just installed a removable bezel

[Gradius]

I've just installed a removable bezel on my particular setup for playing MAME. It's made of 5mm pvc with non-glossyvinyl black vinyl. I work as a sign-maker so I could cut the pvc and apply the vinyl myself. How the bezel keeps there is top secret / patent pending :D I've also added another controller: the almighty Ultraracer, great for racing games, with analogue buttons and a tiny and very precise wheel.

http://www.alvarezeninternet.com/adesktop/

Sorry the description in the webpage is in Spanish.

[mahuti]

Looks great, very clean.

Looks like somebody stole the rest of your cabinet though.

[whatzcrackn]

Looks great, very clean.

Looks like somebody stole the rest of your cabinet though.

  that was a good one

[DarkBubble]

Running the page through Google's translator, "MAME" became "SUCKS".

That's a great idea though, and looks nice (especially with one of my all-time favorites on the screen).  Perfect for those of us who don't have cabinets yet.  Nothing's worse than being reminded that you're on a PC.

[Flinkly]

wow, it's so clean...

as for the pic, where did you get that almighty small keyboard?

[Gradius]

MAME in Spanish is the first person singular subjunctive (and also a polite form of imperative) of the ver MAMAR, which means suck, but not in the sense of Windows sucks, but in the traditional meaning: suction. Here we do not pronounce the name of the emulator as meim, but as mame.

It's a Benq  usb minikeyboard, which is sold together with a mouse for laptops. I rarely use it, so I wanted something very small rather than practical. See the difference compared to the classic and still the best keyboard ever created, which I use in my other computer.

http://www.alvarezeninternet.com/temp/teclados.jpg

[Fozzy The Bear]

It's a Benq  usb minikeyboard, which is sold together with a mouse for laptops. I rarely use it, so I wanted something very small rather than practical. See the difference compared to the classic and still the best keyboard ever created, which I use in my other computer.
http://www.alvarezeninternet.com/temp/teclados.jpg

Oh! Now that is cool..... I'm off to trawl ebay and see if I can find one of those....  I've also got one of those chunky clicky IBM Keyboards, had it for years. Took me a long time to get used to modern keyboards after that. It now lives on my Mame machine.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

[brained]

Yo mame
tu mamaste
el mam

[Ghoward]

Looks great but why? Or not to the point bezels look great in cabs but not sat over a monitor on your desk.

Build a cab for this great looking bezel.

Gary

[Gradius]

I just prefer this setup because it's more practical: it's modular and I can rotate the tv manually whenever I want (building a cab with rotating cabinet is way to complex and the result is not always beautiful and authentic, which is the main purpose of a cabinet). I also considered the posibility of moving and removing the control panel (I hate fixed positions of the CP, which force me to play not completelly centered - haven't you ever think about that?). That bezel is just to hide the screen. Actually, if you look at it from the sides, you can see the tv-set. But I don't care about that, because I play in front of the tv. This design is centered in the player, not in looking like a real cab. Aesthetics was the last factor I considered when I designed this. My goals where: easy to build, confortable to use and rotation. I've also found another advantage in the posibility of placing the tv on the front part of the table (not inclined), which is great for watching movies. Actually, if one day I'd decided to build a I real cab, I would build two cabs, one horizontal and other one vertical, of course both sit-down cabinets.

Yo mame
tu mamaste
el mam

[darthbane2k]

trust me.. a REAL cab is better..

[leapinlew]

trust me.. a REAL cab is better..

agreed!