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Fozzy The Bear:


--- Quote from: SuperShadowRyan on December 04, 2007, 05:42:50 pm ---long story short: a cheap home-built VF2 cab.

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If you want a dedicated machine like this, then it's MUCH cheaper to buy a real one than to build one from scratch.

Personally I don't think that you really know what you want.  I think you'll find that you get bored with a dedicated machine very quickly. It doesn't sound like you plan on having or collecting multiple machines.

The very first thing you should do is to buy Saint's Book "Project Arcade" and read read read. Then come back here and ask us specific questions when you have a problem to solve. At the moment it's all a bit in the air and not defined enough.

Building a machine from the ground up around a dedicated board is both expensive and difficult to achieve. I don't think you quite realise, how expensive......  You can certainly forget $250.  If you build a dedicated from the ground up you'll be looking at more like $700 to $1000.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

Jack Burton:

Yep, everything that has been said is right and I would like to add one more thing:

You should probably find  a cheap cabinet near where you live, something under 100$.  You can then add a tv, pc, and controls for a good MAME cab.  This will let you get used to the idea of owning an arcade machine.  That is, the ordeal of moving the thing, installing controls, wiring, etc. 

SuperShadowRyan:


--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on December 04, 2007, 07:03:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: SuperShadowRyan on December 04, 2007, 05:42:50 pm ---long story short: a cheap home-built VF2 cab.

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If you want a dedicated machine like this, then it's MUCH cheaper to buy a real one than to build one from scratch.

Personally I don't think that you really know what you want.  I think you'll find that you get bored with a dedicated machine very quickly. It doesn't sound like you plan on having or collecting multiple machines.

The very first thing you should do is to buy Saint's Book "Project Arcade" and read read read. Then come back here and ask us specific questions when you have a problem to solve. At the moment it's all a bit in the air and not defined enough.

Building a machine from the ground up around a dedicated board is both expensive and difficult to achieve. I don't think you quite realise, how expensive......  You can certainly forget $250.  If you build a dedicated from the ground up you'll be looking at more like $700 to $1000.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

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yeah, but until I am sure I am going to be able to dedicate time to this, I wont spend any money. Can I just hook up different PCB's to the cab? One PCB at a time? I only play fighters, and Virtua fighter 2 doesnt work on mame. Many of the games I want Do not work on mame.

SuperShadowRyan:


--- Quote from: megaultrasuper on December 04, 2007, 07:11:08 pm ---Yep, everything that has been said is right and I would like to add one more thing:

You should probably find  a cheap cabinet near where you live, something under 100$.  You can then add a tv, pc, and controls for a good MAME cab.  This will let you get used to the idea of owning an arcade machine.  That is, the ordeal of moving the thing, installing controls, wiring, etc. 

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Could I get a Cab with a monitor already installed? thats all the REALLY, REALLY, REALLY hard work done. The rest is art, controls and hooking things up.

mccoy178:

These threads bring a smile to my face.  Take your time kid.  It's like taking a flight on an airplane, you can wish you were getting there faster, but it's still going to take the same amount of time.  I have the general feeling that if you don't buy an already finished cabinet, you will need to start at a much more simple level and put some time into this.  There is no way to do this overnight.  Also, I would strongly suggest using mame and researching if Virtua Fighter is emulated in any of the consoles like Dreamcast or PS1.

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