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SirPeale:
http://www.pealefamily.net/tech/newmame/index.php?cat=6

Well, I've been working on this in my spare time (what little of it I actually have) and its' nearly complete.  It's just a Dynamo cabinet, but when I got it was completly empty.



Still needs monitor glass and the rest of the wiring hooked up, but other than that it's done.  Here's what it looked like when I got it.

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Total cost for this project?  Under $100.

[*]Cabinet - free.  No back door.  Luckily the control panel and JAMMA harness as well as an iso xformer were still inside.
[*]Monitor - free.  Some monitor I can't identify.  Was given for free on RGVAC, all I had to do was pick it up.  It was blurry, so he thought there was something wrong with it.  Turns out the focus was off.  The only other problem is that there's a problem with the neck board.  It comes up fine, but picture dies off when it heats up.  If you press lightly on the board, it comes right back up.  Connection problem of some sort, but I haven't figured it out.
[*]J-PAC - $70 (the most expensive part, except for the time involved)
[*]Back door - free.  A friend dumpster dived a piece of plywood for me.
[*]Blue joysticks - $1.00 each.  Came in a lot of sticks I bought on eBay.
[*]Blue buttons - $1.25 each.
[*]Black start buttons - $4.00
[*]Locks - $4.00 each x 3
[*]Black vinyl - $3.00
[*]Computer - free.  The motherboard was given to me by a member here a year ago.  Has onboard video (with NON-SHARED MEMORY!!!) via ATI Rage 3D, and Crystal sound.  It's not in the cab yet, but will be running DOS 7, since I have the drivers for the sound.

The marquee is not staying.  For one, the one in there is too small. I just put it in to make it look more like a cab.  I've got a request in the artwork forum, and then I'm off to Kinko's.  For sideart, I thought about using the Classic Arcade montage.  We'll see.

And yes, there is no T Molding on the right.  I took it off just before I snapped this picture.  Replacing it with new t-molding.

Edgedamage:
Ahhh refreshing to look at a nice simple control panel.

SirPeale:
I was going to put more buttons on there in a Mortal Kombat format (I was going to convert it to a Mortal Kombat cab with real boardset) but the start buttons were in the way.

If I could find NOS Dynamo CPs and cut my own...

Acids:

--- Quote from: Edgedamage on April 17, 2004, 10:14:09 pm ---Ahhh refreshing to look at a nice simple control panel.

--- End quote ---

I agree, uncluttered control pannels are becomming rare.

SirPeale:
I may not be keeping the joysticks that are on there.

I hooked up a PC last night to give it a test run (and test my wiring) and you really have to wail on the sticks to get any respose out of it.

I'm going to try to replace the switches, but failing that it's going to be black bat tops.  

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