41" JAMMA Sega Megalo 410 Mame Cabinet

[mAdSmuRf]

For anyone that was interested in the new cabinet I was getting and I had spoken with them in the past about it... It just came in... I have been really busy working on a LOT of other stuff lately here though so I have not had much time to play with it yet though.

Although for anyone interested, here are a couple of sneak peek shots of the cabinet just laying around till I update my web site with all the new info.

41" Sega Megalo410 Projection Jamma cabinet with 15/25/31khz switchable.

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/madsmurf/megalo/

Questions & Comments are always welcome... thanks much.

Till later,

mS

[mr_spark1e]

    WOW!      

That is awesome.  Do you mind me asking what that set you back.  I am still looking for a sit-down cab, but I've never seen that one.  I'm still dealing with the shipping problems of being on the east coast.

[Agent Davis]

That looks badass dude.  I think it would be cool to put it on a platform that would have a crank that could lift it by cranking so you could play it standing up too.  In any case a cabinet like that is really cool in that you can just put a couch a few feet away and hook some consoles up to it too to play or watch TV.  To me, stand up cabs sit to high to sit back on a couch or something and play on or watch tv.

[mAdSmuRf]

mr_spark1e:

It set me back a wee bit... not as much as I though it would... but it was well worth the investment.  Even just for me to watch my Anime on  Shipping was not that bad though as I found another frieght company to do it from CA to FL rather then the generally used ones.  I paid $250 rather than $400 everyone else wanted.

Agent Davis:

To my surprise, I guess quite a few people actually put Japanese sitdown cabinets on a platform to raise them up higher, but from what I have seen, they all make it look like crap.  Let alone it takes away from the whole point of having a sitdown.  The standup cabinet I used to have was nice, but after a while it's nice to sit down and stools are still not all that comfortable.  As for this one, I have it across the room and when I sit back on the couch or LazyBoy it is awsome for watching DVD's or whatever you put on it.  It is at a perfect height where the joysticks do not even get in the way of watching.

So to you both, I thank you greatly for your kind words... please check the web page shortly for all the goodies and lowdown that comes from it

I just can not wait to get under way with fixing it up and showing it off... it is really a very nice cabinet that pictures on the Net just do not give it justice to.

Thanks again,

mS

[Billabong]

That's nuckin futs dude! Really nice!!


Later,
Billabong

[ZaxxonForever]

Wow... that's the coolest cab!! Does that play MAME games or was it made for arcade games? Easy to convert to MAME??

[AlmtyBob]

I've seen those cabs in LA before, and they are VERY sweet.  Is there room in there for a full size PC case?

[mAdSmuRf]

Zaxxon Forever:

It's a standard Jamma Cab so yeah it plays Mame or any Jamma Arcade PCB's.  As for converting it to Mame, I have it connected for controls via a J-Pac and the Video through a Broadcast quality scan converter so I get crystal clear Windows operation on the screen.  Well @ 640x480 anyways.  800x600 is okay, but 1024x768 is not very legible.  Yet since anything I would be running such as emulation or most any other game runs fine @ 640x480 that is great.  

Even games such as Quake III etc... if you run them @640x480  on an arcade monitor @ 15khz it doesn't have all the pixles a computer monitor has so everything bleeds together... smoothing everything out, making it look great.  DVD's run beautifully.  And even surfing the web from across the room on a couch is not so shabby, but not up close, unless you want your eyes to bleed from the size.

AlmtyBob:

Yeah, you actually see a few of these here and there in the arcades in the US.  Sega actually imported these here towards the end of production as far as I have heard.  If you are lucky you can even pick one of these off at auction I think.  But not too cheap as these go early and people bid higher then.

As for room inside, I will take more pictures as I have time to start really working on the cabinet to liven it up.  You would be surprised at the size of this think on how little space there is for anything else.  The main boards and electronics inside for the projection tubes, Mirror, etc. take up a lot of room.  There is enough room if I wanted to put a PC inside without a case and mounted on a board or whatever, but I will have to see what I decide later since I have it hooked to a Surround cabinet now anyways for Karaoke, I might as well just get a nice Black desktop Case to put in a side cabinet.  Beats me.  Will be more on the web page shortly.

Thanks for the interest, hope this helped.

mS

[RingDawg]

WOW man, that thing is BAD ASS!!!  I see you live in the Tampa Bay area, you want to sell that to anyone if local and how much?

[tetsu96]

Now we're just bragging a bit about our cabs...  

Seriously though, I didn't know that it did 31KHz - you should be thinking about using a Dreamcast w/VGA adapter or an X-Box with that bad girl  - I'm sure it would rock big time...

And hurry up with Jeff's site, it hardly looks like you're updating it.  ;P

[Lilwolf]

What brand scan converter will go down to 15hz?

I would LOVE to be able to use my 19" arcade CRT in windows!

And NICE cab!  And you know how much trouble I would get into if I brought that into my house!  My wife would KILL me if I my cabinet was that big!

[mAdSmuRf]

RingDawg:

I tried emailing you and it came back not receivable so if you are interested, send ME an email and we can talk.

Tetsu96:

I am going to be playing with the 31khz switch later as I find time... main thing is I will have to build an external switch to go back and forth between to Resolutions used to keep the convenience level at a friendly place.  As for a website for Jeff, I am working on a Database and had many other issues keeping me busy.

Lilwolf:

Go to Ebay and on the main page at the top left in the search field just type in "Scan Converter"  You will find a lot of em usually.  Try to stay away from the cheapo units that you can get for a couple hundred new.  Stick with names like Extron or Scan Do which retail for a couple thousand each and if you're lucky, you can pick one up for a few hundred.  Make sure to read up and do research on what you are bidding on though to find out what outputs it has and what input resolutions it supports.  As for the size of this cab?  It is not all that big when compared to my old American R-type cab... I will snap off some comparison shot later with the cabinet next to something familiar

Thanks again to everyone showing interest.

mS

[RingDawg]

Sorry, bad address.  I was hoping you would post it on here.  I emailed you the rest of my questions.  Please email me back.  If not, please post cabinet dimentions and weight.

[mAdSmuRf]

Umm, no email yet, but here is the info on the cabinet as far as size and weight.

Width 890mm, Depth 1180mm, Height 1630mm, Weight 143kg

Width 36in, Depth 47in, Height 64in, Weight 316lbs

I just barely got it in my main doorway with about 2mm free space width wise.

Seriously though, this is my new toy, and if you really are interested in purchasing it let me know as I will have to see if I can get any more.  I was originally going to purchase 2 because a friend wanted one, but he ended up having to pay taxes this year  Ah well, let me know.  Later.

mS