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coldrain:

I have to be honest and say I cheated a little SILVER, I found an old cocktail cabinet at a boot fair and have been converting it to a MAME machine.

I have been looking at obtaining an upright cabinet as well and have the same problem TEEF TWO, after reading through some of the posts on this site I have come to the conclusion that if you live in the USA it's possible to just walk to your nearest auction and pick one up for $100 /

Minwah:

It is difficult to find a MAME-able cab in the UK.  My definition of 'MAME-able' being a non-dedicated machine in reasonable shape.  For the most part all you'll find is generic jamma cabs, of which the *vast* majority are either hideous, or horrible.  These cabs have a particular trend of having very shallow control panels at quite a steep angle - wrist ache in seconds  :P

So I decided to build my machine, based on the design of a 'real' machine I really like (Atari System 1).  While I have been working on it (on & off) for nearly 1 year, the main construction was done in a few months of part-time work (I have a fulltime job and like to drink at weekends ;) ).  So if you can find somewhere to do it, and have some tools then I say build one!

Have fun either way :

arcaic:

I'm in Milton Keynes.

On the JAMMA cabinet issue I will soon have a cabinet I gave to my father inlaw for all the grandchildren to play on coming back as he is moving away to the IoW.

Its just about the most mameable cab I have seen. Its an Apollo JAMMA cabinet in reasonable shape ;) and isn't the prettiest cab I've seen but it has all access from the front, rotatable monitor (and I mean properly rotatable - you dont have to unbolt it or anything you just open the front and turn the monitor), scan coil switches at the front, video controls at the front (I think) , fairly flat control panel and I think its fairly deep so reasonable space for a two player setup. It also seperates into a top and bottom half so can be much easier to transport or get upstairs.

If you can live with the looks then it would be great for mame. If anyone wants to email me contact details I'll let you know when I have it back at my place and up on ebay.

If your in a rush then probably the best place to look for JAMMA cabs could be here.. If anyone has/knows of cheap ones then we in there do  :D

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/ukvac/

I think that part of the problem is that anyone that has a supply of decent JAMMA cabs is maming them themselves and siting/selling them ::)

Cheers

Andy

markb:

I'm from Newcastle and I know of nobody around here who has even heard of Mame let alone got their own cabinet.

Cabinets up here are like hen's teeth and almost impossible to get your hands on. I phoned every arcade in the North East trying to get just a case, however all I found out was that arcade owners SCRAPPED HUNDREDS OF THEM.
Seriously I got talking to an arcade owner on the phone and when Playstations first came around the owners just binned all of their machines and filled the space with slots. ARRRRGGGHH.

In the end I built my own and could take enough orders from friends to build one for them to keep me going until next year.

I still get sleepless nights after what that arcade owner told me when i see an original space invaders going for almost a grand!

Minwah:


--- Quote from: markb on October 04, 2004, 03:30:53 pm ---Cabinets up here are like hen's teeth and almost impossible to get your hands on. I phoned every arcade in the North East trying to get just a case, however all I found out was that arcade owners SCRAPPED HUNDREDS OF THEM.
Seriously I got talking to an arcade owner on the phone and when Playstations first came around the owners just binned all of their machines and filled the space with slots. ARRRRGGGHH.

--- End quote ---

Shame isn't it  :'(  I've been to quite a few arcades recently and all you see is gamblers and about 1 game - which is 9 times out of 10 knackered :(

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