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What's the cheapest you've made a MAME cabinet for?
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Stingray:
Like so many of the others here a lot of the components inside mine were freebies. I think it cost me about $100 to get mine running. I'll probably have another $200 altogether in new artwork and new plexi, but that's just extra stuff to make it pretty.

-S
rampy:
Building a Cheap Mame cabinet no problem... stopping at that and not upgrading it to $1k or $2k MAME cabinet is the trouble.

It's a crazy treadmill/escalator that you get on...  oooh a spinner, oooh light guns... oooh a bezel...oooh tinted glass... oooh star wars yoke... oooh new tmolding... oooooh high intensity leds... ooooh atari volcanoe start buttons.... ooooh custom marquee printing... ooooh processor upgrade to play .chd games... oooooh sears or bitstrip autosensing powerstrip to startup with one button... ooooh new oscar products... oooh new randyt keywiz products... ooooh new ultimarc joysticks... ooooh cheap trackball flood on ebay.. ooooh ooooh ooooh oooh ooooh *explode*

And that doesn't include tools, paint, and knick knacks from home depot =P

FWIW I started my cabinet really cheap... free donor cabinet from arcade warehouse, 100 dollar 21" (after shipping) ebay monitor o' doom, 23 bucks for two sidewinders, 20 bucks for 2 superclone sticks and 20 buttons from x-arcade auction... some misc wire paint scrap plywood etc laying around... "extra" pc laying around (celery 300@550)
so basically a couple hundred bucks but factor in that I had geek/PC parts and stuff laying around

*shrug* good luck!

rampy
nipsmg:
Rampy makes a good point.. HOME DEPOT MADE OUT LIKE A BANDIT on this project..

Dammit  >:(.

Home Depot should donate 1% of their profits to BYOAC if half of you spent the way I did in that store for arcade projects..

oooooh hand held belt sander, oooh new jigsaw, ooooooh new 18V cordless drill, oooooh new circular saw, oooooh t-nuts, oooooh flourescent fixtures, ooooh drill bit sets, oooooh router....

--NipsMG  ;D
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