Project YAMM - Humble.. yet deadly!

[Xenepp]

Most of you probably guessed what YAMM stands for (no you filthy swines!) yep, it's Yet Another Mame Machine 

I was surfing Ebay looking for some JAMMA PCBs when I saw it, £90 with 3 games and better still.. it was just 5 minutes down the road! Of course, I HAD to have it

It has a few dings and the sticks were buggered but it came with a box of bits including to working sticks so in they went so I could give this baby a test run! The monitor is a Hantarex MTC 9000 and is in really good shape. Might have to check the focus but other than that it's A1. The coin mech is great too so overall, for £90 including 3 games (one of which was Final Fight!!) I got REALLY lucky!

Right now it's got a JAMMA 2 game selection unit installed (I hate those things) but that's going, leaving a single loom to which I'll attach a finger board breaking out to a P4 1.7ghz and PCI-E ArcadeVGA and Mini-PAC.

I'm leaving the coin mech as it is and *might* add a sneaky credits button under the CP. While I love to slam in 99 credits and get gaming, I do feel like a cheat and hey, it'll make one kick ass piggy bank! I want to keep it as close to the real arcade feel as possable so no fancy boot screens or Jukebox functions, no monitor transplants and no emulators other than MAME will go in there.

I had plans to extend the CP and have a trackball etc in there but I want it to look just like it would have down the local arcade so for now, everything will stay as it is barr the CP layout. It's got fruit buttons.. I really hate that.

All the parts are on order and once they arrive you'll see some action. I'm going to upload a video tour of the thing once it's running MAME how I want it too.

So the running total so far:

Cabinet: £96
P4 CPU and motherboard: £39.50
PC PSU: £9.99
1GB RAM, DVD-ROM, 10GB HD: £FREE (stolen from my recently upgraded desktop PC)
ArcadeVGA+Mini-PAC+Some Cables and tools: £107

Current total: £252.49

I'll be chronicaling it here anyway, I'll get some pics up tomorrow of it as it is now in the bedroom (untill the new lounge is ready). In the mean time, here's a pic from the Ebay auction. More soon.



 -Joel

[leapinlew]

That thing looks great already...

Nice design.

[Apollo]

Awesome deal on the cabinet man, that's a cool design

[Crafty]

Fantastic Pick-up....

There should be more of this.