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Mark70:
Holy jesus.  Where's the NBA, we're opening a mame franchise.  Every BYOAC member and their family are the height of Miami Heat Forewards.

On the cabinet:

Too bad about the glitch in the measurements.  Good that you made the best of it.

I see some paint runs there in the CP shot.  I suggest more patience when you're working.  Work more slowly and you won't have to "go with" measurement errors, or mistakes like paint runs.

johnperkins21:
Dude, I love this cabinet! More specifically I love the fact that you rolled with the mistake and continued on. The fact that you finished is a testiment to how totally awesome it is to have one of these. I hope to start on my cab in about 10 months (waiting for new house to be built), and will definitely use you as an inspiration to continue even in the face of adversity.  :cheers:

John

crsdawg:
i think a great use of the space would be to add a second monitor above the main one. you could set it up to display game information(ie. marquee, title screenshot, control layout from controls.dat......), there are many builds out there that do this with smalllcds. you could also emulate playchoice dual screen cabs with the extra screen.

Barry Barcrest:
That is the towering inferno of cabs dude...

Personally i think you should rip the monitor out and mount a flat panel widescreen TV in there set up for playing vertical games. Man that would be huge it looks like you designed it to be so tall for such a purpose. Do it you know you want to... That would be the mother of all MR Do cabs then  ;)

brack:

--- Quote from: shawnzilla on February 02, 2006, 11:49:43 pm ---
The tallness was totally unintentional. I was just following Saint's plans out of the book and before I realized it, "poof!" I had a 9 foot tall cabinet!

The cab sides were my first cuts, and once that was done I saw how tall they were and it was too late. I did measure my cuts, but I was thinking in inches and not converting to feet. So, I just went with it and made a very tall cab.


--- End quote ---

I almost had a similar incident with the same plans.  Fortunately, it jumped out at me before time for cutting. 

Note to saint for future editions of your book - arrows for the measurement of 74" on the sides that indicate the overall height would help prevent future mishaps.  I believe that Shawn had interpreted as I had initially as being the height before the 45 degree angle cut.

Note to everyone else - quoting my old high school chemistry teacher - 'use the reasonability test'.  It saved me from building a 9 foot arcade, but apparently not from calculating the molecular weight of helium as 14 kg.  :)

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