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| Sir Auros:
Either converted an existing cabinet or built one from scratch. Just interested in seeing what the cheapest price anyone here has built one for. |
| AlanS17:
Breakdown: Data East (Bad Dudes) cabinet with coin door $50 monitor $150 controls $35 computer (free) j-pac $60 misc parts $50 speakers $50 That's just materials, though. I did buy new bits and tools. I didn't include these in the price, tohugh. I'll have them from now on and can use them for anything else. But I probably spent a LOT on tools... Didn't keep track. Otherwise I have about a $400 machine! ;D I should call it BudgetMAME (Of course, they've never finished and upgrades are in the works... more $$$) |
| CthulhuLuke:
My cabinet's been suuuper cheap to get a playable copy. Although if I ever buy a new PC and a new TV for it, the price will jack up another 500 probably -__- but that won't be until I stop being a bum. No game cabinet - Free Working Happs Coin Door - Free 17" Pc Monitor - Free 300mhz server computer with 12gb hard drive - Free Ghouls N Ghosts Marquee - $13 Trackball w/usb mouse interface - $150 2 joysticks 26 pushbuttons ~ $ 80 I-pac - $60 2 MadCatz Psx Pads - $12 Wires and quick disconnects - $20 Dreamcast + 50 backups - *previously owned* Psx - to - DC convertors ~ $30 *previously owned* Cheap Melamite wood - $15 Dreamcast VGA adapter - $10 Total - about $ 350 Well actually the only things I paid for was the Ipac, the marquee, and the dreamcast vga adapter. Everything else I got for my b-day and christmas, including all the wires and solder. So I'd say at most I myself have spent 100 bucks on my cabinet and it's fully working with PC and Dreamcast. The price will go way up when I finally get a TV with s/video input and a nice 1ghz computer to put in there, and make sure the case is nice and small so that I can shove it all in and put the coin door in place. Once I do that *haha, it won't be for a LONG time, probably not until I move out or something* I'll close it all up again, with the monitor glass over it and everything, and have it be better than before. PS: how did I get all that free shiat, be friendly. I just got to be pretty good friends with this arcade manager, and I got 2 japanese arkanoid spinners, 2 coin doors *spliced them together to make one working coin door*, and an entire free cabinet with a power supply in it. The server came from a friend who had like 3 of em, but they're 50lbs which is bs, and they are SUCH a pain to move. The pc monitor was my bro's old monitor, and it works great. http://www.geocities.com/cthulhuluke/Cabinet/updatepics.html if you're too lazy to search my site for the link of pure pics. -Luke |
| anthony691:
--- Quote from: CthulhuLuke on May 11, 2003, 06:07:47 pm --- Dreamcast + 50 backups - *previously owned* --- End quote --- I am going to think that you mean 50 backup Dreamcasts, and NOT pirated games? J/K |
| paigeoliver:
If you look very carefully you can make a working mame cabinet for under $100. First you must get a cabinet for no more than $25. And it MUST have usable controls on it. $25 15" Pc monitor - Find one at the thrift store. $10-$15 PC speakers (Used) $5 Gamepad for hacking $5 (Used or new) That leaves you with $50 to buy a cast off Pentium MMX era computer that should be able to run quite a few games. Now this won't be a GREAT Mame cabinet, but it will work. Add $75 to $100 to get a decent 19" display and it will be MUCH better. If you can find a 13" cocktail case with controls and glass intact then that 14"-15" PC monitor will be all you will need. |
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