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First time cabinet owner!
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.