Author Topic: My New Cabinet...MORTAL KOMBAT 3 (Read 5016 times)

MK3FAN · « **on:** February 27, 2006, 05:42:20 pm »

Here is my finished MORTAL KOMBAT 3 Cabinet Project. It is a mame project only instead of the traditional MAME look, I Built MK3 as an homage to my favorite game of all time. I included some pics. Hope you like. Let me know what you think. Thanks - Mike.

MK3FAN · « **Reply #1 on:** February 27, 2006, 05:43:21 pm »

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MK3FAN · « **Reply #10 on:** February 27, 2006, 05:49:01 pm »

11, 12, 13, and last one. Any questions, let me know.

leapinlew · « **Reply #11 on:** February 27, 2006, 06:52:58 pm »

Looks good! Nice job.

Q*Bert_OP · « **Reply #12 on:** February 27, 2006, 08:23:09 pm »

Quote from: leapinlew on February 27, 2006, 06:52:58 pm

Looks good! Nice job.

What he said

Airswoop · « **Reply #13 on:** February 27, 2006, 10:04:22 pm »

Beautiful! Great job.

Wir3d · « **Reply #14 on:** February 28, 2006, 02:13:50 am »

Great job on the cab! where did you get all of your MK3 stickers at?

MK3FAN · « **Reply #15 on:** February 28, 2006, 03:17:05 am »

The sideart I got from classicarcadegrafix.com. All the control panel pieces, the overlay, the marquee, the front and side control panel box stickers and the bezel stickers all came in a MK3 restoration kit I got on e-bay.

MK3FAN · « **Reply #16 on:** February 28, 2006, 03:28:03 am »

The machine stayed this way for a while, then I got into MK2 pretty badly and just HAD to convert it to MK2. I had to drill out the run button through the metal MK2 control panel that I got NOS from e-bay and I added plexiglass cut to the size of the medallion sideart to keep it nice. Here are some pics. IT IS THE SAME MACHINE. This is a MAME cabinet that I built from scatch and I put version 1.0.2 on it and the full 8 DVD set of Roms. Can't play all of them because I have no trackball due to me wanting to make my mame cabinet look like a dedicated MK macine. I'll probably keep it this way for a while, but who knows.

HaRuMaN · « **Reply #17 on:** February 28, 2006, 05:15:48 am »

NOT trying to sound negative, your machine looks very nice, very well built... but isn't the side art on the MKII supposed to cover the whole side?

MK3FAN · « **Reply #18 on:** February 28, 2006, 10:19:08 am »

You are right. It DOES, but you could either get the medallion side art OR the full side art. When I ordered them, I didn't have the measurements of my machine and just ordered what I knew would fit.

Duster72 · « **Reply #19 on:** February 28, 2006, 11:28:48 am »

Nice work. MK2 is a much better game, and IMHO better looking cab.

SuperGunGuru · « **Reply #20 on:** February 28, 2006, 10:37:10 pm »

Very nicely done! I'm a big fan of MK2 and have a lot of memories playing it when I was growing up. I have a dedicated MK2 and it's lots of fun. Your cab looks very nice!

MK3FAN · « **Reply #21 on:** February 28, 2006, 10:38:36 pm »

Thanks Guru and everyone

The 80s Man · « **Reply #22 on:** February 28, 2006, 10:48:03 pm »

Dam good looking cab. Very nice work.

stellarola · « **Reply #23 on:** March 02, 2006, 12:29:00 am »

I'm very impressed with your cab. Nice woodworking skills!

MameMaster! · « **Reply #24 on:** March 02, 2006, 12:35:44 pm »

wow...that's a great job on a scratch built cab.

That's too funny though that you "downgraded" your cab to MK2 (converting your own cab!).....sweet. Nice job.

rlemmon · « **Reply #25 on:** March 02, 2006, 03:44:17 pm »

That looks incredible !

MK3FAN · « **Reply #26 on:** March 02, 2006, 11:04:44 pm »

Thanks everyone. I actually built the machine 2 inches taller than the stock dedicated cab because I am 6'3" and always had to bend over playing the actual one. So I built this one taller so I can stand up. Worked out great. I can take some more detailed pics if anyone wants to see the inside or is building a similar cab. Let me know. I ended up spending just over $2500 to build this cab including TWO mointors because my first one, the picture tube got crushed during shipment and UPS would not pay to replace it so I had to buy another one from Wells Gardner. That alone put me at around $1600. I also have a nintendo emulator with over 900 NES games, a SNES emulator with over 300 SNES games and various PC games on the machine as well. All total I have around 7500 games playable on various systems on the machine. I'll never say "There's nothing to do" ever again.

markrvp · « **Reply #27 on:** March 03, 2006, 02:53:57 am »

Excellent Cabinet!!! Great attention to detail.

gord · « **Reply #28 on:** April 27, 2006, 02:40:15 am »

Beautiful! That's amazing. One odd question, what kind of speakers are those? I love the way they look

Gunstar Hero · « **Reply #29 on:** April 27, 2006, 02:47:50 am »

Looks awesome, but you REALLY need the full sideart, which is IMO one of the best looking sidearts in the history of arcade cabs... Raiden just looks too bad---I'm attempting to get by the auto-censor and should be beaten after I re-read the rules-- with the lighting coming off of his hand IMO.

Wetworks · « **Reply #30 on:** April 27, 2006, 04:47:19 am »

Very nice!
Here is how I put a trackball in a custom CP for my MKII. Left the original untouched so I can just plug it back in. It was at tight squeeze but very playable.

Q*Bert_OP · « **Reply #31 on:** April 28, 2006, 03:11:53 am »

In my MK voice: OUTSTANDING!

MK3FAN · « **Reply #32 on:** April 29, 2006, 04:15:00 pm »

Thanks a lot everyone. Anyone have and shipping suggestions because I have to ship the machine from Hawaii to Kansas. Any special ways anyone knows of to pack it to minimize possible damage?

arcadefever · « **Reply #33 on:** April 29, 2006, 05:31:23 pm »

great cab !!!!!!!!!!!!

goosok · « **Reply #34 on:** May 08, 2006, 05:45:48 pm »

Well done! Very professional wood job!


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