love this cab - it looks like a lot of fun and begs to be played (usually something skipped in the drive to create the 'perfect' replica/ do-it-all cab).

Some really nice lines and woodworking going on too 

[harveybirdman]

I'm a fan...


Classic shape is awesome! 


I've seen guys churn out less appealing crap spending 20x that amount.

[evilfred]

harveybirdman
You making me blush here. 



markc74
Thanx! Its was the whole idea besides the low budget goal. play play play for both me and my friends. And learning the kids what real classic gaming is all about!