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Moe's Arcade - My First MAME Cabinet FINISHED!

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BradC:
My joysticks and buttons FINALLY arrived yesterday. If I had known the joysticks didn't come with the bolts I would have picked some up, but now I have to make another trip to the hardware store tonight. No big deal since there's a small one on the corner of my street, but I'm getting really anxious to make sure my template is good before I drill and cut the new CP.

I plan to work on this tomorrow afternoon (going car shopping in the morning) so I'll post some pics once I get these installed.

On the software side, I've been loading the emulators and roms onto the PC. I bought a 300GB hard drive for it last weekend and installed XP and the emus. I finally managed to get MAMEWah to recognize all of my roms for the different emulators. Now I just need to figure out which graphic layouts I want for each of the emulators. Also I still need to figure out how to install and configure Daphne. I've got copies of Dragon's Lair 1 & 2 and Space Ace that already come with thier own emulators on the disc, so maybe I'll just configure them as separate Emulators within MAMEWah and scrap Daphne altogether. That way I won't have to configure all the pointers for each game and what-not.

I had the brilliant idea to install LEGO Star Wars (since it runs full screen and would be fun to play with the joystick and buttons) but the video card I have in there won't support it. :( It's just a cheapie I bought from eBay. The machine is a Dell desktop (sideways, not a tower config) so it REQUIRES a half-height APG card and mounting bracket. I may go with the Radeon 9250 (which I used to own in another machine) as I know that will run it. Or I could just remove the top half of the casing, but either way that will likely be a later upgrade.

BradC:
Spent a little bit of time this weekend drilling out the new Oak CP and making sure I can fit everything on it. I bought a 1/2" countersink bit but the botls I bought ended up having a 3/4" head. So I'm going to need to go pick up a bigger countersink bit, then I can lower the bolt heads and try to make them flush.



Took me a bit to get everything right, but it all fits. Next I will remove everything and sand down the CP. If I can get it looking nice then I'll stain it. I sanded a piece of the back and it doesn't look very good. It looks like however they treated it at the factory was probably to sand it and then coat it with something. If I can't get it all stripped and looking good sanded then I will prime it and order the CP overlay.

After that, I'll finish configuring the PC and then make a backup image of the base configuration in case I need to reload it at some point.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Oak is really, really stinky when it's being burned by a spade bit. :dizzy:

solid187:
It's gonna be sharp.  That's a tough call between the oak CP and the Simpson's overlay.  I love that Simpson's artwork you have there.  Can't wait to see more pics. 

8way:
A problem you will run in to if you decide to stain it is, the wood putty or whatever you use the fill the holes from countersinking the bolts will show up after staining. And that’s really too many holes for it not to be noticeable. If you really want the wood grain, then just use some wood grain laminate. Personally I would get rid of all that wood grain and go with some color and artwork. But that’s just me. Good luck and looking forward to seeing the progress.

BradC:
I hadn't thought about the countersink holes if I went with stain. I guess I could leave them uncovered, but then I'd have 12 bolt heads showing through on top. Tough decision, I'll have to mull it over.

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