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Nerd Of Nerds:

hello! i have pretty much completed my first mame cab and i am well into the construction of my cocktail cab...i love mame ;D

sooo, long story short, my sister was talking about how boring her dorm room was (nothing to do...) so i suggested a mame cabinet...we got talking and she said that i should build one to loan to her and i could keep any money that people put into it...  so i was gonna just loan her one of mine for the school yeah...AFTER we decided that this was all a good idea she thought it might be good to tell me that whe was on the 3rd floor... :o wow...even a cocktail cab would be a pain in the ass to move up there... ::) soooo the idea passed and i went about my buisness...

until yesterday...there is a very mysterious arcade vendor in nebraska that is selling EVERYTHING they have...and i noticed a cabaret style ms. pac man cab with a centipede cab the same size next to it...i asked the guy how much it was he said it was 800 bucks...hmmm... a bit much...yikes...

but today i decided that it would be fun to build one...for my sisters dorm! are there any plans for cabaret style cabinets? i don't want a bartop style...cuz i am gonna keep it when she is done...so i want it to still be upright...well?

it doesn't HAVE to be ms. pac man (but i'd like it to be...)

pointdablame:

Just thought I'd chime in for a second and say that you can't charge people to play your MAME machine.  It's illegal, and could possibly grab the attention of someone at a place as big as a college (depending on the school size of course)

Just thought I'd let you know though.... don't wanna bring MAME into the legal limelight moreso that it is, now do we? ;)

spystyle:

Jelloslug has Tron cabaret plans :

http://www.jelloslug.mamehost.com/
(click cabrio)

There are mini Pac-Man and mini Defender style plans here : www.minimame.com

And you could simply scale/modify any of the cabs @ www.jakobud.com (It's a real American website)

As you've probably read in this forum, if weight is an issue build from plywood.

If it's going in a girl's dormroom keep the controls and menu super simple, and clearly labeled.

Dig it?
Craig



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--- Quote from: Nerd Of Nerds on July 26, 2004, 06:26:37 pm ---...there is a very mysterious arcade vendor in nebraska that is selling EVERYTHING they have...
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Where is the vendor located... it's not the LL on west O in lincoln is it?  


I set up a CP for a friends little brother to use on his pc in his dorm a few years ago (@ UNL)... he just kept a bank next to the CP .... "free will offering" quarter a game suggested "donation".

I agree with Pointdablame... You WILL DRAW ATTENTION (mostly unwanted)with a cab in a room that you are charging to play on....


Back to lurking....

spystyle:

I don't think you'd draw attention if it was a dedicated cab (one game only)

But what one game would be lucritave in a girl's dormroom?

Maybe one of the multi-game roms, like the "Namco Classics", it's one rom with several games.

Does anyone have a list of all the 100% working multi-roms?

I don't think we should flame the guy if he wants to make a coin-op cab, he could always purchase one of those legal roms on-line if it would keep him from getting scolded.

Just my opinion,
Craig


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