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Hurray Banana:
I built my first cab over about 3-4 weeks, but its since been tinkered with and butchered during a series of experiments >:D so I could decide how to build my next one. It's now in a bit of a rough state but playable, I need to get round to making a new one.

I have since started a cocktail, cut and set up the sides and bottom and routed everything then sort of got distracted, its been sat in my garage in pieces for over 8 months don't get the time at the moment to do any work on it.



--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on January 26, 2007, 09:35:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: rackoon on January 26, 2007, 09:28:02 pm ---YET, I'M HAVING A GOOD TIME DOING IT! :cheers:

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That's the whole point.... I took over a year building my first cab, and it's a bit like frankenstien, in that the parts keep beeing changed and improved. I've just finish my actual CP. I've had a temporary one on there for over six months.

But the point is that it's fun to build things.... It doesn't matter how long it takes.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

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I agree with Fozzy the tinkering is the best bit!
rackoon:
I build in spurts. This usually happens when I sit down to play a retro game like Joust and get to level ten then the shortcomings of playing the game on a keyboard really catch up to you. The fact is that ya need a real arcade joystick and real arcade buttons to kick serious ass on most of these games.

Right now I'm sadly looking at a box full of joysticks, buttons, trackballs, and a old Pac Man coin door. :'(

I'm glad I dont have a working CP because if I had a working panel it would take even longer to finish my cab because I would spend so much more time playing when I could be working. :hissy:
squirrellydw:
about 3 months planing, March will be 1 year of building and hope to be be done by April/May.  I couldn't be happier, it's taken a lot longer than I thought buy I haven't messed up yet and don't plan to.
miles2912:
Read a little on and off for 6 months then started seriously planning.  Took about 2 months of serious planning and getting the basic parts (KB encoder, joysticks and buttons) then another 4 months of building slowly and testing.  I bet that for every hour of building I spent an hour playing with software and settings.

Don
spacies:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on January 26, 2007, 10:47:15 pm ---I build pretty quick. Like, not Spacies quick or Knievel quick, but I dont take that long. My last cabinet took about 2 weeks. My first one took 5 days. Then I redid it and it took another couple days.

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Heh,

8 hours work on one of these : http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=60783.msg602638#msg602638   cocktail and it is 100% finished.

Scratch built Uprights take about 2-3 days.



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