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martymcfly:

Hi all..

I am very new here but my desire to create a MAME cabinet has been strong for over 8 years now, and I recently, finally, purchased a cabinet...




Any advice for a complete noob on MAME conversion?   I intend to sell the pcb board, etc on ebay so someone can restore an original machine.   This one is not an original but rather a Mercs conversion.

_) (V) (-):

The first thing you'll need to do is ensure that fridge is filled with beer.
 :cheers:

Then go read the book...

Hopefully the beer lasts untill you start up the powertools,
because that's when it gets really fun!


RecklessAbandon:

i suggest drinking the beer after using the power tools and not before. XD

Disturbed013:

Definitely read the book before you do anything else (well, yes fill the fridge first, but then right afterwards).

Crowquill:

Carefully plan out your control panel to NOT have your joysticks mounted at an angle in relation to the screen. IIRC, your MERCs cabinet was one of about 3 games ever produced that did this. Any chance we can get  a pic of the current control panel?

If it's already working perfectly with the intact JAMMA wiring harness, you could easily go the ArcadeVGA/J-Pac route so that you could always reverse it back and run JAMMA boards later on.

It should be a good cab for MAME. It's got a decent-sized control panel that you can easily fit 2 6-button layouts and a trackball in. Having a working 25" monitor isn't a bad start either.

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