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so what got you into owning your own arcade game?

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deadkenndys1105:

Well it started with when someone showed me mame on this one emulation forum.  Then I was looking into mame and found this.  Then I build a mame cabinet.  Now I own a millipede and am looking into buying a robotron and a defender.

Apollo:

I was reading  a magazine (not gaming related) and there was an article about MAME and retro gaming. As an arcade addict from way back I did a little research, found this forum and well you know the rest.

Anubis_au:

I discovered MAME years ago, but didn't do anything with it. Then, in 2003, a mate of mine chanced upon an arcade cab (generic Aussie lowboy) at a garage sale, bought it, and converted it. I helped him do it, and promptly went and bought my own cab to convert. Sold it last year before travelling around the world.

Now that I am back home, I want to have a cab again. But this time, fully custom everything. And then I found BYOAC, and I was home :)

danny_galaga:


a friend showed me mame on his laptop. two years late it dawned on me how cool it was!

Malenko:

I wanted an arcade machine since the first time I ever played one. My dad made me an "arcade" stick out of my controller for commodore 64  and I played pacman endlessly (got up to the 5th key stage!)


Ive done 2 MAME cabs, one before I knew what I was doing. It was a ghastly job, a HUGE playstation 2 player arcade stick with 2 PSX2USB adapter and some tacky white marble shelf paper covering the whole thing, had a 25" TV a PC and a playstation (2?) in there. I still have a pic, just need to scan it, I warn you , its hideous and cheap looking. It worked, and I used it alot but it never felt like an arcade game and the thing kept breaking.


About 6 months after that I snagged a Track n Field style cab that had been mutilated into a marine game or something, it was awful.  I really put some elbow grease into it, fixed the messed up wood and made a new control panel and converted it into Street Fighter II : Championship edition and gave it to my friend as a birthday gift.


Now that I actually have some skills, Im converting a Pengo Cabinet into my MAME cab, since both my X-arcade and hot rod are broke (X-arcade broke being shipped back from my old house in Texas, the hotrod was like 7 years old and the controller board died) I'll be using an Ipac2 and doing my own CPO.  Once I get it all up and running I'll submit the project to Saint


I already have the coin mechs lit up, lol this is when the HotRod was the CPO, its still a work in progress




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