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Vor][ex:
Ok so i guess im new to THIS forum, but ive been freqenting a few others, and looking on here but never posting I know how wrong that was.. but it seemed that all the answers were being given pretty nice!

I have to give a MASSIVE thanks to Chris from OZSTICK.. seriously if your ever going to buy stuff or you need advice seek him out you wont get better advice anywhere , super friendly, patient and a generally great guy to deal with..

once again thanks to all who helped!

Enjoy guys.

Phew what a long project that consumed my time.. ALL my time!


Ok so, I finally got around to posting some photo's.

I have to thank all you guys for giving me adivce on the front end.. Although I feel like I was doing it all alone ( as in making the thing! ) I

Ok so the 1st few are simply of my control panel..

I think its all pretty self explanitory.. :
The only thing that annoyed me is I cant get a great photo with the LED lights going! But i did my best !

Im very pleased with how the project turned out.. I would like to hear your comments :













Just before the buttons went in : Some photos dont show the level of quality of the paint work : but in this photo you can see from the reflection of the table cloth, its like a car !




Some of the features of my Mame Unit are :

Fully sorted 3000 + ROMs in 18 Seperate directories, all uniquely skinned.

Each of the scrolling text is unique to the skin also also the background music, in theme with the genre.

Coin doors wired up to accept 20 cents for credits.
( I heard someone ask how to simulate a real doin drop sound.. just do what I did, and simulate the real thing, have a box FULL of coins! when it drops in thats what it sounds like "clink"


Pinball flippers and working Authntic plunger. In fact the plugher is also calibrated to only work on a pressure system, eg : how far you pull it back is how hard it fires. ( I think most people do this )

Street FIghter 2 Layout, with Neo Geo button config, and all buttons remapped to work in this config

Act Labs light gun, Modified Paint and altered the trigger button to be smoother.

Flight Stick, I also rewired the trigger button on the Joystick to work in with the games and the i-pac.




Jukebox 10,000+ songs


Light Gun :




Light gun Holster  and Gun in action .


Pinball :




I thought I would also put in some of the construction pics ( only a few )
I do have plenty of the build process but by now I think we have seen how a cab gets done !






And for youki and hawkxp, they wanted to see some of the work on the front end :

One thing I didnt include in the phot'os, the scrolling text down the botton reads all differnt things for each game genre. I also edited in photoshop the buttons and added new button configs, a plungers for pinball a lightgun icon for the gun games, The jukebox ect... so its not just words !



When you 1st turn it on you have this as your Main menu :




1980s Classics :




Action :



Adventure :



Arcade Classics :



Beat 'em Ups :


Bizarre:



Fighting :



Military:



NeoGeo:


Old school :



Platform games :



Pinball :



Puzzle :



Racing:


Scrolling Shooters:


Run and Gun shooters:


Lightgun Games :



Sports :


Street Fighter 2 Series.
For those interested, I had an old SF2 Arcade machine that died.. I sadsly miss that old cab! Hence this project was born.. I always LOVED SF2, I was only 13 when it was relesed and I couldnt get enough of it.. I cannot beleive now I have every version ever made, so I dedicated an entire sub Dir to it !





Mame Jukebox, If you look close, i photoshopped up a mame logo into the Jukebox.. Well I like it :)







Well guys thats about it.. I dont think I can be stuffed uploading anymore . I enjoyed this project alot..
If anyone wants more photo's of certain things.. or more details.. Juyst ask in here.. I will look over for your comments in the next few days..

many thanks to everyone. !

ENjoy.. and yes Im INSAIN IN the MAME Brain!

javeryh:
Very very very nice.  Wrong forum, but very nice.   ;)

I like how you sorted everything - that seems to be my biggest sticking point as far as making my cab and gamelist managable...

Awesome job!!   :cheers:

tomsurfnj:
Your machine looks great!!!!  How come no trackball or spinner? How did you do that pinball machine plunger? What frontend did you use? It looks awesome.

Tom K.

arcadefever:
 :cheers:

Very nice,

you shloud move it to the project section ...

well done  :notworthy:

Fozzy The Bear:
Superb looking cabinet. Very nice quality of finishing there. Well Done.

I'd be very interested to hear exactly how you built your pinball plunger system and how it detects how far back it has been pulled and how it then sends that information to the PC.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

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