Hi guys!
I have finished my long term project!
Years ago I bought a defective ripped apart Sega Virtua Striker 2 cabinet off eBay. I have transformed it into a 2 player vertical MAME cab. It was an on and off hobby of mine for the past three years. I put a lot of time to customizing the frontend layout to my personal needs as well, but that part doesn’t show in the pictures.
Now the cab has found it’s final place in my home cinema room. The only place my wife allowed me to put it.
But I didn’t wanted that thing in the living room either.
Take a look at the construction work, from the beginning to the final result. It can’t keep up to some of you guys work, but I think it isn’t the crapiest either.
Chopped that thing in half. The main reason for this is because I needed to reduce the height of the overall cab. The final place for the cab is next to a „Dachschräge“. I have no idea what it is called in English.
and the positive side effect is that you can take the cab apart and that makes it a lot easier for transport.
I wanted a CRT inside the cab, for the authentic look and feel. But I recommend ripping an old TV apart only for people who know what they are doing. It is kind of high voltage involved.
Routing MDF is a dusty thing.
Placed some instructions for the frontend on the control panel layout. But I wanted it to be as intuitive as possible. So, when you take your hands off the controls, everything will go back to normal. You have to push and hold the buttons to see the flyer or the cab and marquee artwork and so on. You can zoom in and out on the artwork, because of the low resolution CRT.
I wanted to have available as much information about a game as there is. So you can access the following information from the frontend:
- game history
- game flyer
- cabinet and marquee picture
- year of release
- manufacturer
- ROM name
- ROM version
- controls
- number of players
- How often you have played a game
I like to explore the available games. It’s like a museum of old arcade games!
And finally two Spintrak spinners.