Project : Dragon Ballcade
Joysticks : Sanwa JLF-TP-8YT
Buttons : Convex classic LED Zippy ultralight 20g
Interface : iPac 2 players
Monitor : Dell 24 inch U2410F
Computer : Mac Mini 2012
Software : Windows 10 + instaboot to Launchbox/Bigbox
Build time : Beginning of April 2018 - end of August 2018
Based on : Edekoning's Magneto build :
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,119175.0.htmlMotivation for the build :
As I grew up in the eighties and loved electronic games, I played a lot of arcade games. I turned 40 a few months ago and as I grow older, I look back with more and more fondness to those days of my long gone youth
. So I’ve gotten it into my head that I wanted an arcade cabinet to relive some of the great memories of playing arcade games. Especially games as Galaxian / Wonderboy / Outrun / Operation Wolf / Street Fighter 2 / Mortal Kombat 1, 2, 3 / Killer Instinct / The Simpsons / Double Dragon / Golden Axe and others were some of my favorites.
I didn’t really have concrete plans for it, I just did some searching around on the net for arcade cabinets and found some vendors that sold them. I didn’t really think I would ever seriously get one but I showed it to my wife and instead of rolling her eyes, what was what I expected, she was like “heeeey that’s cool, that would look great in our hallway!”. Which caught me off guard...
Don’t get me wrong, I have a cool wife that never tries to forbid me anything. But I value her opinion and most of the time, she is my tether to reality when I have a crazy plan ;-).
So I started searching for cool arcade cabinets. Which cost a bit of money and most of the time had the 2000/3000 in 1 Jamma boards. I really didn’t feel like buying on of those. I also wanted to be able to play fairy recent fighters on it like Street Fighter IV or the new Killer Instinct so I started reading about building one myself. That’s how I stumbled upon this forum which was of great assistance to me. I’ve read about various builds and especially Edekoning’s Magneto build thread was awesome! I’ve build the cabinet by using his plan. The Sketchup plans were very detailed although I went for a bit different dimensions.
I’m an IT guy, not a woodworker so I had to learn some stuff but I loved every minute of making it. It was a very fun project!
I’m doing this project thread a bit different I guess because most people seem to start a thread at the beginning of their build. But I never got around to it during the actual build so I’m posting the entire process at once. Well I'll add a finished picture to this post and gradually add build pics in following posts.