My First Cabinet Build - Aurora Gaming Station

[Moleburt]

 I just wanted to share with the forum what my first full cabinet build turned out like. I am not a handy person by any means, but am very proud of the fact that I built this by myself, with the exception of a few things. I am still fine tuning all of the lighting with LEDBlinky and fixing any issues I find while playing games or anything. I am lucky enough to work in a print shop so I was able to print and install my own graphics. I used the design of the "Pathways" cabinet and "Flynns Arcade" that I saw in the arcadecontorls.com forums and used that as my starting point for the look. I'm really proud of the way it turned out and love the way it looks.

I Still have some little things I want to do, get slip rings for the rgb wires on the joysticks to keep thing from tangling (unless someone has a different suggestion). I also in the future would like to switch to using 2 PACLed64's and a iPAC 4, I think I could lay those out better and wire manage better with those (my wire management left a lot to be desired with my iPacUltimate and 1 PACLed64, but it works). In the future I may switch to wireless controllers rather than wired for console games that use them, this would also solve the issue of retroarch being difficult to assign device order to. Other than those things I don't know what else I would change with this current build.

I am running my old pc as the emulation machine, with some upgraded parts to make it run some things a little better, here is this rigs specs:

    i3-9100F 3.6Ghz
    Geforce GTX 970 SSC 4GB
    16 GB RAM
    256 GB SSD
    1TB Storage Drive
    Gigabyte B365M Motherboard
    Liquid Cooling for CPU
    DIYPC Cuboid-R Black/Red tower

Let me know what you think, was happy to finally be able to share my cabinet!

I couldn't attach all the images, but I put them all in the Launchbox forums https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/54244-my-first-cabinet-build-aurora-gaming-station/

[bobbyb13]

I like it.
Envious of your graphics capabilities!

I think I'm about to run into device assignment issues on a project myself.
Stable controller IDs seems to be the silver bullet.

Bobby

[meyer980]

That thing would do any RGB loving PC Gamer proud! A good mix of not too flashy but still lit up. Good looking build!

I personally don't see the need for gamepads on a standup arcade like that, but to each their own. You can definitely tell a lot of work went into it.